A political candidate has filed a complaint with an anti-racism organisation over an Opposition MP's comments.

Sanders Frith Brown revealed yesterday that he lodged the official complaint with the Human Rights Commission following remarks made by Warwick West representative Dr. Ewart Brown during a Bermuda Medical Society meeting.

Mr. Frith Brown said the meeting was held in October, shortly after Dr. Brown -- the medical director at Bermuda Health Care Services Ltd. -- had applied to bring in an associate.

However the BMS did not agree with the move, said Mr. Frith Brown, and Dr.

Brown attacked them.

He claimed Dr. Brown said: "What right do you white English doctors have, coming from lowly circumstances, making a lot of money in Bermuda, telling me what to do.'' Mr. Frith Brown -- who is running as an Independent Unfettered Bermuda Party candidate in Paget East -- said: "This is pure and simply a racial attack. It is sinister to the extreme. This was a racial slur.'' He said his wife, Dr. Valerie James, wrote to Dr. Brown. In her letter she said she was compelled to write following his "verbal attack'' of her and the other members of the BMS which "incensed'' her.

In his reply, Dr. Brown wrote: "I did not consider my presentation an attack in any sense of the word. I also hope that I never stage an attack upon you -- verbal or otherwise.'' He added: "That you were so incensed by my remarks probably has more to do with the fact that it was unexpected that I should climb out of my `proper place' and express my intention to resist certain conduct which I find incorrect.'' Mr. Frith Brown called the complaint he was filing "a report in principle''.

"I don't honestly expect the Human Rights Commission to put Ewart in jail or fine him, nor do I want them to.'' He added: "People will say I am posturing, that I am trying to make headlines because I am running in Paget East but I have been meaning to deal with this for a while.'' Mr. Frith Brown said recent letters appearing in The Royal Gazette had convinced him that he had to do something.

And he said he wanted the issue to be looked at in the overall context of race relations on the Island which were at a standstill because nothing was being done to improve them.

"We are spinning our wheels and going nowhere,'' he said.

This was why he had gone ahead with filing the complaint, said Mr. Frith Brown.

"I am making a point here. You don't get many opportunities to clearly show a case of reverse racism.'' DISCRIMINATION DIS