The Bermuda Sun editorialises as usual in their reporting today, this time on UBP leader Michael Dunkley:
[Dr. Brown's] nemesis, politically speaking, is dairy owner Michael Dunkley, an affluent man, who has attempted to downplay his privileged background by calling himself 'the milkman'.
Actually, I'll go out on a limb here and hazard a guess that "The Milkman" is probably because his family run Bermuda's dairy and their name is on the side of every milk carton in Bermuda.
And then there's the catch phrase of "The Milkman delivers". It designed to be memorable, not down play a reporter's prejudices.
There's privilege, and then there's hard work. Sometimes it's not easy to distinguish between the two, and sometimes one is used as a political device to cancel out the other.
I wouldn't call losing your father as a teenager and having to step into the family business by showing up at the dairy at 3AM privileged. I'd call that understanding the value of hard work and supporting your family. Two extremely appealing traits.
Let's leave the caricatures to the cartoonists and the opining to the editorial pages.
Posted by Christian S. Dunleavy