St. Maarten Private Eye

I take offence with your statement that the Dutch government will not give self governance to our people of color. I am quite tired of racism played out in all fields and levels with serious issues on sxm. I am tired of the racism card period! and that includes the racist card played out in US politics as well.
Lets look at the serious issues here: The Netherlands gave independance to Suriname, a country of multiple colors and look what the world got: Bouterse who killed off many opponents and the country today is still reeling back from his milatary rule today with court cases against people from his cabinet.
The Netherlands gave independance to Indonesia and look what the world got: a country today poverty stricken, a country considered harboring muslim fundamental terrorists and maybe having training camps for Al Queada. A country considered dangerous for travelors as a nightclub was bombed sometime ago killing US, European and Australian tourists.
You should be looking at the record SXM has for running our own governing affairs, our political maturity of the people, our level of qualifications of our people who can hold a high profile job and do his/her work well. Please do not bring racism into an issue that is irreleveant, it is ignorant and a easy excuse of keeping our people down, meaning the people will never reach for the sky in education or our political figures will never give proper account of managing the peoples bussiness like they should, it is easier to just play the racism card and look the other way -away from the real truth.