A “silent majority” backs the work of the racial justice charity Curb, according to the group’s vice-president.Cordell Riley said Curb’s last round of truth and reconciliation community conversations ended in December with participants expressing “a need for us to go even deeper”, meaning the group was “achieving what we set out to achieve”.He added: “When we receive negative comments, whether in the press or the blogs, those voices are loud. We have a tendency to think there’s not much support out there.”But he said comments against the group came from “a very small majority”, adding: “We know there’s a silent majority out there who, when asked, will give their support.”Mr Riley praised the Government’s move to carry out “its own agenda of racial justice”, after the launch in November of an online questionnaire soliciting public feedback on race relations. The survey is on offer from the Ministry of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport.Mr Riley added: “They have not formally asked for our support. But I would encourage people to fill it out, and I hope that they will get good information.”Curb’s discussion groups are now entering their fourth year.Mr Riley described one exercise in which the group examined a photograph of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein addressing a group of black students, captioned “racism is a disease of white people”.They juxtaposed it with a photograph from a People’s Campaign march in 2014 in which a black protester carried a placard that said “White mental illness is killing African Bermudians”.Mr Riley said: “Einstein was saying the same thing and yet there was no controversy surrounding that. “We looked at how there’s a different response depending on who’s saying it.”Last year, Curb held a telephone and online survey of 323 voters, asking whether they saw a need for non-governmental groups to tackle racial justice in Bermuda.There was approval from 89 per cent of respondents, up from 83 per cent in 2014 and 79 per cent in 2012. The increase was “essentially feedback from the public on why our group should exist”, Mr Riley said.He noted that the group’s last tag day, on March 21, took in three times as many donations as the previous year, with numerous white donors commending the group’s work.Mr Riley said: “We use that as anecdotal evidence that we’re making headway.”He added: “I feel that we’re moving forward — perhaps slowly, but there’s a level of understanding, and the more we have of that, Bermuda will only become a better place.“In terms of where we’re going next, I’ve seen the comments online asking what Curb wants.“Obviously we want racial justice. What does that look like? That’s where we have different views.”