Nothing wrong with advice
October 28, 2012Dear Sir,In Saturday’s Letters to the Editor in The Royal Gazette, October 27, Eva Hodgson once again plays on her one note drum.She says, Kevin Comeau, who happens to be white, should not be able to tell people to look beyond race, but Eva Hodgson, who happens to be black can — and does — tell whites what they should do and has never stopped telling whites where they fall short.Let’s look at just one instance of Eva Hodgson’s bias reasoning in her letter: “But Kevin Comeau has no lecture for them (whites) on how they should behave or how they should vote. They are the superior ones, whatever they do is the right thing for them to do, only blacks need to be told by a white man how we should behave, how we should vote.”For a start Kevin Comeau never said anything about whites being superior or being right all the time — it was Eva Hodgson who wrote that.But what utter nonsense anyway; people are always giving other people advice — it never stops. And if you must look at the colour of their skin while they are giving their advice, why good gracious me, I see whites giving whites advice, blacks giving blacks advice, blacks giving whites advice, and whites giving blacks advice. There is nothing wrong with any of this.I suspect Eva Hodgson does not want anyone to see ‘Beyond Race’; if they did, she wouldn’t have a platform to stand on.MARK EMMERSONPembroke