POTPOURRI OF OPINING

First, to our fellow Kittitian, Mr. Huggins, we thank you for exposing our blog to the people of St. Kitts/Nevis and the U.S. Virgin Islands. We also understand that our countrymen are vexed with us because we said in a recent blog that light-skinned blacks were in all the positions of authority-I should have qualified my statements by saying that when we were growing up there. We are told now that the positions of power in St. Kitts/Nevis are held by hues of all stripes. You have also asked Mr. Huggins what essentially is the two members of Verily Prime’s philosophy; simple, we approach all that we do from a traditional Christian point of view-meaning, if a given behavior was wrong when the Christ walked the earth in the flesh, it is still wrong...no matter how many of us are engaged in said proscribed behavior (s). Case in point, over a weak ago, someone on Craigslist loved the blog and wanted us to write for his online venture. Only thing is that this potential employer wanted the members of Verily Prime to be Conservative just for the sake of being Conservative–this is why we cannot watch the likes of Hannity or listen to Rush Limbaug--. Of course, we refused our potential suitor...although we could have used the mammon. What this potential employer was proposing was that even if a staunch Democrat like our father was correct on a given issue, because we are supposedly Conservative, we would have to oppose him. Our mantra or refrain is that the truth is not relative and there are times when Democrats are right too. We will not oppose President Obama when he is telling the truth or engaging in Christian endeavors because the members of Verily Prime strive to be objective, and moreover, our faith requires it. In New York, where we reside, we do not like ex Mayor Giuliani...because we think that he is rank racist--yet, we are objective enough to say that he cleaned up New York when he was mayor. The reason we hold the ex mayor in low esteem is that during Giuliani’s campaign for mayor to replace New York’s first Black Mayor, Dinkins, we watched as cops on the courtroom steps, called Mayor Dinkins, "nigger" this and "nigger" that, over some dispute about benefits. The salient fact was that Giuliani never chastised those racist police officers for the disrespect showed to his predecessor. In addition, during the wrongful shooting of Amandou Diallo by some of New York’s finest, then Mayor Giuliani was brutal in the way he treated the mother of the victim. Back then, we were struck on the fact that here was a mayor wrapping himself in moral superiority and he was once married to his first cousin. We conveyed these facts to show that we will take on all comers and if we are being hypocritical, we also will let you know we are being so. Another example is that when the author of this blog served in the US Army, I did what most young men did...sowed my wild oats. Now, as a Christian, my God calls my exploits then, sinful (fornication); so because my flesh enjoyed the sex and it felt good, should I say it was ok-of course not...because the tenets of my faith say otherwise. I conveyed this to show that we do not even spare ourselves...I do not even want to get into what the other member of Verily Prime have engaged in...before he saw the proverbial Light.

-Verily Prime