{"id":26047,"date":"2012-09-24T10:34:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=26047"},"modified":"2012-09-24T10:34:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:34:13","slug":"racism-rearing-its-ugly-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/09\/racism-rearing-its-ugly-head","title":{"rendered":"Racism Rearing Its Ugly Head?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Racism appears to have reared its ugly head at the Pilot House condominiums where expatriates may have had the audacity to request payment of what is owed, from Bahamians!<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it appears that the racism virus may have also surfaced at nearby Potter&#8217;s Cay where some hard-working Bahamians are reportedly being bullied by agents of oppression who are demanding payment of their rental debts.<\/p>\n<p>It should be understood that many Bahamians who may be deemed &#8220;special&#8221;, regard payment of their bills as being purely optional. This unreasonable expectation of payment from them is clearly a form of overt racism which must be stopped quickly before it spreads any further &#8211; perhaps even to the Straw Market or to Arawak Cay.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, we have an impartial legal system which is capable of dealing with such problems, as has already been demonstrated very well.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><strong>Ken W Knowles, MD<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><strong>Nassau, Bahamas<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><strong>September, 2012<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racism appears to have reared its ugly head at the Pilot House condominiums where expatriates may have had the audacity to request payment of what is owed, from Bahamians!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[93,104,430,163],"class_list":["post-26047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-corruption","tag-culture","tag-racism","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}