March 19, 2018
TOP LEFT: The young Fred Smith is circled with a hairstyle to stand out from the crowd at school. TOP RIGHT: Arabella Simms, Fred Smith’s great-great-grandmother. ABOVE: The young Fred Smith and his family in Haiti in 1956. From left, his sister Gladys, his father, his sister Norma holding Fred as a baby, his mother Julia and then his sister Joyce. ABOVE RIGHT: Baby Fred at the age of five months.
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In the recent heated and vituperative public reactions to my Human Rights advocacy against the continued victimisation and abuse visited by the Government of The Bahamas upon our Haitian ethnic minority - and the vocal threats on my safety and life - I was moved to react to a particularly savage attack upon me in a voice note circulating widely on social media by a Mr Bannister, a self-proclaimed “True Born and Bred Bahamian”.
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