Dear Sir,

In The Royal Gazette opinion pages of February 17, Bryant Trew, in order to condemn Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, wrote a rather complicated political piece about the Progressive Labour Party and the One Bermuda Alliance, which, in defending blacks who supported white interests, he pleaded all kinds of ignorance about what black people and white people do and think, and advised Lynne Winfield to pretend to be as ignorant.

But the issue is not political; it is racial. Bermuda is a deeply divided society — black and white. It is deeply divided because racist whites imposed racial segregation beginning in 1834 at the moment of emancipation of black slaves, and continuing.

No, all whites are not racist but the two or three that were not, or are not, have never made any difference to the government policy of segregation, nor to the present-day racial divide.

Curb exists primarily to ensure that all of Bermuda does not completely accept the racial divide with all of its destructiveness to black folks as something which should be.

Winfield simply points out some of the ways in which powerful whites have maintained, and continue to maintain, white supremacy.

Since Trew chooses to support those who imposed, and continue to maintain, racial segregation and white supremacy, he might see her as a problem since, like most Bermudians and particularly white Bermudians, he wants to pretend that what whites have done, and are doing, is acceptable.

EVA N. HODGSON