By Dennis Dames
I have read the Nassau Guardian’s editorial of Monday, November 17,
2014, entitled: Mitchell’s citizenship warning was unhelpful. Firstly,
the words of Ms Daphne Campbell, a Florida state representative were
nationally offensive and troublesome to most Bahamians when she called
for tourists and businesses to boycott The Bahamas over our country’s
immigration policies. Secondly, to add insult to injury, Ms Jetta
Baptiste, a naturalized Bahamian of Haitian descent, who presently lives
in the USA, agreed publically with Ms Campbell. This further inflamed
Bahamians; and it was a devastating mistake on Ms Batiste’s part -- in
my opinion.
The citizenship warning was in order, in my view, as no one really knows
how far persons are prepared to go in order to be heard on the issue of
illegal immigration in The Bahamas. Ms Baptiste is in her rights to
express her perspective; but she needs to understand that we Bahamians
have feelings and she has hurt so many with her concurrence with Ms
Campbell – a foreigner. Ms Baptiste has created many lifelong enemies in
The Bahamas. So, it might be in her best interest to consider
citizenship in another country.
The Guardian’s editorial focused on the rights of an individual to
express oneself under the law. It did not talk about a loose and
ungrateful tongue, and the damage which is instigated by it. Ms Baptiste
has unwittingly revoked her own Bahamian citizenship by supporting evil
and disgusting foreign elements against the Bahamian people and nation
-- in a very damning fashion.
Let’s face it, we are not fighting a war against government immigration
policy detractors as The Nassau Guardian might feel. Our fight has more
to do with the internal chronic disunity among us Bahamians, and our
political gangster mentality that affects our progress as one people.
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