July 17, 2011Dear Sir,I know that we're living in a troubled period that many of us feel will never end, but I want everyone to know that we can turn this thing around! The hard part is fighting our culture of fear, apathy and hopelessness, but if more of us thought of ways to combat this situation instead of waiting for someone else to do it we'd be able to recover. One such problem is the recent appearance of anti-Filipino/Indian graffiti that you'll find in the bus stops on the hospital route. Despite being written by (possibly) one or two people they've increased in the last week and a half and will only skyrocket from there (proving that one person really does make a difference).They should not be made into scapegoats for the Country's problems that have been slowly growing over decades, and we blacks should really know better considering that we're the first to complain whenever a group tries to blame us for something. Let's face it: The biggest problem we have now is that so many people have left the Island in the past few years, and some of that is a form of “white flight” that we saw in the US when whites abandoned the cities in search of “safer” suburbs. Xenophobia is only going to make this situation worse. It must be hard to leave your homeland in order to help your family, and I wish that more Bermudians would empathise with them.I hope that the Government can find some funds to paint over the graffiti and that HSBC and the other bus stop advertisers will realise that they are inadvertently promoting racism and will find enough in their budgets to do the same. If not, we will have to do it by ourselves. As Betty Reese once said: “If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.”AN AGENT OF CHANGEWarwick