November 9, 2012Dear Sir,Kevin Comeau has informed us that I have received “significant funding” from the PLP!!!! Anyone who makes that unabashed, unqualified statement is neither honest or truthful — no matter how virtuous they pretend to be.1. I have received an OBE on the recommendation of the PLP Premier. I assure him it carries with it no “significant funding”.2. Many years ago I was appointed to the Treatment of Offenders Board, from which I have long since been removed, for which I was paid $25 once a month.3. If Mr Comeau knows of “ significant funding” made available to me through the PLP he should tell me more so that I may gain access to it!!!My reason for supporting the PLP — despite my believing that party politics is the second most destructive thing that has happened to the black community — is quite uncomplicated.I believe that the MOST destructive thing that has happened to this country is the imposition of segregation in 1834 at the moment of Emancipation and its rigid maintenance in the decades that followed. I agree with the words attributed to Craig Cannonier: “Despite what many people want to believe, history shows that racism has been responsible for more sickness, death, poverty and crime than any other single injustice. The legacy of racism is the root cause of many of the social ills and dysfunction we are grappling with today”. Many are “genuinely ignorant about the way white supremacy has imposed injustices and how it still works to maintain the status quo”.Why would I support a political party that represents 95 percent of the white community that both imposed and continues to maintain both the social segregation and the long term impact that has been so destructive to this country?I know that there are self righteous blacks who want to appease the white community who are very accepting of the racism that created the racial divide but are very critical of the way black folks have responded to it, going so far as to declare that blacks are as racist as Whites, and that they are tired of hearing about “black and white” and that those of us who talk about it are creating the divide! We would not talk about it if a divide did not already exist. It has been there since 1834 and we did not create it.EVA N HODGSON