Comments on: Message to the Constitutional Convention Delegates

By: Indigenous Virgin Islander

Indigenous Virgin Islander — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:51:27 +0000

Survival of the fittest is the name of the game. Capitalism rules. Start your own business and stop bitching about outsiders coming to start their businesses & getting tax breaks. The black market and underground economies are thriving!We need to help ourselves build our tax base. The natives pay the Sato whores tax free cash and the dope and gun dealers enjoy tax free profit.Let’s stop whining and get with the program.

By: Indigenous Virgin Islander

Indigenous Virgin Islander — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:37:17 +0000

I do not believe that teacher routinely instruct their students to “yank” when giving oral presentations.Speaking standard English is not the same as “yanking.”One can speak standard English without yanking.

By: Calypsojoe

Calypsojoe — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:56:32 +0000

I agree with much of what you are saying but I have not seen the general population stick up for what has transpired here over the years. It seems as if the leaders have sold the islands and their citizens down the road. How could anyone let people come to the islands with soft money operations and give them tax breaks. Even companies that were established tax paying entities now get tax breaks. We need people that come here to help build our tax base so we can improve the roads, schools and utilities. The new wealth that has hit the islands in the past six to seven years are only inflating the costs of the hard working people of the Virgin Islands while they continue to build mansions, buy real estate and inflate the cost of living of islanders.

By: Political Young Guy

Political Young Guy — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:21:28 +0000

I applaud the writer for such a stirring piece. I have never seen such cultural suicide anywhere else in the world. Do you know that teachers in the V.I. public school system routinely instruct students to ‘yank’ when giving oral presentations? I mean I understand the argument that upwardly mobile young virgin islanders must be able to speak powerfully and be understood, but I do think that rejecting our accents in totality is dangerous.

By: Indigenous Virgin Islander

Indigenous Virgin Islander — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:56:33 +0000

The proponents of natve rights should explain how the Congress is going to approve a document that discriminate against one group.

By: J.J. Estemac

J.J. Estemac — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:50:17 +0000

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Dr. Hendricks article, an appeal to the delegates to the fifth constitution convenetion. I trust it was widely read and digested by the delegates. I agree that all the chest beating assertions of love for the Virgin Islands there is a real lack of true nationalism,a lack of true patriotism. Patriotism includes love for the Virgin Islands demonstrated by the acceptance of things that are typically Virgin Islands such as the people, the culture, the language, its history, its present and its future. True patriotism includes obeying the laws and respecting and/or tolerating the customs of the territory. The delegates can show their patriotism by recognizing English as the official language.