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Dennis Dames Responds to Nassau Guardian's Editorial Mitchell's Citizenship Warning was Unhelpful
By Dennis Dames
Nov 17, 2014 - 5:18:03 PM
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 publicly
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 which affects
our progress as one people.
Yours etc,
Dennis Dames
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