You really honestly and truly do not get it ...do you!?
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And further you show your arrogance by saying "Most folks don't even know where it is"...can you be more demeaning and degredative.?


Well.....go and ask around then, you'll find out!

You really honestly and truly do not get it ...do you!?
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And further you show your arrogance by saying "Most folks don't even know where it is"...can you be more demeaning and degredative.?


Well! If the wall is that important why dont you start a movement to save it as a national monument - you could build a wall around it!!!:)

Well! If the wall is that important why dont you start a movement to save it as a national monument - you could build a wall around it!!!:)

this isnt funny and you wont even apologise for your crass nature...I spoke to my mommy about it last night and she didnt even wanna talk about it...I guess it brings back too much memories of what it went...

this isnt funny and you wont even apologise for your crass nature...I spoke to my mommy about it last night and she didnt even wanna talk about it...I guess it brings back too much memories of what it went...

I was not trying to be funny, well maybe a bit. But truly, if the wall is that important it should be saved as a part of our history. The younger generations do not know about it, let alone where it is. You yourself admitted that only a few days ago you recognized part of the wall you did not know was there.

I was not trying to be funny, well maybe a bit. But truly, if the wall is that important it should be saved as a part of our history. The younger generations do not know about it, let alone where it is. You yourself admitted that only a few days ago you recognized part of the wall you did not know was there.

this isnt funny and an apology is in order...your trying to joke about a difficult ghastly and offensive part of bahamian history and you just expect us to "carry along smartly" I always knew the wall was there...as Im sure many "younger generation" know the same... I look up the road and always see it troo my corner I just never knew why it was there...my mommy good friend even live right by it...I wonder who built it blac labourers?...its amazing we allowed this winter resident to build something to block Bahamians out of viewing or country and this is still happening today...boy I tell you the more things change the more they remain the same...

for cryin out loud, all you got to worry about is what someone said about an old wall ..?? man its probably mostly rotted into the ground or full of urine like everything else around Nassau .. Geezus people getting kill and ting .. lawd yah mussee get it good ..

this isnt funny and an apology is in order...your trying to joke about a difficult ghastly and offensive part of bahamian history and you just expect us to "carry along smartly"
Until someone can tell me, rationally, why the wall was such a big deal - no apology will follow.
I always knew the wall was there...as Im sure many "younger generation" know the same... I look up the road and always see it troo my corner I just never knew why it was there...my mommy good friend even live right by it...I wonder who built it blac labourers?...its amazing we allowed this winter resident to build something to block Bahamians out of viewing or country and this is still happening today...boy I tell you the more things change the more they remain the same...

As you say, we still have walls, big ones all over the place! Would you have all walls removed so people could wander over private property at will?

Until someone can tell me, rationally, why the wall was such a big deal - no apology will follow.
As you say, we still have walls, big ones all over the place! Would you have all walls removed so people could wander over private property at will?

now you sound self-righteous...suck my teet

now you sound self-righteous...suck my teet

Self-righteous? Tafadhali! Tafadhali! Tafadhali! You know I have apologized before when people show me the facts! (You have done it once or twice.) But if your argument about the value of the wall is to call me names then I guess you have no case.

PS Like the way you ducked my question about removing all walls. :)

Self-righteous? Tafadhali! Tafadhali! Tafadhali! You know I have apologized before when people show me the facts! (You have done it once or twice.) But if your argument about the value of the wall is to call me names then I guess you have no case.
PS Like the way you ducked my question about removing all walls. :)

there were attempts to remove the wall some 10 years ago...it was decided not to by government...the wall is historic...it marks a sad time in our history...

Wow, very interesting thread. I didnt realize such a symbolic wall (although i kinda think they all mean the same thing ....more or less) existed. I will have to go and see it when i return. Any historical information available on the wall anywhere (web, new articles, etc)?

well they really cant do nothign bout the bnoise people make noise everywhere...tell us the story about the pool incident...I remember doing something like that when I was small..it was innocent...
...there is a reason why island people arent hyped at all about beachfront property...we know when the big one come it taking you and the house with it...:taped2:
but quietly I want the beach view...in Exuma though our house is a "bit inland"...if we stand up on the deck we can see the ocean... so pretty and sea green/turquoise blue...when the tide come in, on a bad day I know ya friends them have a fit


My father is from Farmers Hill Taff! Are you in Exuma allot? I think God lives there. I love living near the water no matter the potential threat of a hurricane. You only live once, you might as well soak up the sea view. In fact in Exuma the most entertaining thing for me to do is sit back with a Graycliff cigar and watch the ocean do it's thing..it never stops.

there were attempts to remove the wall some 10 years ago...it was decided not to by government...the wall is historic...it marks a sad time in our history...

Canewry, you seem to have a level head. Please tell me what it is/was about the wall that that upsets so many? True it was a big but one could get around it by going north or south. True, one could get shot for trying to climb it (that still happens today - a guy was shot a few years ago for trying to take fruit from a man's yard.)

Was it the that wall that was so upsetting or was it the man that lived behind the wall or the society that allowed it to be built? (Keep in mind we have big walls now that keep as from the beach. Mr. Collins wall was not near the sea.)

So, fill me in, if you would be so kind.:)

What I learned (not so long ago) is that a cirtain Mr. Collins owned such a large plot of land in the time of the Loyalists and, like so many others, built a border wall. And such remnants of the wall like the arch (the only remnant I know of and have seen) still stands today.

Perhaps others used it as something different...I don't know.

Well.....go and ask around then, you'll find out!


No. You are missing the point about the sentiment.
1. Do not make it sound as if people are unable to find out if they want to.
2. Do not make it seem as if, because people can not readily identify it, the notion of "segregation" and the folk lore passed down by the reason for the wall is silly and moot.

We do not need to take a ride on a slave ship, to understand its historic importance.
CG needs to take a course in civil discourse, because he sounds really stupid right up to now. All of this, I have been telling the board for quite some time now...and am glad people are seeing through this type of sentiment. He is "typical" sometimes, and it is very troubling to say the least.
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