From the monthly archives:

June 2003

On Consideration

30 June 2003

When I was sixteen, I had the opportunity to spend two years at the Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific. These were revolutionary years for me. The college was founded on principles of internationalism, something about which we learn very little in this country as a rule, and it had lofty ideals: [...]

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On Oral Culture

23 June 2003

Have you ever been to a funeral, been handed the lovely funeral booklet with the dead person’s photo on the front and the obituary inside, read that obituary to pass the time because you got to the funeral an hour early to ensure you got a seat, and then wondered why you had to sit [...]

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On Print and Power

16 June 2003

There’s an email making the rounds (I received it several months ago) entitled “Blacks Don’t Read”. Being Black, I read it. The general message of the email is simple and thought-provoking: that one of the reasons that African-Americans are still second-class citizens in their country is that they don’t read. The email isn’t talking about [...]

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On Culture

6 June 2003

Just recently I had the pleasure of teaching a young man who proclaimed that Wendy’s is as Bahamian as the Bamboo Shack. The reaction I get when I tell people about him is the same every time: a look of disbelief, a laugh, a scornful comment along the lines of “He mussee ain know who [...]

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