An accident this morning (January 9, 2015) involving an Asian woman and a minibus showed an ugly side to the St. Lucian mentality which raised the question of just how receptive locals are towards other ethnicities.
At around 9:20 a.m. at the Babonneau bus stand, a blue minibus, accidentally collided with an Asian woman who was attempting to cross the passageway designated to the minibuses.
Although the incident was very minor, the startled woman who was carrying two large black garbage bags appeared to be in some pain in her left foot and was left with a damaged slipper.
It was at this moment that the crowd began to grow rapidly. The VOICE witnessed the entire incident from the start including the crowd’s shameful response.
As the woman stood stoically awaiting assistance, people began to jeer and hurl insults at her.
The main taunt was aimed at her ethnicity with people yelling out “The Chinese woman just wants money”.
Many onlookers claimed that she was lying and that in fact, she never even came into contact with the vehicle. Some insisted that this kind of “trickery” was common for people of Asian ethnicity who lie just to make monetary claims.
A few minutes into the incident, the police arrived on the scene to get the details and were forced to warn the baying crowd to back off .
Following this warning, the driver of the minibus involved in the incident collected the victim’s bags and proceeded to help her onto his vehicle so that they could clear the scene and allow the built up traffic to flow freely.
This caused further uproar as other minibus drivers and onlookers alike insisted that the driver should wait for an ambulance to transport the victim and that he should not put her on his vehicle.
After a brief conversation with the police who recorded the details of both parties involved, the driver drove off with the woman bound for the Victoria Hospital.
The extent of the woman’s injuries were not immediately known.
This is tragic ! Part of a degenerate culture – The reporter forgot to mention the E-GAS !! REFRAIN from the onlookers as the woman fell to the ground. Savagery; that’s what it is and has its roots in the pleasure derived from the brutalization of animals – stoning dogs, or throwing hot oil on felines, to beating children with bamboo sticks and leather belts. Savages.
Like domestic violence, this behavior has to be exposed for the savagery that it is and the Government should have public pronouncements, if only on RSL, to teach these people how barbaric and mean such behavior really is. Good Christians ? E-salop !
I was in a car accident a few years ago where the crowd turned on me. True, I had wrongfully passed another car in an area that wasn’t safe to pass and caused an accident. A crowd quickly gathered to see what the white lady had done. A few people tried reaching into my vehicle to grab my keys. I could hear rude and malicious comments from the crows…”She just hit another vehicle down the road, this is her second accident in a few minutes!” A few people pretended they were police officers and tried leading myself and my daughter away. The crowd grew and the tauntings grew until we sought safety inside a neighbourhood bar. During the incident one woman scratched my cheek. We had to sneak away like criminals in the night and went to the police station in the morning….very scary. There is a strong undercurrent of hate for others in St Lucia.
If this will make you feel any better, it doesn’t matter if you are “others” or Lucian, if you are distressed by a fall or some misfortune you will be ridiculed and be the brunt of the laughter – don’t fall into some open gutter on a wet day and break your leg; you will be the E-GAS entertainment for at least that day . You stand receiving a more sympathetic response if you are Caucasian than if you are some other Black from some other place, so if as a Caucasian you were able to obtain safety in a Rum Shop, thank God; for another soul would have been boiled and eaten with breadfruit. They are taught to eat the body and blood of a man, from childhood.
“Good Christians ? E-salop !”
“They are taught to eat the body and blood of a man, from childhood.”
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You stupid Muslim Jihadist; how can a religion that condones the flying of airplanes into buildings (like the World Trade Center), killing thousands of innocent people, be better than Christianity?
How can a religion that condones the beheading of journalists (and aid-workers) on television be better than Christianity?
How can a religion that blow-up embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, killing and injuring hurdreds of workers, be better than Christianity?
How can a religion that condones the kidnapping of hundreds of school-girls in Nigeria be better than Christianity?
And where do you find the time to pray 5 times daily in the nearest mosque; go to work; and still find time to come on this blog to spew your Anti-Christian propaganda? Maybe you are just a fake Muslim.
Sura 31 – Luqman (MAKKA) : Verse 19
“And be moderate (or show no insolence) in your walking, and lower your voice. Verily, the harshest of all voices is the braying of the ass.”
Translation : Eng-Dr. Mohsin
It is simply astounding the manner some fanatic Crusaders present such flawed and demented arguments. I know such demented worshipers of the Naked Whiteman nailed to a post, would never make such a blanket condemnation of Christianity for the actions of the Lord’s Resistance Army and Joseph Kony, known for their mass murder and terror in Uganda.
However, this Christian fanatic has no problem condemning the two billion Muslims for the actions of some criminal thugs seeking fame and fortune while doing the very things Islam condemns. It is quite obvious that such emotionally disturbed individuals are ignorant hot-heads, who know nothing of the Islamic Faith, and never read the Qur-an or the Hadeeths – I can hear him saying, Ha, dee, th ? yes that’s the sound of ignorance.
What is even more hypocritical, is the deafening silence of the so-called pundits, when atrocities are committed against Black People by K.K.K., or when George Bush murders millions of Iraqis in an illegal war-of-aggression, and the CIA torturing thousands of people across the planet in Black Sites, Guantanamo Cuba, and Abu-Gharib, at no time was there a demand that the Christian Pope apologize for the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes committed by the Regime of George Bush and Dick Cheney.
But just let a Group of Criminal thugs in Nigeria calling themselves Boko Harram, who kill and hurt Muslims, and everyone else, or some Criminal thugs in France kill one person, then its time to attack Islam by ignorant fanatics who know nothing of the Islamic Religion, and truth be told they know nothing of the TRUE religion of Christianity, otherwise they would not worship a Naked Caucasian as God, and pray to Dead people to cure them of Cancer and save them from death.
I don’t know how this article delved into aspects of religion but sir, while you and your faithful patron try to degrade the culture and history of St.Lucia I’d like you to keep a few things in mind. You should realize that everything you infer is biased. The reason you despise Christianity and “The White Man” is all because of your islamic worldview. Each person is entitled to their own opinions but try not to be belligerent when asserting them. I am no Catholic so I cannot speak on their behalf but any Christian who claims to follow the principles stated in the bible should see the obvious picture of Jesus. If he was a Hebrew—the Hebrew being culturally tan or darker—then we should know that he did not appear as White.
It appears to me that you harbour animosity towards the White race and that’s understandable. They’ve persecuted your people for a long time and you have the right to feel that way but please take into consideration that a country’s actions does not count for the whole of its people. If you want to rant about Christianity please refer to a website that is primarily devoted to such religious views.
While you insist on Christianity’s sacrilegious acts and doctrine discern from your biased mindset as well.
I am trying to be polite here so if you reply to me with any hostility or ignorance then I will probably retaliate in the same way. I don’t really want to do that because you write long posts and I’m not too fond of reading long texts. Stop degrading my people; everyone gets angry and doing so acts and speaks in a way that is unwise. Feel free to attend our Jazz Festival—you might find it fun.
How can a commentator on a news website, blame an entire religion for the actions of a few ?
I don’t know how this article delved into aspects of religion but sir, while you and your faithful patron try to degrade the culture and history of St.Lucia I’d like you to keep a few things in mind. You should realize that everything you infer is biased. The reason you despise Christianity and “The White Man” is all because of your islamic worldview. Each person is entitled to their own opinions but try not to be belligerent when asserting them. I am no Catholic so I cannot speak on their behalf but any Christian who claims to follow the principles stated in the bible should see the obvious picture of Jesus. If he was a Hebrew———the Hebrew being culturally tan or darker———then we should know that he did not appear as White.
It appears to me that you harbour animosity towards the White race and that’s understandable. They’ve persecuted your people for a long time and you have the right to feel that way but please take into consideration that a country’s actions does not count for the whole of its people. If you want to rant about Christianity please refer to a website that is primarily devoted to such religious views.
While you insist on Christianity’s sacrilegious acts and doctrine discern from your biased mindset as well.
I am trying to be polite here so if you reply to me with any hostility or ignorance then I will probably retaliate in the same way. I don’t really want to do that because you write long posts and I’m not too fond of reading long texts. Stop degrading my people; everyone gets angry and doing so acts and speaks in a way that is unwise. Feel free to attend our Jazz Festival—you might find it fun.
Ah, sorry, that was meant for SON-OF-MAN.
Forget the religious talk for once. Concentrate on the stupidity at hand. Many Lucians have a diseased attitude when it comes to compassion, civility etc. Always quick to take the shortcut, the lazy way for instant gratification.
Things always have to escalate because there isn’t the mental capacity to engage or reason. So it reverts to medieval ignorance.
Many go on to show exactly the same attitudes in other countries, which doesn’t make the nation look good. Sad.
Maybe, it’s cumulative effects of sniffing the diluted sulphuric vapors from that magnificent sleepy cauldron; as it hangs like a haze much like an Apple data i-cloud o’er the island.
Perhaps it’s the legacy of the Medieval Ages as asserted by MM
I do get goose bumps at the mention of the Middle Ages, so allow me to cite some salient backgrond from Wikipedia:”
In European history, the Middle Ages, or Medieval period, lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.
In the 7th century, North Africa and the Middle East, once part of the Eastern Roman Empire came under the rule of the Caliphate, an Islamic empire, after conquest by Muhammad’s successors.
Monasteries were founded as campaigns to Christianise pagan Europe continued.
” Manorialism, the organisation of peasants into villages that owed rent and labour services to the nobles, and feudalism, the political structure whereby knights and lower-status nobles owed military service to their overlords in return for the right to rent from lands and manors, were two of the ways society was organised in the High Middle Ages.
The Crusades, first preached in 1095, were military attempts by Western European Christians to regain control of the Middle Eastern Holy Land from the Muslims.
Kings became the heads of centralised nation states, reducing crime and violence but making the ideal of a unified Christendom more distant.
Intellectual life was marked by scholasticism, a philosophy that emphasised joining faith to reason, and by the founding of universities.”
The First Crusade was proclaimed by Pope Urban II (r. 1081–1118) for aid against further Muslim advances. Urban promised indulgence to anyone who took part. Tens of thousands of people from all levels of society mobilised across Europe and captured Jerusalem in 1099.[204]
One feature of the crusades was the pogroms against local Jews that often took place as the crusaders left their countries for the East. These were especially brutal during the First Crusade,[73] when the Jewish communities in Cologne, Mainz, and Worms were destroyed, and other communities in cities between the rivers Seine and Rhine suffered destruction.[205]
Another outgrowth of the crusades was the foundation of a new type of monastic order, the military orders of the Templars and Hospitallers, which fused monastic life with military service.[206]
The crusaders consolidated their conquests into crusader states. During the 12th and 13th centuries, there were a series of conflicts between those states and the surrounding Islamic states. Appeals from those states to the papacy led to further crusades,[204] such as the Third Crusade,”
“During the 11th century, developments in philosophy and theology led to increased intellectual activity. There was debate between the realists and the nominalists over the concept of “universals”. Philosophical discourse was stimulated by the rediscovery of Aristotle and his emphasis on empiricism and rationalism. Scholars such as Peter Abelard (d. 1142) and Peter Lombard (d. 1164) introduced Aristotelian logic into theology.”
“Among the results of the Greek and Islamic influence on this period in European history was the replacement of Roman numerals with the decimal positional number system and the invention of algebra, which allowed more advanced mathematics.
Jewish communities were expelled from England in 1290, and from France in 1306. Although some were allowed back into France, most were not, and many Jews emigrated eastwards, settling in Poland and Hungary.[265] The Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, and dispersed to Turkey, France, Italy, and Holland.[73] The rise of banking in Italy during the 13th century continued throughout the 14th century, fuelled partly by the increasing warfare of the period and the needs of the papacy to move money between kingdoms.
“the western church was riven by theological controversies, some of which turned into heresies. John Wycliffe (d. 1384), an English theologian, was condemned as a heretic in 1415 for teaching that the laity should have access to the text of the Bible as well as holding views on the Eucharist that were contrary to church doctrine.[292] Other heresies were manufactured, such as the accusations against the Knights Templar that resulted in their suppression in 1312, and the division of their great wealth between the French King Philip IV (r. 1285–1314) and the Hospitallers.[295]
The papacy refined the concept of transubstantiation further in the Late Middle Ages, stating that the clergy alone was allowed to partake of the wine in the Eucharist. This further distanced the secular laity from the clergy. The laity continued the practices of pilgrimages, veneration of relics, and belief in the power of the Devil. Besides mysticism, belief in witches and witchcraft became widespread, and by the late 15th century the Church had begun to lend credence to populist fears of witchcraft by its condemnation of witches in 1484 and the publication in 1486 of the Malleus Maleficarum, the most popular handbook for witch-hunters.[296]”
Synopsis: The Middle ages doth appear like a fusion of the 1900 Galveston Texas Hurricane and a Bering Straits wide Siberian Blizzard conjugating a Grand Canyon size Earth shearing earthquake to reveal a pompei class active volcano
MM you are too generous. The behavior of the onlookers (typical!?) reminds me of the barbaric mentality of Atilla the Hun.
Perhaps it’s the legacy of the Medieval Ages as asserted by MM
Synopsis: The Middle ages doth appear like a fusion of the 1900 Galveston Texas Hurricane and a Bering Straits wide Siberian Blizzard conjugating a Grand Canyon size Earth shearing earthquake to reveal a pompei class active volcano
MM you are too generous. The behavior of the onlookers (typical!?) reminds me of the barbaric mentality of Atilla the Hun. marinating in the persuasive gesticulations of Goebbels exalting a frenzied ritual to DIONYSUS.
Have us mercy -send down Percy!
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-Charlee’s Angel
You never disappoint, and you appreciation of the ‘Big’ picture makes your contribution substantive. I referred to an individual who glorifies ignorance, while attempting to hide behind transparent substances using different pseudonyms with the same signature, as a Crusader, however, in the after-thought I recognized that this blockhead would not appreciate the nature of him being labelled a Crusader.
“The papacy refined the concept of transubstantiation further in the Late Middle Ages, stating that the clergy alone was allowed to partake of the wine in the Eucharist.”
I am pleased by your mention of the alteration of the transubstantiation – where bread and wine is transformed into the ACTUAL FLESH AND BLOOD of a man-God, to be eaten by cannibals – as the action of the Pontiff of Rome, having read that like Bill Cosby, priest would use the alcoholic drink to intoxicate nuns to Cosby them. So they would not share a drink with the congregants, wow, what an act of generosity, lol
Western Civilization 101 is indeed an eye-opener; but let’s not get carried away by forcing too close a correlation between ‘ten centuries of Medieval history’ (which obviously you would like to share with the rest of the world) and the incident involving an Asian woman and a minibus in Castries.
I know you are being cheered by your Jihadist friends who would use any opportunity to denouce Christianity; but be careful of wolves in sheep’s clothing.
I am not a Racist nor am I a Sexist. I hate the racist and sexist lie propagated by Caucasians, which states that God is a White man. We know that the Negro imps of Satan are the most demented and shameless in Creation, having their little daughters and wives kneel beneath a naked, blood-dripping white man and ask him for money.
Yesterday the world witnessed one of the most repugnant racist display of White Supremacy of modern times in Paris France, as leaders from all these Caucasian Countries made the largest march for White Supremacy because fifteen Caucasians were murdered.
Last month, a gang of murderous thugs massacred over ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY LITTLE CHILDREN WHILE THEY WERE ATTENDING SCHOOL in Pakistan.
DID THE CAUCASIANS LEADERS LINK ARMS TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF PAKISTAN ? NOOOOO
Fast forward to last week, another gang of fanatic murderous thugs in Nigeria entered a town murdering over TWO THOUSAND MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND BURNING DOWN HOMES.
DID THE CAUCASIANS LEADERS LINK ARMS TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA ? NOOOO.
I can cite too many examples of this disgusting and despicable duplicitous behavior by these White Supremacist Christians – MAKES ME SICK !!
The policeman whose brains was splattered after being shot in the head by the lunatics in France was a Muslim, and this is some of what his brother said:
The brother of the Muslim policeman killed in a terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo called for tolerance Saturday among people of all faiths — and condemned the men who murdered his brother as “false Muslims.”
“I address myself now to all the racists, Islamophobes and anti-Semites that one must not confuse extremists with Muslims,” the brother of slain officer Ahmed Merabet said during a news conference. “Mad people have neither color nor religion.”
OH ALLAH, WHY HAVE YOU OPENED MY EYES TO ALL THESE DUPLICITOUS AND EVIL ACTS BY THESE RACIST CHRISTIANS ? WHY DID YOU NOT MAKE ME A NEGRO LIKE JOHN WAYNE THE ROMAN, OR A DESPICABLE UNCLE TOM HO– USE-NIGGER ??