by Rick Lowe
A couple weeks back Mr. John Marquis wrote about an interview with Mr. Chauncey Tynes Sr. and allegations about Sir Lynden Pindling, the so called Father of the Nation.
The Insight article has sparked controversy among supporters of the PLP who suggest that Mr. Marquis should not be writing these things about Sir Lynden, particularly as he is a foreigner.
All this lead to a protest by Mr. Paul Moss and Mr. Ricardo Smith outside the offices of The Tribune where Mr. Lincoln Bain of Controversy TV interviewed the two of them and several "protesters".
As The Tribune keeps reminding us, they report the news, they don't make it.
But it's a shame that today, some 51 years after majority rule, colour or racism is such a big issue in the minds of so many of us.
Mr. Tynes is a Bahamian, and former associate of Sir. Lynden Pindling's, so the colour of Mr. Marquis skin, or where he comes from is irrelevant. It is up to us to decide the validity of Mr. Tynes statements or not.
Unfortunately a few of our politicians continue to make symbolism over substance their modus operandi.
It's a pity.
Enjoy the videos below.
Controversy TV Part One
Controversy TV Part Two
Controversy TV Part Three
Typical Pindling tactic, through out the race card,unfortunately, it works among a lot of people so it is used often.
It is unfortunate that it takes a foreigner, although I dislike what that moniker has come to mean, to point out the obvious fact that the man was no saint.
Did he do some good? Perhaps.
Did he accept payoffs from known drug dealers? Perhaps.
Point is we are not ready to ask hard questions of ourselves, nor are we willing to deal with the human realities and failings of our people be they children, brothers, clergy, kith and kin or leaders.
We are as yet unable to look at problems in abstract and follow a trail to the root cause of a problem or situation.
We shelter thieves, turn blind eyes, borrow endlessly, follow fools and avoid the piper like the plague.
We cannot face the truth, and as such do not learn from our mistakes.
Therin lies the crime against ourselves.
I think it would take at least two to three generations to turn it around, certainly not in my lifetime.
I think Bahamians need to treat their own with much more respect especially to Sir Lynden Pindling who is the founding father. He may have messed up in the passed but that was the past. What leader has not messed up somehow.
There is no doubt that Sir Lynden deserves to be at the pinnacle of the modern history of The Bahamas, but as he gets credit for the good he did, like the rest of us he was not perfect and we should not leave that out depending on the discussion.