UBP MP Patricia Gordon-Pamplin has attacked the Government for putting out a slanted view of black history in the Island's schools.

She said: "Black history didn't just start in November 1998. We had the first black premier Sir ET Richards, he's not mentioned. I did see a picture of Martin Luther King, he's not a Bermudian.

"We had the first black woman Premier, she's not mentioned. There are several advance of blacks in society not mentioned.'' She said someone who used to visit her family home had approached her recently and said her father would be turning in his grave because she and her sister were associating with white people.

Mrs. Gordon-Pamplin said: "Well that person may have come to my home but I lived in that home. I was personally brought up that we were not to discriminate in any shape or form.'' And she lashed PLP backbencher Delaey Robinson for appearing to hint at the complexion of people at a recent meeting urging a constitutional conference.

She said: "He said `those are not the people I represent'.'' "He's indicating he's hands off, he doesn't represent them. He saying he doesn't represent white people.'' Mrs. Pamplin-Gordon said it was the duty of MPs to represent everybody, even those who didn't vote for them.

However Mr. Robinson told The Royal Gazette that he had not meant it racially when he said the people at the recent meeting urging a constitutional conference were not his people.

He said: "It looked like the UBP managed to pull out all their supporters.

That's what I meant. It wasn't a race thing, good heavens no.

"I doubt if two people in that room voted for me.'' He added that Mrs. Gordon-Pamplin was particularly sensitive on the issue. He said: "Whenever anything comes up like Gordon are you in the right party she's sensitive to it.''