EXCLUSIVE: ‘I am no racist!’ – Governor Duncan
Governor Duncan was responding to questions by this news site during an exclusive interview today November 20, 2014.
The question was premised on statements made by Duncan's predecessor William Boyd McCleary, who made the infamous statement, "I am not a racist."
"In the United Kingdom racism is a crime. That is very clear. On a personal level some people chose to misrepresent what I said in my opening statement [following my arrival in the Territory] that I was brought up in Africa," Governor Duncan said.
"I was not making a statement about racism. I was making a comment about the person that you would see as your Governor," he said.
"I'm probably different to some of the other governors that they might have seen because my heritage is a different heritage. I did not grow up in South London or somewhere like that. I grew up in an African country," he said.
"So I have a different background and I am proud of that heritage," he said. "It would be rather peculiar if someone with that heritage was a racist because I did not grow up in a white community. I grew up in a mixed community," he said.
"To answer your question more directly I suspect that there might be a few people who have put their lives on the line to deal with people being racist," he said.
He stated that one of his assignments was working to bring peace during the war in Kosovo, where it was racism between Europeans of different ethnicities; between Slavs and Albanians.
"I took up arms to protect those people who were engaged in that fight. So they are not many people who could say that they have put their life on the line to protect other people of different ethnicities," he said.
"It is an issue that on a personal level I find completely abhorrent. How could one human being [determine that he] is better or worse than another? It is completely inconceivable to me and that we should go even further than that and discriminate I find it totally abhorrent," he said.
49 Responses to “EXCLUSIVE: ‘I am no racist!’ – Governor Duncan”
Makes no difference to you if the man is a good man, a fair man, a wise man or a decent human being - you don't want to know!
Some of all you just want to hate on all whites every opportunity ayo get.
So one ting I know: Is YOU who racist.