tigs, not to get into anything with you, but we're moving to a good place in the discussion, don't you agree? Finding a common ground and a common language.
railing at the site in general doesn't really help that, does it? Yes, your points (although somewhat exaggerated in their attempt to find fault) are valid, but you've made this point before.

Can we move along to how we can try to fix it?

So tigga,

Other than your usual "he didn't say that but I am going to twist, pull and spin it in away that makes him sound racist response," what do you think or how do you defend what I posted as my personal experiences in this island?  Was it my fault that at the age of 14 and younger I wanted to play sports all the time but was made to feel so unwelcome, not only by the children I played with, but by their parents as well?  

Do you think that whites don't go to local sporting events due to this constant harassment (yes it still happens, hence my experience just the other week watching my boy play cricket down in the east end) are racist or simply don't want to go to places where they are constantly ridiculed and harassed?

Do you condone and support this type of behavior/speech from your black Bermudian bretheren towards the whites of this island?  If so how can you defend the use of such vile language and behavior to a fellow Bermudian?  Especially since you are always claiming that you aren't racist yourself.

Do you have any personal experiences on this island where you have entered an establishment and have a white Bermudian tell you "black boy you ain't welcome 'round here?"  And please don't bring up the days of segregation as from what I understand you are not old enough to to remember those ignorant days (as is the same case with me).  If so when and where?

in regards to your grandfather's story the white man who apologised was no dount an ignorant **** back in the day.  So ignorant that he found it necessary to apologize.  People do change over time.  It definitely doesn't make him the "bigger man" than your grandfather who no doubt endured the wraths of the white man's ignorance decades ago.  But it does take a "big" man to realize the ignorance of ones ways/actions and admit to beign wrong.  Would you ever apologise for some of the nasty and unfounded racial rants/accusations that you made/make towards posters (that you don't know the first thing about) on thsi site and others?

bda fresh - i get ur point - like i've said i've seen how badly white kids weer treated at my school and other social situations - my point is that if we can agree that some blk men can be vicious is their sphere of influence then can't we assume that some white men are doing the same thing in theirs - as badly as u've been treated by blks in bda (robbed) - do u think that u have a blk counterpart who has been treated equally as badly albeit in different contexts

tigga ... isn't that like saying two wrongs make a right? ... this needs to stop and "both sides of the coin" need to do it.

Guilden, it's much simpler than that.  They come from someplace where accountants are paid very little by Bermudian standards.  When the US dollar was strong relative to the Canadian dollar firms were hiring Canadians because, simply put, they were cheap.  It was much less expensive than hiring people from elsewhere.  Now the Canadian dollar is strong so the accounting firms are looking farther afield for cheap labour.  It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with economics.

And yes it's justified.  Like it or not, you're worth what you negotiate.

Well, he needs to clean his ears a bit more often. He won't hear anything or admission from me because I am not guilty.

Plus, I don't do "Alford Pleas"........Also, if he's not hearing it, there are others that are turning a 'deaf ear'.

Don't hold or me me guilty of past sins of my forebearers. We all have them.

Gotta run....Obama needs me....stuk hup dee Vite Howes wiff Black Rum..............