tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498961727602805543.post285287396828760088..comments2024-02-18T04:34:40.897-04:00Comments on Living in Barbados: Dual standards. Why do black people seem to get worse treatment?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498961727602805543.post-46060244501153425282009-07-13T11:41:42.026-04:002009-07-13T11:41:42.026-04:00Don't despair. I am a white trinidadian, with ...Don't despair. I am a white trinidadian, with a very trinidadian accent. My experience is the same as yours. The brits get all the good service, maybe if my mouth stayed shut so would I!Trinichicanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498961727602805543.post-84242530073909054252007-05-23T16:39:00.000-04:002007-05-23T16:39:00.000-04:00Thought you would find this post from Mad Bull's B...Thought you would find this post from Mad Bull's Blog interesting. In light of her experience, looks like you're not doing too badly. Wadda ya think?<BR/>http://www.madbull4.net/wordpress/index.php/2007/05/23/a-terrible-story/#commentsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498961727602805543.post-82515258011751102492007-04-17T15:55:00.000-04:002007-04-17T15:55:00.000-04:00Sad but true. Other 'low islanders' are seen as in...Sad but true. Other 'low islanders' are seen as inferior and treated accordingly. Black Americans-well, you're still black, right? I don't have to be polite to you!! <BR/>It does I think go back to the whole slave/slaveowner dynamic which has been transplanted to the present as we have massive amounts of white tourists and Bajans.GHFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17781426417394848736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498961727602805543.post-22748210125280319492007-04-16T21:18:00.000-04:002007-04-16T21:18:00.000-04:00Funny,I started reading this post shaking my head...Funny,<BR/>I started reading this post shaking my head in agreegment. I have been to Barbados several times in the last few years, and while I am a born Trinidadian, I grew up in the US, and speak with a very clear American accent.I am black.<BR/>While the service workers were never rude to my face they clearly what I call "suck up to the white people" way more. I am usually extremely polite and try not to let this affect me, but on my last trip with my husband I had to tell off a security guard who behaved like I was a thief while lying at the pool reading on an off day.<BR/>Let me tell you, I was outraged, to see this happeing, he apologized when I told him I could have him fired, once I get back to Washington DC.<BR/>We now live in JA and it's not so bad here, as once they know you are "farrin" as they call outsiders you get farrin treatment. Which is great for whites and good for others, but many then treat non- light skins blacks horribly."res ahh them service is what my husband and I call it"<BR/>All, I have concluded is our black folks have been terribly brian washed to think, white is best and this hurts me terrbily and is a shocker indeed. Life was not like this for me in Washingston DC, or NY so I am amazed.<BR/>I am way curious to know what Greneda and Guayna is like.Keep writing.<BR/><BR/>Cheers<BR/>DaleDale Wadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18047873910798756420noreply@blogger.com