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Mar
31
Article 23
March 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I’ve been thinking about yesterday’s post. I’ve been puzzling over the 23rd Article of the Constitution, the Article on Freedom of Expression. I’m not entirely sure that it renders the actions of the Censorship Board necessarily unconstitutional. Rather, it creates a grey area, a kind of no-man’s (or everyman’s) land of potential [...]
Mar
30
Censorship and our constitution
March 30, 2006 | 1 Comment
 Perhaps I should call this our constitution, full stop.
I had a conversation today in which one of the participants (I don’t think I’m really at liberty to call names) raised the point that he found the media’s preoccupation with the banning of Brokeback Mountain disproportionate. His concern was that there was a report [...]
Mar
29
And something to think about
March 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment
when asserting the Christianity of our oh-so-fallen nation:
the kind of Christianity we tout so fanatically — legalistic, judgemental, and beam-pointing — has far more in common with the Pharisees and even the Mark of the Beast than with Christ.
It’s amazing what you can find on the internet these days.
Mar
29
Not changing the subject too completely
March 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment
And we think Brokeback Mountain is something to worry about.
More — for the non-squeamish among us.
Mar
28
On Hate
March 28, 2006 | 3 Comments
A band of youths barricade the small house in which a Haitian man lives, and set fire to it so that he burns to death inside. Two young men grab a third from a bar, take him out to the country, beat him with a pistol because he is a homosexual, and tie him [...]
Mar
28
Censorship and the Breaking of Backs
March 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I don’t plan to write a whole lot today about this, as it’ll probably inspire an article at some point. But the decision — if it could be called a decision — not to allow Galleria Cinemas to play Brokeback Mountain was censorship if there ever was such a thing.
For a fuller [...]
Mar
26
The Universal Black Constant
March 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment
So I’m browsing Nalo Hopkinson’s blog, and I find this link to Kwasi’s Ramblings of an African Geek, and I come across this post. It’s definitely worth a read.
Mar
25
Human Rights and the Intellectual
March 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment
While we artists and intellectuals are fighting our own battles for recognition and respect at home, it’s important to remember and recognize the central and crucial role that artists and intellectuals play and have played in the global battle for human rights. Even here in The Bahamas, several of our intellectuals and artists have been [...]
Mar
9
On Being Rich
March 9, 2006 | 1 Comment
There was a time, a couple of decades ago, when young Bahamians used to talk about Development and Progress and all kinds of things that were easy to say and hard to lift off the ground if you really thought about them. The world was different then. There were choices you thought you [...]
Mar
2
On Impossible Dreams
March 2, 2006 | 4 Comments
This week, I want to write about dreams. It seems to me that we’re a country that has given up on dreaming. Oh, we talk a good game. Our favourite pastime is talking – whether it be talking to God, talking to our pastors, talking to our congregations or constituencies or followers. [...]