Are you suggesting we need a Bahamian Magna Carta?

The bahamian people are statis at best , beleving that govrnment is the solution to all societal ills / sometimes even personal problems …… herein lies the foundation that all preceeding wayward thinking and actions take place – with regard to the attainment self sufficiency, self reliance, mental enlightenment …… hhmm …..”if only gov can solve my problems -why should I seek resolution to my problems elsewhere ?” True liberty starts first with the understanding of oneself!! through self analysis – the latter can only occur absent the view that one is not central of his survival.

The change – you seek , as you probably are aware of can only come about from the death to a new way of processing thoughts in the mind. A new way of thinking must exist and must start with the new generation through the home, school , churches and echoed by government courts and social organizations.

We need constitutional reform – for a new Bahamas in its own character, tone, stance , courage and steadfast progressiveness of and for the people of the nation – with further allegence and loyalty to just cause and rights wherein making each person the center piece of his / her own God given right to survival thereof absent the allegence to a Crown, Governement or Corporation……..Freedom and rights for all through the divine rights and will of our creator.

This should be the preamble of such a reformed / restrategized constitution!!

Sometimes it’s hard to make the change. That’s why revolutions can be effective.

Our biggest problem here in The Bahamas is that we have never taught our citizens how to respect the nation, its whole history, its place in the world, and have never given Bahamians a good reason to respect themselves. White Bahamians are affected differently in this scenario than black Bahamians, of course; white people everywhere have at least the hierarchy of civilization as imagined by the expansionist Europeans to bolster their self-conceptions. Black Bahamians, on the other hand, have countered that hierarchy with little more than rhetoric. The truth, in my opinion, is that we have created our own reality here in The Bahamas, white and black alike and together (of course I speak as someone who stands in between the two, so my perspective is, in most meanings of the term, coloured by my personal heritage), and it’s a pretty astonishing one. But we have not told our own collective story well enough or with enough respect for it to mean very much at all.

Our self contempt therefore is inherited from the view of the world that made colonialism possible for decent Europeans to support — the idea that the rest of the world “needed” Europe to conquer and civilize it. Most of us are not included in that vision. Where we are most certainly and persistently to blame is that in forty years (in the Bahamas) and in fifty years (in too much of the rest of the postcolonial world) we have not worked as hard on creating our own truer vision of our selves as the imperialists worked on creating the vision that we all secretly still share: that white is right, brown could hang around, and black should still hang back.