A response to Carroll's letter to the Freeport News. The money quote:

Passing laws that treat Bahamian citizens differently based on their race or ancestry is a moral abomination. Carroll's [separatist] Apartheid policy will further break Bahamians into warring pressure groups -- fighting for the title of "true-true" Bahamian. The loser in such a "caste" system is the greatest minority that exists: the individual, who deprived of his rights as an individual, is forced to join a political pressure group to lobby for government granted privileges for his tribe. If you want to divide the Bahamas into warring pressure groups and balkanize us like Rwanda, Nazi Germany and Bosnia -– Carroll's prescription is the poison to do just that.

Politically, the overriding national interest of the Bahamian government should not be to establish bigotry as a "national imperative," but to protect the inalienable rights of all individuals equally. Morally, the proper method to deal with anyone -– is to judge each person not as a member of some race, group, tribe or class, but as an individual with all the uniqueness and creativity that the individual possesses. To paraphrase Martin Luther King: judge a man not by some non-moral trait -– like race, ancestry or nationality -- but by the content of his character -- his words and deeds.