Friday morning, Sen. Jerome Dill said yesterday.

He dismissed arguments by Opposition MP Mr. Julian Hall, who said Police had no role in the matter and said people should not cooperate with the Police investigation.

The posters said "Master's Got A New Nigger!'', showed a picture of the Hon.

Ann Cartwright DeCouto, who is white, shaking hands with Sen. Dill, who is black, after their recent United Bermuda Party primary victory in Pembroke West Central.

"It's outrageous,'' said Sen. Dill, who was off the Island when the posters were discovered Friday and did not return home until yesterday.

"I can't be angry about it. I'm just sad, because I'd like to think we have progressed beyond this. When I decided to get involved in politics, I knew straight off I'd be attacked on a number of bases. I have no difficulty with that. But this has clearly gone right over the line. It's something that ought never to have happened in Bermuda.

"What it does, I can tell you right now, is strengthen my resolve. If I were minded to back out, this sort of thing just guarantees that I'm in there for the duration.'' Mr. Dill said he disagreed with his cousin, Mr. Hall, who argued that the incident should prompt sensible community discussion about race but not a Police investigation.

"The bottom line is: Where do you draw the line in terms of the right to freedom of expression on the one hand and the need to prevent incitement to racial hatred,'' Mr. Hall said Friday.

"Wherever you draw the line, it must certainly be at a point which permits the expression of the very basic proposition that Jerome Dill is just another nigger for the UBP -- and by nigger in this context I mean just another black who is about to be used and be used up.'' But Mr. Dill, who like Mr. Hall is a lawyer, strongly disagreed. The posters were a clear violation of the Human Rights Act, he said. "There's no question in my mind that the Police clearly have to be involved here.'' "I think a Police investigation is of paramount importance. Who is to say this isn't just the beginning? I of course am offended by it, but I'm prepared to leave it. Now it should be in the hands of the authorities.'' At the same time, Mr. Dill said, "my personal view is that most Bermudians find this thing abhorrent and this is the workings of a warped mind somewhere out on the fringe.''