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It will be worth the time to study Walter’s brief odyssey into local politics to extract learnings;

David, Blogmaster
Walter Blackman,
Actuary and Social
Commentator Extraordinaire

If we are going to extract learnings, we need to look at the dots and connect them. I have reaped no success in politics to justify the writing of a book or my memoirs at this point in time, but there are a few revelations I can make exclusively on BU which would help Barbadians to understand the genesis of some incidents which extensively damaged Barbados, the lives of Barbadians, and the Barbados brand.

I do not know if this particular topic is the best place for me to start, but I am going to start. You, as blogmaster, have the right to package my writings and place them wherever you see fit.

I hope by taking this course of action that I will inspire other Barbadians who believe that they have a tale to tell to start doing so. William Skinner readily comes to mind.

The success of our oppressors stem primarily from the fact that they want to silence us and make us cower in fear. They want to make us feel that it is a sin for us to share our experiences. It is my deep-rooted belief that our shared experiences will help us to understand and appreciate each other more, and by so doing, will create a catalyst for change, however small.

These are my writings and I own them. I have attached my name to them so they are my intellectual property. I reserve the monopolistic right to use them as part of any book I decide to publish in the future.

Let me state, up front, that I have not been privy to any secrets created or held by any political party in Barbados, so it is impossible for me to divulge any. Almost all of the positions adopted by me arose out of deductive reasoning, or by analysis of events that stumbled into the public domain.


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273 responses to “Walter Blackman’s Political Insights”


  1. Correct Walter, HAVE NO INTEREST in mingling with the snobbish who’s who. Can’t be yourself around that lot. Always looking to impress. Too tiring for Donna.

    Never said I did not have problems with lawyers though. I just applied the mad woman pressure and solved them soon enough. They wanted to get rid of me. The only one I did not have a problem with was Hutson Linton. He was my father’s friend. Even waived some of his fees.

    Look, I know many of these people. All they need is for pressure to be applied. It is doable. But Bajans just talk. I am not the type to get people to follow me. They think I am crazy because I am different and march to the beat of my own drum, so I cannot start the activism. I’d be happy to join in when it starts.


  2. Really Donna…ya don’t need anyone to be an activist, i do my best work alone because the niga mentality in others turn me completely off…so i shed everyone, started alone and will finish it all off that way….the one thing ya can’t do is sit on the fence, it’ll never work, ya either an activist or ya are not, can’t have it both ways.


  3. “Anyone who worships a man because of his position is a dangerous agent of corruption.
    Stop the praise singing because people in positions must serve, they are not to be worshiped.”


  4. Wasn’t Nigel Barrow brought back by the Dipper?


  5. Male worship is loud and clear on BU
    Notice how fast the men protect each other against loud outburst and offensive language against women well with the exception of Hal
    On BU women can be the object of all kinds of name calling and the men like sissy would jump in haste to accommodate each other
    Reason why Walter can come on BU and pretend to be lilly white when his words have already condemn him
    Read the mens perspective of Walter which gives walter an altar ego and the go ahead to be an agent of leadership although Walter sexist opinions fails and falls short of the what woman expectations are of the male gender utterances about the female


  6. A TOTAL FRAUD…..worshipped by FRAUDS…in Barbados.

    “FRASER CAME HOME WITH A PhD IN CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, BUT HE KNEW NO BIOCHEMISTRY ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. WHILE SEEKING TO SHOW THAT A WHITISH BOY WAS SMARTY AND FIT FOR HONOURS, A BLACK STUDENT, WHO DID NOT KNOW ANY BETTER, WENT TO THE BOARD DREW THE CHEMICAL STRUCTURE OF THE DRUG AND EXPLAINED ITS OBVIOUS BREAK DOWN. THAT STUDENT SUFFERED IMMENSELY AS A RESULT.

    I CAN TELL YOU TOO OF THE RED SKINNED TRINIDADIAN LAD WITH A PhD WHOM THE WHITE LORD SIR HENRY FRASER GAVE HELL.”


  7. I have been the only person on BU who made my views known with disgust on Walter terminology of the female posterior
    David has now resort to blocking comments if the words “tb” are used
    David you are so wrong and now you have gone so far as trying to protect Walter from a wrong
    Men have always used females as the butt of jokes
    Womens movement have fought long and hard to put away false impressions and jokes about women
    Time u men wise up to such truths and shed that ole thinking of men always right and women are silly


  8. @ Mariposa

    The language is an indication of common decency, of their morals. When I call it the Bajan Condition I am attacked, but it flows from the very top to the bottom.
    The lawyers and doctors behave in much the same way as the boys under the tree – remember Kerrie Symmonds talking about horning during the last general election campaign? And he did not show the slightest bit of embarrassment.
    I once brought a friend of mine, a television journalist, to Barbados and in the process introduced her to a childhood friend of mine. Some time after, back in London, she rang me at work and asked if I had heard from my friend. I said no.
    She then told me she had heard from him and he was in London and wanted to hook up with her. It was the kind of jungle behaviour that is acceptable among some Barbadians. This man was a well known public figure. I also know of a case when a then magistrate who officiate at a wedding, spent the entire reception trying to get the bridge’s email address. You cannot make it up.
    I often see it in London among people who are out of Barbados, but Barbados is not out of them.

    .


  9. In all of my years on BU, I have never read where anybody, even those who are critical of the country, deemed it a hell hole or anything of that nature.What suggest that when putting pen to paper we all occasionally go overboard. I honestly think that they have been severely critical of the fact that after fifty six years of independence , there are still some basic matters that have been left undone or allowed to fall apart to accommodate a parasitic minority.
    If Barbadians were not a relatively contented people , they would be protesting every day in the streets. I don’t know if I tell my grandson , that there is racism every where or poverty every where so let us go to the beach and enjoy the day and don’t be negative, that I would have done him any favors or taught him anything.
    Furthermore, I really don’t know if a Barbadian in any part of the world being robbed blind by any professional can get his money back by just applying pressure. The ninety six year old gentleman, who lives in an North American city and has been trying to get his “papers” from lawyers for the last twenty years may have a very different view. At least when my friend , who visits him , and has been trying to assist with this predicament for at least fifteen years, including when going home on vacations, may have a different view.
    I would imagine that the world is all right with most of us who come on BU , even those who are deeply partisan, and perhaps that is why we can find the time to express ourselves with such frequency.
    Attempts to nullify facts remain the shortcomings of our people. I really don’t know that because I have not been lynched or shot by a police , that I must always bring the argument that there is police brutality or racism everywhere.
    But what I do know is, I have never met or known a Barbadian who hates Barbados or puts down Barbados for the fun of it. I have met and known Barbadians who criticize their country because I know that their love their country and I personally don’t go around pretending that I love it more than anybody else and I alone appreciate its natural beauty and what a beautiful thing it is to just some days eat a wonderful meal and drink a tall glass of lemonade under the shade of a tree and doze of . I think most of us have experienced that.
    I humbly suggest that we bitch and argue to make sure that other generations can have these simple pleasures. By the way, we need to remind poor Black people that people wait for operations and eye examinations and MRIs for three and four years everywhere. And that people turn on their taps and get brown water to drink or no water everywhere. That’s why I have never agreed with @Hal that we are a failed state and why I totally agree with much of @WURA states and I would put my head on the block that neither hates or loves Barbados less or more than any body else.
    Perhaps some believe we should all accept and fulfill the biblical philosophy that the poor will always be with us , enjoy ourselves and move on.
    Now, let me read the Nation newspaper and listen to Radio Barbados.
    A very pleasant Sunday to all and may all good things attend you and yours.

    Peace


  10. @William

    The Klu Klux Clan justified what they did for the love of country. What is your point again?

    #MAGA
    #apologist


  11. As has been your wont of late, misrepresenting my position. You sir, have gone over the deep end. I cannot help you. I shall just correct you on one point – if you look at the context within which my comments were made you will see that I was referring to pressure being applied not by individuals but by the masses through organised activism. If this is not the method you expect to bring change, kindly enlighten us as to your preferred method.

    As for WURA, I have no intention of getting into any stupid back and forth with the Wonder Woman.


  12. My cucumbers are more level-headed than the champions of the poor on this blog.

    Time to do something more productive and empowering than banging my head against BU brick walls.


  13. @ David
    I really have no point. I just writing like everybody else.
    Peace


  14. @ Donna
    An opposing position is just that. Should you think that I have directly misrepresented you, I sincerely apologise.
    I have described your contributions as “ balanced” . I don’t know if there is a better way to express how I view them.It makes no sense asking me to come up with suggestions or show what I would do. I have opinions like everybody else.
    You are just so free to attach any description to my views. Believe me there are sincerely welcomed.
    You would note that @Hal, @David @Pacha @ Walter and I “ get in to it times”, to me it’s just debate and ideas floating around. Nothing more. It’s never personal with me.
    Peace

  15. Carson C Cadogan Avatar

    MARIPOSA November 22, 6.38 pm

    Well Said.

    On this male dominated blog, it ok to curse, insult, denigrate and make women the butt end of “male jokes””. This charge is lead by the “honourable blog master”. He sets the standards. If you express a contrary thought and it against the Barbados Labour Party then you draw ire of the blog master .

    Everyone must be signing in the Barbados Labour party choir just like him.


  16. “As for WURA, I have no intention of getting into any stupid back and forth with the Wonder Woman.”

    Wahlossss! 🤣🤣


  17. The blogmaster always allow latitude on the blog. Can we get back to the substantive matter? If not the blogmaster will act.


  18. We are all adults here. Sex is part of life. We women take some shots at male genitals also. There are some men who go overboard. I don’t find that to be the majority.


  19. Bajan Doctors being picked or rejected on whether they have right or wrong skin sounds a tad harsh
    they must be Specialist Skin Doctors
    Left Wrong
    Right Skin
    March
    March
    March
    March
    Mash Down the Walls of Jericho
    Sing an Ethiopian Song All Day Long


  20. “We are all adults here. Sex is part of life. We women take some shots at male genitals also. There are some men who go overboard. I don’t find that to be the majority.”

    Joey Knox uses an algorithm to determine male and female as a percentage of probability
    a more accurate test is whether they have a penis or vagina


  21. In America the only crime that some people commit is being born Black in America, where they can give you a life sentence


  22. You have made this point many times on the blog yet you continue. Sometimes you have to wonder if some of you are brain dead.


  23. Just one more time. One more time.


  24. Fake outrage.
    There is nothing I hate more than fake outrage. I will have to search for the original comment but it did not alarm me then.

    However, I remember a few who blew it up to score political points. I do not recall mention of any race, but here you are introducing a racial component.

    Do you want to know what disgusts me. It is not the trembling, but the cheap and lewd gyrating botsies that can be found all over the internet after crop over.
    Not trembling, gyrating in a suggestive sexual and promiscuous manner. Trembling is an upgradeto that type of behavior. Be outraged at that and what
    I said.

    You want respect. Respect yourself and your age.

    Note: TheO don’t even want to be dog catcher, so he can tell it as it is


  25. “As for WURA, I have no intention of getting into any stupid back and forth with the Wonder Woman.”

    Donna…maybe if you spent 8 years on a blog and on other forums with on a useful mission, you too may take on the attributes of someone who actually works toward results, don’t have time for the wait and see attitude which is counterproductive to empowerment of the mind, our ANCESTORS ARE STILL WAITING…

    Fowl Enuff….. it’s the one with all the SELF-BUILT FIRES now running around trying in vain to put them all out with a little bucket of water while everyone else has DRUMS OF GASOLINE..

    …now that is the definition of a REAL Wonder Woman…trying to outwit everyone despite what she SET IN MOTION now on AUTOPILOT….her own doing…no one has to even use their brains to WATCH IT ALL COLLAPSE….free entertainment

    like ya got burnt too badly, lost most of ya fowl feathers ya mixing up things….ya may need medical help..


  26. @9:58. Sorry, was here typing on a phone and missed it.


  27. “I honestly think that they have been severely critical of the fact that after fifty six years of independence , there are still some basic matters that have been left undone or allowed to fall apart to accommodate a parasitic minority.”

    among other things, but this is not the forum to expound.


  28. In my haste I may have merged a few posts together.
    This mAy be an error on my part as I have searched for the phrase that triggered it and cannot find it…

    “I do not recall mention of any race, but here you are introducing a racial component.”

    If I am the one who introduced race into your statement then I apologize.


  29. i made a reply to hal about common decency and it was removed which gives further evidence of women living in a male dominated world and any effort by a woman to describe a male lewd and offensive behaviour would not pass the litmus test prescribed by the male gender
    which begs the question of David BU what is your haste to be a goal keeper for those whose actions fall short of decency
    Could be that who the dog love the dog show preferential treatment


  30. I think even the apologists for the BDLP would agree that Barbados could be a better place.

    At this time, discussion of who is to blame is pointless. We had several exchanges of the leadership baton and it is clear that we are unable to change course.

    Good men and women have stepped forward with sound ideas, only to have rabid partisan jumped on them as soon as they open their mouths.

    WURA, who is akin to a modern John the Baptist crying in the wilderness of BU is now a mad woman.

    Piece wore a tin foil hat

    WS lost his deposit.

    Hal is everything not found in the book of good.

    Patriotic men an women reduced to a single word or a carriacture. Meanwhile the BDLP with fifty years of flawed leadership flounders on.


  31. Caricature


  32. @Marioosa

    These things are not unobserved. As I have said, there is a fake politeness, addressing other bloggers as Mr or Ms, it is like the police stopping young black boys and calling them ‘sir’, before stripping them in public.
    On Bu, the one who profess to be educated, start out by being ‘polite’, but if you challenge them they resort to abuse and expletives and even talk of being a liar and hate, words I rarely hear in my ordinary social experience.
    Quite often it is a shield for their own ignorance. Sometimes all that is needed is simply to ask the person to explain themselves, or to elaborate.
    You will notice only certain bloggers ask people to explain themselves, while others jump on what appears to be ‘wrong’ as a signal that the person is lying. It is the gotcha complex.
    I remember one person going to Mailonline and posting some information, which s/he claimed was from the Daily Mail. I pointed out it came from Mailonline, a simple fact. Rather than thanking me, s/he attacked me for nitpicking.
    On another occasion, I said that the regulatory body for accountants and auditors in the UK is the Financial Reporting Council; one person came one shouting that I was not only wrong, but a liar. Of course it was correct, but in the BU echo chamber who listens to the facts.
    Only recently I pointed out that the fist-past-the-post system of voting encourages a two party system, the winner and the runner-up, while proportional representation encourages minority parties because government is usually by coalition. A statement of fact.
    I gave as examples Israel, Germany, the Scottish National Party, etc. I was accused of being ‘obsessed’ with PR. BU is reflective of Barbados.
    You will find the psychology of the mob in its perfect form on BU. People who bully and those who are scared to call them out in case they too become victims.
    There is one person I am watching his/her postings as a sign of a meltdown in real time on social media. Have a look at Peter Finch in the film Network. A real-life nervous breakdown is a frightening experience.
    .


  33. Every body talks about ethics moral standing integrity all which can be described as Common decency and highly appropriate for good leadership
    However when those aspects are placed on a foundation which requires due respect
    There is an underlying current of anger against the message and messenger
    Walter Blackman wants to step out and make a difference no problem
    However he must be vetted and scrutinize making shore his character shines brightly as an example for others to follow
    The apologist can comfort and support all they wish however the bottom line lays within a person character
    A great philosopher once said “by they fruits we shall know them”
    Fake outrage No! just a debate which hinges on an individual moral character
    Have a great Sunday bajan style


  34. @Ha
    @All
    Sometimes you have to let go and move on. There is truth in the expression that when pointing fingers, three are pointing back at you.

    The fight for the last word is endless. Having the last word does not mean victory

    Let it go. Move on


  35. 😃
    I have developed a liking for you.
    You have mastered the art of making gold from straw.

    I remembered when we talked of two or three Mariposa/ac and how you attempted to ride a dead horse past the winning post, but you have evolved to a much higher level.

    Your deliveries are now clever, consistent and very effective.

    Indeed, if you can match your level of outrage to actual events, you would be unbeatable. Keep up the effort.

    Have a beautiful day.


  36. “You will find the psychology of the mob in its perfect form on BU”

    I think a good take away conclusion is people from Barbados are nuts, but this thread is getting confusing about who is having a pop at who. It conjures up a scene of a street gang of about 20 people pulling out guns and aiming them at each other and shooting randomly and all of them dying.


  37. You and some others are like children. You must get in a last word, it t does not matter if it makes no sense. Then you same people claim to be at the vanguard of wanting change.


  38. @ 555dubstreet

    You are correct. And, it appears as though every BU thread is indeed becoming increasingly confusing as well.

    All of a sudden, a level of outrage is being directed at Mr. Blackman and ‘talk’ about “ethics, moral standing, integrity, individual moral character, common decency”……. simply because he mentioned something about “trembling botsies?”

    Where were these same people who are now expressing outrage HIDING when, with monotonous continuity, contributors, INCLUDING WOMEN. are described as predators, wild beast and savages that should be in the jungle, slimy pigs, hungry dingoes, buzzing flies, billy goats, wild barking dogs, buzzards and buzzing flies?

    That’s why I believe this ‘outrage’ is not only fake, but hypocritical as well.


  39. Here it is the blogmaster invited Walter to share insights about his forage into political life in Barbados and what do we get from supposedly intelligent people? A bariffle of BS. All comments will now be deleted at the blogmaster’s discretion.


  40. GP
    November 22, 2020 1:33 PM

    “THE ONE WHO SOUGHT TO TEACH ME BIOCHEMISTRY ABOUT THE OBVIOUS AND EASILY EXPLAINED INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM EXHIBITED BY MS SEMANYA, THE BLACK 800 METER CHAMPION. IF SHE WAS OF A DIFFERENT HUE, HER SITUATION WOULD BE ACCEPTED. SHE OBVIOUSLY LACKS THE ENZYME TO CONVERT TESTOSTERONE TO ESTROGEN”

    GP,
    I accept the main thrust of your argument.

    I have watched the summer olympics for “may moons” and I have seen some white female competitors who were built like men. Admittedly, the majority of them competed in the field events. No one ever questioned their gender. No one ever labelled them as “intersex” athletes

    Caster Semenya, a black South African female athlete, has won the last two gold medals in the 800 metres, and her success has caused her to be subjected to many tests. All of a sudden, we have become bombarded with “scientific ” data about her. She has X and Y chromosomes, the studies claim, and these chromosomes enable her to produce testosterone levels in the male range.

    Consequently, Semenya was barred from competing in the World Track and Field games last year, and the IAAF has imposed hormone restrictions in women’s races ranging from the 400 metres to the mile. The immediate impact of the IAAF’s restrictions is to limit poor Semenya to competing in the 100 and 200 metres. The obvious objective of this strategy is to wipe Semenya from the face of international athletics.

    This is the world we live in.


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  42. CORRECTION WALTER

    Caster Semenya, THE black South African female athlete, WHO has won the last two gold medals in the 800 metres, has X and Y chromosomes. THIS MAKES HER FEMALE BUT these chromosomes DO NOT enable her to produce testosterone levels in the male range.
    ALL WOMEN MAKE TESTOSTERONE BEFORE THEY MAKE OESTROGENS

    THE PROCESS IS CHOLESTEROL=-> THE FEMALE HORMONE PROGESTERONE =-> TESTOSTERONE where it stops in men

    in females TESTOSTERONE is then converted to OESTROGENS WHICH INDUCES THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT TEND TO DIFFERENTIATE THE SEXES APART FROM THE GENITALIA
    IF I KNOW THAT SHE HAS AN INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM IN THE LACK OF THE ENZYME THAT CONVERTS TESTOSTERONE TO ESTROGENS, THE SCIENTISTS MUST ALSO KNOW IT

    THIS IS BASIC BIOCHEMISTRY THAT IS WELL KNOWN TODAY
    THEY HAVE NEVER FOUND HER TO HAVE EXOGENOUS STEROIDS. THEY KNOW THAT ALL HER EXCESS TESTOSTERONE IS PRODUCED ENDOGENOUSLY.

    RE The immediate impact of the IAAF’s restrictions is to limit poor Semenya to competing in the 100 and 200 metres.
    SHE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO COMPETE IN THESE EVENTS WELL BECAUSE HER MUSCLE FIBRES MAY NOT BE FAST TWITCH,AND THEY PROBABLY KNOW THIS


  43. @ Walter Blackman November 22, 2020 3:36 PM

    Sorry to add a bit of diversion or a little levity to your blog.

    But you have just argued, inadvertently so, one of the best cases on behalf of same-sex unions (in which Caster her/him self?? is involved).

    Why should mainstream society discriminate so blatantly against ‘others’ who are always in the minority just because they might be the victims (let us say ‘products’) of the quirks of Mother Nature?

    W.McM. B, you are certainly a true Xtian at heart and indeed in mind; even if not in thoughts. LOL!!


  44. Here it is the blogmaster invited Walter to share insights about his forage into political life in Barbados and what do we get from supposedly intelligent people? A bariffle of BS. All comments will now be deleted at the blogmaster’s discretion.
    THE SAME OBTAINS ON SSS EVERY WEEK AND ON MOST THREADS
    IT HAS BEEN SO FOR YEARS


  45. Is there morality in politics?


  46. RE But you have just argued, inadvertently so, one of the best cases on behalf of same-sex unions (in which Caster her/him self?? is involved).
    Why should mainstream society discriminate so blatantly against ‘others’ who are always in the minority just because they might be the victims (let us say ‘products’) of the quirks of Mother Nature?
    THE PERENNIAL PABLUM BY MILLER
    CASTER SEMANYA IS PHYSICALLY AND GENETICALLY FEMALE
    SHE IS NOT A QUIRK OF NATURE EITHER
    SHE FUNCTIONS AS AN OUTSTANDING ATHLETE IN HER DISCIPLINE, NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF ANY HORMONAL ADVANTAGE, BUT PROBABLY SHE WORKS AT HER DISCIPLINE, AND IS MOST LIKELY ENDOWED WITH THE SLOW SWITCH MUSCLE FIBRES REQUIRED BY AND CHARACTERISTIC OF LONG DISTANCE RUNNERS


  47. So here These are my last words on the issue
    I apologize. I was rude i was disruptive.i was immoral unethical and ruthlessly untruthful
    I apologize
    Time for dinner cow heel red beans and rice and a greek salad


  48. @ GP November 22, 2020 4:19 PM

    How come you have avoided, and deliberately so, that morally burning vexed fact that she is a same-sex relationship in which she is committed sexually to another biologically-proven female?

    What is your biblical exegesis on that ‘odd’ state of affairs?


  49. @ Mariposa

    My father loved red beans and rice, I am not sure about the cow heel. He favoured beef stew. Enjoy. Remember to say your prays. I am a simpler eater.


  50. Hal my dinner all symbolic of having to traverse high waters
    Cow heel. a symbol of toughness
    Red beans . symbol of sacrifice
    Greek salad. A combination of choices with good intentions

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