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Essays on Life

Thoughts on Independence

8 July 2008

I don’t know whether this is the best title for this post.  All I really wanted to do was to quote this paragraph from this post: “Say nothing of my religion,” Jefferson once said. “It is known to myself and my God alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; [...]

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Book Launch!

2 March 2008
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On Justice

20 January 2008

I’m a big fan of Law and Order — the television show’s that’s been running for almost twenty years.  I watch it religiously.  It never gets old. Recently I had the opportunity to watch a rerun I’ve seen dozens of times.  The thing is, I couldn’t remember what happened in it — I know what [...]

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On the Neighbourhood

5 October 2007

In Winston Saunders’ quartet of plays, The Nehemiah Chronicles, the main character, an old man who has remained in his neighbourhood throughout a number of decades, talks to an invisible reporter about the rise in crime around him and how he feels unsafe in the home where he once was secure. In the past he’s [...]

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On Self-Publication (a Meditation)

26 August 2007

Note: I took the blog entry I wrote last week and turned it into a proper essay for The Guardian. Here it is, for archival purposes. It’s been edited here and there for publication. I’m pleased to announce that I’m working preparing Essays on Life for publication in a series of books. The first one, [...]

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On Raisins and the Sun

21 August 2007

I’m sitting in Starbucks, listening to a jazz rendition of “Sponger Money”. I must admit it sounds good. And it feels good to hear an international take on a Bahamian song. But I’m also wondering a couple of things. The first one is what the thing is called. Is it called “Sponger Money” on the [...]

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On Images of Savages, Part Three

28 June 2007

Don’t tell me — the horse is almost dead, and there’s no sense in flogging it much more. I know. The thing is, while you may think that I’ve made my point about race and related subjects (several times over), there’s still one more contribution I’d like to make. I’d like to catalogue the images [...]

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On Images of Savages, Part Two

21 June 2007

The thing about writing about race and related stuff, it seems, is that it stimulates considerable discussion. I’m not at all sure that everybody who wants to say something has said it; but the number of comments I’ve received to my face and on the blogs where my essays appear suggest that there’s a need [...]

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On Images of Savages, Part One

13 June 2007

Recently I’ve been exploring the idea of race. It’s not because I want to cause trouble. It’s because I believe I don’t have much choice. Despite the happy-talk about there not being any real problem any more, ours is a society plagued by self-loathing. As “blacks”, we hate ourselves for being descended from enslaved Africans; [...]

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More On Why Race Matters

1 June 2007

Last week I wrote about why race matters in the twenty-first century Bahamas, and argued that unless we talk about our experiences as different human beings in this multiracial, hierarchical society, we will continue to relive old prejudices forever. This week, I want to talk a little about why race matters to me — a [...]

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