Well I find several things about your response quite queer indeed. First of all you have claimed from the beginning of your reasoning (or unreasoning) on this thread that you have been reading and browsing this site for years, yet you seem to be quite unfamiliar with the ideas and reasonings expressed by its members FOR YEARS.

You made a nasty statement that those who have responded to you should go off and start their own websites and do something about the situations facing African people. You insinuated that we take a victim stance by simply expressing a well known reality that most of the Rasta websites on the internet are white controlled, and that many of the Rastas and others who spout the rhetoric of Pan Africkanism are light-skinned or white and they are given favour and publicity as a result of this. Well it would seem that now you have been made aware that this site is indeed black owned, black run, and black operated, you have a problem with dark-skinned Africans speaking for themselves and articulating the issues as they see them from their own legitimate experiences in the Caribbean and elsewhere in the Diaspora. You sound like one of those whites who love to say the world is fair and that the poor should get up and get, then whine and complain about immigration, and blacks and other minorities taking their jobs and removing them of their unfair privileges.

Another thing I find quite strange for someone who has claimed to be reading this site for years is that you seem to have no awareness of the fact that I am a woman. This is quite odd seeing that my name and photograph as well as the names and photographs of other administrators are in several places on this site.

There are several whites and light-skinned people who do contribute their reasoning on the message boards, and those who do assist in other ways. Some do choose to learn other perspectives from the direction of other informed blacks. They certainly have been able to understand the issues that you seem to have such difficulty grasping. It seems that some light-skinned blacks are so taken in with the status quo of leading dark-skinned blacks that they are very offended when the issue of colourism comes up. I have seen no evidence anywhere of any dark-skinned blacks seeking special privilege based on their colour with reference to this reasoning. I would like you to clearly show where you have seen any evidence of this in this reasoning that is taking place.

You said; “Finally, if this is a "Black Afrikan" only board, have the administration give me the word and I'll no longer post here. Like I said before, someone should come out and make an open stand about the hue issue. “

Well of course it is like you to come with a distortion here again. I told you that this site is black owned and administered yet you are trying to impute that this is a ‘black only board’. There is no segregation and no banning anyone from this site on the basis of their colour. What IS NOT tolerated is poor conduct, from either black or white or any shades in between, and ones have certainly been banned from the board for this. If I choose to post in an administrative capacity, you will surely know.

I am becoming quite convinced that you did not speak the truth (lie) when you said you were reading this site for years. You do not know much about the site and views expressed here. It appears that you are simply here to peddle the disgruntled distortions of a few whites and other light-skinned ones who were banned for their poor conduct, and not their color or opposing views.

All of this is really distracting from the fact that Black Rastas in Barbados have an issue with the appointment of a white or near white in that position and for the reasons I gave, I agree with them. I cannot condone the blanket dismissal of the legitimate issues of black people by some one who cannot understand the issues from the position in which they stand. So far you have succeed in convincing me that you are not an exception to the traditional, colonial light-skinned Black disgusting conduct.