newsworthy - op ed
" it's like choosing between Sands and Kalik "
focus on your goals + don't feed the trolls
Forward... check! Upward... I guess you can say that! Onward... second by second, yeah! Together... GTFOH!
We marched to Rawson Square recently, hoping for some clarity. We were hoping for a real revolution, a movement of Bahamians, from every walk of life, creed and color. We got something like that.
Once again the disenfranchised, unless beckoned by a carrot stick (money, food, liquor) did not show their faces. We wanted them, however. We wanted to stand next to them and with them, like we do randomly at the Fish Fry, or unassumingly at Junkanoo.
Let's be honest. We're talking about the have nots, whom we often disregard, placate and wave off, marching with the haves. Will the twain ever meet?
I've seen them put together. I've seen the hired crowds from back corners of Quackoo Street try pointlessly to meld with the middle class millennial - oil and water.
This is the separation the haves built. The political elite created this divide for their purposes - you have got to keep some of them ignorant.
But they are not ignorant. They are not aloof to the dangerous effects of a credit downgrade - someone explained that sh*t to them in some real layman's terms. They know when politicians lie to them - even if they can't read the paper, there's a corner pundit who will open that conversation over a Guinness or a Hennessy.
Even the middle class is suffering from a political wedgie, with party politics stretched so firmly through their *ss cracks that they can't poop without permission. Reminds me of prison. Maybe it is.
The over-the-hill billy desperately seeks the attention of his politician for a handout and a job. The Mid-class man desperately seeks a little political favour. The difference is one will get what they want, while the other gets ignored. One has the means to barter, while the other only means to matter.
That's why the "We March" movement was and is so important. It sought to bring everyone together. But there will always be the political troll that speaks the angry language of the disenfranchised - in lumbers Bradley Roberts.
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