THE HISTORY OF THE FNM

The history of the Free National Movement is to sell itself as a superior organization, where market forces are the foundation. They are all about business and protecting the bottom line. Therefore the ordinary Bahamians are an annoyance to them. That is why any social welfare policy is not attractive to them.

The PLP on the other hand is a party, a movement, a coming together of a people through the struggle. It is the majority who are always left out of the economic pie.

Since the UBP days, the game plan was for the mercantile elite to control every slice of bread we eat. So they grabbed the port to tax everyone before products even reach the supermarket.

They enacted laws that crippled the people over the hill while making it easy for the whites to do business uninhibited and virtually tax-free.
No one can refute that even the banks walked in lockstep with the wishes of the Eastern Road.

Don’t forget that the board of directors at the banks were all whites or indoctrinated blacks who were happy to be accepted by the whites. Of course, the blacks were only selected to keep their knees on their black brothers necks. This tactic is employed to take the negativity from the real oppressors. So blacks were encouraged to fight among themselves.

The FNM catered to the whites and continued making it real hard for us to advance, plain and simple.

Today, it is sickening to see the same blacks who were able to raise their game to the middle class, quickly abandoned the party that helped them to elevate. They started behaving white and wanted nothing to do with their past.

That’s how the FNM got its base.

The game continued by destroying the middle class and increasing the number of people who became dependent. But their overzealousness blinded them from seeing that the more they ostracized us, the larger our party grew.

So today there are more ordinary Bahamians than elite FNM with a superiority complex. Thus the propensity to suppress us backfired, now the FNM has no base.

Prime Minister Philip Davis said he intends to “wipe every tear from every eye!”
Once he achieves this, it will help the PLP remain in the government for decades to come.

Post Views: 1,399