Governor’s statement on reparation is ‘absolutely insulting’ - Kenneth G. Gladstone
“He has no moral foundation to be making such statements, it’s a disgrace on him… but the people of the BVI they sit quietly and allow this man to be insulting to them like that and not even a member Government has said anything about it,” a furious Gladstone told Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) in an exclusive interview.
Governor leeching off of VI
Mr Gladstone further went on to say, “To see the other day, out of the same slave funds he took nearly 100,000 to buy himself a Range Rover, it's our money… this man is out of order!”
According to the radio host, given the insulting statements, the Government of the VI should now move to immediately make plans to remove the Governor out of the Territory.
He told VINO that the Governor, his office, and the seat, are still a main symbol of colonialism plaguing the Territory, and to hear the Governor said what he said is infuriating.
Why do we need the Governor? - Gladstone
“Why do we need a governor to sit in that office if he is not going to represent the needs and the cause of the people, what is his duty?” Gladstone questioned.
“I don’t like foolishness and I’m a black man, and when a white man who represents slavery can tell me that I don’t deserve reparations, you infuriate the hell out of me, the governor has no moral foundation to tell anybody that black people in the BVI or anywhere else, do not deserve reparation,” he said.
Gladstone further illustrated that as is, the Governor is spending VI’s money, sleeping in VI’s bed and eating food paid for by VI taxpayers, a majority the descendants of slaves.
'Racist mentality must be flushed out!'
“We are paying for it…he needs to respect the fact that our sweat and blood should be honoured and he is a part of the racist mentality that is perpetrated around the world and the BVI needs to flush it out,” he said.
Gladstone is the latest of media and social commentators lambasting the Governor for his alleged racist statements against Virgin Islanders.
Many have said the Governor's position on reparations is a direct manifestation of white supremacy.
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Please don’t let up the governor is a r****t
Just happy people starting to read and speak out on this k*k we have at government house
Emperor Augustus is a disgrace to the UK civil service, many of whom are from the Carribbean & enslaved history. He does not have a clue about modern UK.
He is an out and out r*****, just ask people of color who work for him.
They all h*** h*m & are just enduring him & his family as they have to.
Please Honorable Premier expel him immediately.
He insulted us and is unwelcome here.
Answer;
The same reason why you are always Black.
How observant of you to notice that The Governor is always White.
Did you observe that you are always Black?
No body said it to the Queen or Prince Charles when they visited. Give the governor a break. Why not send a message to the Royalties and the bigger wigs in the British government " do not visit even or look at us until you are ready to pay reparation', since reparation is soo soo important. This reparation is just a Band wagon, a piper's dream which will never become reality. Because the accusers have no leverage against the accused.
He can’t stay in the bvi
He has a right just like the ra***t governor
Only God above can help us with all this craziness from CSC and Gladstone.
Our ancestors are resting peacefully. We need to live out our remaining days in peace and let go of this old built-up hate that is doing us no good.
I am not in favour of a wanna be mouthpiece speaking on behalf of our people and causing unnecessary disharmony. Could they do it in their country? I doubt it.
They need to learn common sense.
These comments more than anything,highlights the cerebral and educational deficiencies of too many of the bloggers .
One can only conclude that the educational system in the VI is severely deficient. The future seems dim as a result.
The VI, in my opinion, has a long way to go but unfortunately, they haven't a clue. Building the country with the dregs of the Caribbean to the extent that VIslanders are in the minority, their respected values,culture and sensibilities anhilated and no real effort afoot to reverse this morbid catastrophe is yet another reason clue.
Does this man not understand our system of government here? Governor is not here to represent the needs of the people. He is the Queen's representative. He represents her needs. If the people of the BVI are serious about wanting reparations then there is a legal framework from which to request these. Or you could just put a tax on all white people?
enough talk and blogs time to ma*** on government house the comments are resist and insensitive period
Slavery meant the death of blacks, women, children, fathers, our ancestors. After portions of it ended in the UK they paid the slave owners and give them land not the slaves the OWNERS. Now a man who is in the BVI based on slavery and white privilege telling we as a people that his government policy is no compensation for this evil.
Along with that he says a man like Sir Francis who brought slaves from North America to the Caribbean where they were killed and beaten and treated like dogs that such a person should be honored and his named remain on our sea channel, and no one see anything wrong with that????
IS A NEW LOW FOR THE BVI AND A SIGN THAT WE HAVE FORGOTTEN OUR HISTORY
The role of the Governor is to represent the Queen in protecting the people of the VI, including from their own corrupt politicians.
The claims being made by Gladstone here undermines the wider argument. For example:
The Governor is spending VI’s money. INCORRECT. He is spending UK taxpayers money.
Sleeping in VI’s bed. INCORRECT. It's UK taxpayers money.
...and eating food paid for by VI taxpayers. INCORRECT. It's UK taxpayers money.
... a majority the descendants of slaves. INCORRECT. The majority of tax in VI is paid by ex-pats - as you should well know given how vocal the current government is in complaining about the 70% ex-pat labour force...
The UK taxpayer would be delighted not to have to fork out for the VI so rather than call for unachievable and unconstitutional actions such as the Premier 'moving the Governor out of the territory', instead start working towards independence.
Insulting and degrading to the max.
Attempting at relevancy with erroneous accusations against the rep of the a UK which has afforded him to be "eating bread by the grace of God" in a UK land aplenty.
Clowns belong in a circus. Gov Jasper is in a place where he rightfully belongs and can have this peculiar SadStone thrown out to the dung heap, from whence he came .
But for wat I am hearing on these blog defending this rascal racist @$s Johnny decedents of my forefathers hell it a dam shame. U all bring tears out ur ancestors dead eyes I wish hurricane and the virus wipe all u asses out
Definitely not.
Who it hut it hut.
Please make transparent the hiring process.
Why are white non belongers working there taking away well paid jobs for us locals?
Where are the job adverts?
Why they only employ their white friends & each other??
Please investigate the blatant corruption & cronyism going on there.
One is even selling her hurricane books to us!! Clearly written when she’s meant to be working!
nor the Gov Office.He does have authority though, to investigate and to see that we have water,to see that scooter riders give us the freedom from noise and accidents and uncertain death,to see that undocumented immigrants and criminals from other places are not here as they are in huge supply.. None of these two lil things he has done.
Bouy Jespert got Ritter Freeman our blogging but we will not be move the ra****t governor needs to GO
It is ok to speak out on social ills in the society and you should. What about blacks killing blacks in the bvi. Still waiting to hear you on that. What about expats being degraded in the bvi still waiting to hear you on that. You are or were married to a black lady. Tell me have you ever heard or saw the governor wife or any white wife for that matter in the middle of the night running through the community naked because of blows from their white husbands.
Are you going to comment on black wives running naked through the community naked shouting help. Stay within your lane my friend. You can not swim in deep waters.
The country he abandoned upon being granted permission of UK territory residence, after mounds of paper work and humiliating waiting years,, desperately hoping for the crumb dropped by the
by the UK ,second only to God in answering prayers.
Hmm. Both men who entered west end illegally names we're concealed. Wow, am not at all surprised. The way things are done in the BVI does not support black lives matter but rather state it depends on who you are related too. FACTS. In God we trust.
What a hypocrite and a white supremacist, if you ask me!
Thanks for speaking out I am from here. You are welcome here, you contribute here so you can speak here. Continue to speak the facts on the matter and don’t be discourage. The Governor has insulted us one to many times. It’s time for home to leave. BVI let’s unite BVILOVE. God Bless
The Governor is a UK career civil servant. He is not authorised to state any personal opinions when commenting on the BVI or the UK. Wise up
@two cents, indeed, Governor Jaspert is an opportunist and as other bloggers have noted a media wh*re, ie, likes to be on radio and TV. He craves the media attention he would not have gotten back in the UK, trying to exploit being a big fish in a small pond. He is a narcissist. The Guv clearly is young and ambitious but it is shameful that he is trying to do so on the backs of Virgin Islanders. It is more shameful that he is seemingly digging up slaves and dehumanizing, brutalizing, disrespecting and terrorizing them again. The Guv has been a disaster representing the UK as Kellyanne Conway and Rudy Guiliani does for the Trump administration in the US. He is loose lip that sinks ship. If he were not White, he would have been relieve for cause already; he benefits from White privilege, an outcome from slavery. It will be in the best interest of both the VI and UK if he were to just exit the VI stage left. The VI people has lost confidence in him and if the UK is honest, it should too. Unless, it does not give a damn.
Still no apology from the ku klux klan in go***** house I cry for my bvi