Another example of 'black' and 'Bermudian' being used interchangably. This time by Mid Ocean News columnist Alvin Williams in this Bermuda Sun story. In describing the attack he switches from using the phrase 'young, black working class' to 'Bermudians':
Newspaper columnist Alvin Williams is a black Bermudian whose mother's second husband was Portuguese. She went on to have three children, two surviving, half black, half Portuguese. He sees the issue from both sides.Last week's incident, he says was an aberration. "It had to do with the soccer thing and the display of Portuguese nationalism and in the background of that was the feeling among the young, black working class that they're being displaced."
Mr. Williams, who supports independence, said: "Bermudians do not have a sense of this country belonging to them and they feel insecure about it."
We seem to be forgetting in all of this that the victim was Bermudian.
Posted by Christian S. Dunleavy