MANY BARBADIANS consider me white.  At CBC, the late Terry Mayers said no matter what I do or how I think and feel I’ll always be treated as white.  This was in no way a bad thing, he was putting a name to a mindset I was already aware of!  Like me, he knew I was anything but.  I’m more mixed than Heinz 57: African-Danish-Italian-Carib-Portuguese-Scots, etc.  I said to him my mother’s birth certificate says she is Coloured.

In plenty and in time of need 
When this fair land was young 
Our brave forefathers sowed the seed 
From which our pride is sprung 
A pride that makes no wanton boast 
Of what it has withstood 
That binds our hearts from coast to coast 
The pride of nationhood

DEAR PRIME MINISTER,