Hmmmmmmmmm! An you said you have common sense?

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Hmmmmmmmmm! An you said you have common sense?
hold-on Marichal,different strokes 4 different folks,:hammer: Taffy is my e-pal dude:hammer: ok ok she don't know tho:taped2: ease-up:heartbeat

The whites..here had a chance..and blew it.
Instead of them getting on the bandwagon and paricipating, they chose to be anti plp...which at that time was anti bahamian.
They "especcially in Shirlea" made themselves outcasts...NOT US!
Those in camper down built their own "gated community"...WTF?
:dgi:
So get it right..the average Bahamian couldnt give a flying fart who or what you are..just as long as you dont stand in the way of the bank come pay day time.
:hammer:


the whites? the blacks?? The haitians????

what yall on tonight ...??

i know you aint saying a white Bahamian isn't an average Bahamian because he is white ... . as for Camperdown, its a mixed neighborhood, if you must call it by the color of a person's skin .. and Shirlea, who cares what goes down in that rat hole :D (ps. i used to live der at one time in my poe life)

Typical of the self-depreciating psyche of the Bahamian....'If it's white, it must be right!'
Has anyone thought about what the white elite of our country think of the average black Bahamian? And that the fear of that same average Bahamian is actually based in reality, a reality that many of us do not want to face up to: 'dey don't like us, dey tink we're boarish and unsophisticated. And the ones who don't tink like that...don't tink about us at all....to them we do not exist because we do not affect their favoured lives in no way.
My ire was raised to its limits last month while on Bay Street. We stoped in Pyfrom's (I beleive it's called). Here, in the middle of Nassau in 2005 blatent disgrace. Two white women one stuffy (Ms. Piggy) and about 40, the other suck (Olive Oyle) and abot 55. Both standing behind the area of the cash register. As we entered the shop, Ms. Piggy was laying into an employee for asking permission to run out to the bank before it closes. The employee was and elderly (50ish) black woman, standing there, eyes brimming with tears as her employer Ms. Piggy berated her with Olive Oyle giving encouragemnet. Telling here, even with patrons present, that she shoulda use her lunch time to go to the bank and not the company's time.
Now ordinarialy this would not be a big deal for me..but you should have heard their tone and seen the hurt in the employee's eye. And, when the employee - some 10 years older than the older of the two winches -answered "yes Maam" to her tormentor....well I was ready to buss!
We've always been taught to respect and honour our elders. It was obvious that these women did not get that lesson. Adding insult to injury was the fact the these women were the only ones allowed to handle cash at the busy shop. Like all a'we does teef! They even had a pre-teen doughter of Ms. Piggy cashing.....It just felt wrong and weird....
Nassauvians need to fix that issue of the Bay Street merchants....too many massas opressing folk....too many 'Yes Maam's!


Would this have upset you if all the persons were black?

To me, I interpret this as employer/employee relations and if you had a problem with the way the black lady was spoken to, then it should have been restricted to the above mentioned relationship. There are many companies that have black bosses and they speak to their employees in a like manner.
This isn't about race relations, this is about management style.

Personally, I agree with the white lady because the black employee should have used her personal time to make her errands. Why should any employee be allowed to make personal errands on the company's time, time for which the company is paying her.

As for the young girl being behind the register; first, employee theft is a major problem in The Bahamas, and second, it is not uncommon for small family-owned businesses to put family members in charge of the cash register or to elevate them to managerial positions. I know a small family-owned business on Kemp Rd, where only the owner, his wife, teen daughter, and teen son are allowed to handle the register, although they have other persons working for them. This is their right, that's their business.

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Would this have upset you if all the persons were black?
To me, I interpret this as employer/employee relations and if you had a problem with the way the black lady was spoken to, then it should have been restricted to the above mentioned relationship. There are many companies that have black bosses and they speak to their employees in a like manner.
This isn't about race relations, this is about management style.
Personally, I agree with the white lady because the black employee should have used her personal time to make her errands. Why should any employee be allowed to make personal errands on the company's time, time for which the company is paying her.
As for the young girl being behind the register; first, employee theft is a major problem in The Bahamas, and second, it is not uncommon for small family-owned businesses to put family members in charge of the cash register or to elevate them to managerial positions. I know a small family-owned business on Kemp Rd, where only the owner, his wife, teen daughter, and teen son are allowed to handle the register, although they have other persons working for them. This is their right, that's their business.



you digging this old post up .. darn, yep though, to some people everything is racially motivated or black this and white that, and those are the people I am just so really tired of .. they need to get a life.

You Bahamians are so wrapped up in this race issue thing that you can't see the forest through the trees. Globalization has changed everything forever. Every country is on their own now...so you better shape up or ship out. Besides, this black/white thing is so last century. Stop complaining. While you are all blaming this and that on the whites your country is going down the drain. It would be a joke if it weren't so sad.
White Boy


Well said!

the whites? the blacks?? The haitians????
what yall on tonight ...??
i know you aint saying a white Bahamian isn't an average Bahamian because he is white ... . as for Camperdown, its a mixed neighborhood, if you must call it by the color of a person's skin .. and Shirlea, who cares what goes down in that rat hole :D (ps. i used to live der at one time in my poe life)



No Rory....
Alls I am saying is that alot of them cut their own selves off from the process.

We didnt want them to make a gate in camper down..
we didnt want them to build their own lil village in the back of carlmicheal road
we didnt want them to go underground and make their own community..
they did it because they want to, so i do not feel sorry for anyone who cuts their own self off from our very fair process.

we are not that bad!
:cutie:

In all fairness,I feel some Bahamians are hypersensitve about racial issues because it has only been several decade since they have enjoyed self-rule.The sting of inequality is still easily remembered,therefore even the smallest slight can be interpreted as racial bias by a person who has been hurt before.The important thing is to never use it as an excuse for not trying to achieve success.

i dont think anyone is saying if it's white, its right! and i think very few of us spend our lives hoping to attain a 'seal of approval' or validation from our white peers! the fact is, we have an election coming up. it sad that the only 'debate' going on is about the colour of a candidate's skin. noone seems to care about qualifications, ambition, plan and leadership qualities. as a bahamian abroad, i used to find pride in telling people.."oh! we dont have any racial issues in my country! we all mixed up like conch salad!" so sad to see i was wrong.
also, i read your little story about your encounter on bay street...TWICE. what does that incident have to do with race? if i had a business, you better believe ALL PERSONAL RUNS BETTER BE DONE ON YOU OWN TIME. any successful bussiness person would tell you, you dont let your staff run free. and you know how some bahamians are, they taking lunch AND want leave early! WTF? no buddy. also, about the teen daughter operating the cash register...again nothing to do with racism - in my view. it could be that the other lady couldnt operate the register? and so what! you may say she could learn...but really in a country where (apparently), employee theft is a real issue, i would have my daughter on the register too!



Oh look at the foriegners dem tryin' ta make we believe we racist like dem. Watch da move yall... Watch wat dey sayin'... Sum a dem ga insist dey one of us...

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In all fairness,I feel some Bahamians are hypersensitve about racial issues because it has only been several decade since they have enjoyed self-rule.The sting of inequality is still easily remembered,therefore even the smallest slight can be interpreted as racial bias by a person who has been hurt before.The important thing is to never use it as an excuse for not trying to achieve success.


It is not that bad as we make it...
in fact, the whites here just do not have anything in common the way we do.
they talk different so they congregate different!

Its just the way it is, but we have no problem witht anyone having or getting something!
:hammer:

Oh look at the foriegners dem tryin' ta make we believe we racist like dem. Watch da move yall... Watch wat dey sayin'... Sum a dem ga insist dey one of us...
:gi:

Ya know Marco...if it was ever a time i agree with you, tis now!
:)

Here is real racism folks...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4737468.stm

Notice that the sick Europeans are the cause!!! (And I got this from their news, lol :angel: )

Lol! Please leave my family in Blair out of this.You know I didn't want CG to know that I have white relatives.

where in blair? big blair or little?

Typical of the self-depreciating psyche of the Bahamian....'If it's white, it must be right!'
Has anyone thought about what the white elite of our country think of the average black Bahamian? And that the fear of that same average Bahamian is actually based in reality, a reality that many of us do not want to face up to: 'dey don't like us, dey tink we're boarish and unsophisticated. And the ones who don't tink like that...don't tink about us at all....to them we do not exist because we do not affect their favoured lives in no way.
My ire was raised to its limits last month while on Bay Street. We stoped in Pyfrom's (I beleive it's called). Here, in the middle of Nassau in 2005 blatent disgrace. Two white women one stuffy (Ms. Piggy) and about 40, the other suck (Olive Oyle) and abot 55. Both standing behind the area of the cash register. As we entered the shop, Ms. Piggy was laying into an employee for asking permission to run out to the bank before it closes. The employee was and elderly (50ish) black woman, standing there, eyes brimming with tears as her employer Ms. Piggy berated her with Olive Oyle giving encouragemnet. Telling here, even with patrons present, that she shoulda use her lunch time to go to the bank and not the company's time.
Now ordinarialy this would not be a big deal for me..but you should have heard their tone and seen the hurt in the employee's eye. And, when the employee - some 10 years older than the older of the two winches -answered "yes Maam" to her tormentor....well I was ready to buss! and you said nothing to miss piggy and olive oil. I say you wrong to. bad things happen when good people do nothing.
We've always been taught to respect and honour our elders. It was obvious that these women did not get that lesson. Adding insult to injury was the fact the these women were the only ones allowed to handle cash at the busy shop. Like all a'we does teef! They even had a pre-teen doughter of Ms. Piggy cashing.....It just felt wrong and weird.... Ok so its a family buisness or something. That is not uncommon even in black family owed buisness.
Nassauvians need to fix that issue of the Bay Street merchants....too many massas opressing folk....too many 'Yes Maam's!

Yes Maam/sir is a sign of respect not slavery.