Yeah I Wrote This!

So Koed Smith labelled Mr. Ingraham a racist! Yet Mr. Smith suggests that by implying that he may be of Haitian decent is ‘disparaging’ and ‘ill-conceived.’ I guess it depends on how one interprets his statment, one can safely assume that Mr. Smith believes that being of Haitian decent is degrading. But we on Bahamas Issues never assume!

Nevertheless, to ensure that he never again should be called HaItian…Mr. Koed Smith digged up his entire family tree, tracing himself all the way back to Africa. Aparently, Mr. Smith is from the Baracau tribe, (anyone heard of that one?), he also gave dates of birth of his grand parents etc. Was there a need? (apparently, there existed doubt, so I guess there was a need). Perhaps. Now, the question is: is there now a need to reinvestigate these so called truths. Apparently, these facts were so important to the Bahamian populace, that he had to bring them up in our honourable House. My God, we have petty children playing in our House. Where are the parents?

But I conclude with this, it is true that Mr. Smith is educated. In fact, he is one of the better educated parliamentarians we have in the House. Moreover, Mr. Smith has a huge vocabulary, and can in fact, play vocabulary acrobat with the English Language. That being said, how in the world did he come up with calling Mr. Ingraham a Racist? Couldn’t he have found a better choice of word. Did Mr. Ingraham indicate that he does not like Turks Islanders or Haitians? More so, did Mr. Ingraham ever stated outrighly to Mr. Smith, “Bey, Koed, you is an ole HaItian.” Hmm, it just seems as if Mr. Smith has some skeletons in his closet, he trying to clean up. Or is he just scared because he realizes that he has a tad more African features than the ordinary Bahamian? Well Mr. African Baracau?