Fredrick Smith's Discrimination Is The Bahamian Political Crack !

The Bahamas is recognized as a popular tourist destination. Each year hundreds of foreigners from America, and other parts of the world flock to its shores and Bahamians are notorious for treating their guest like royalty. Haitians are another group of foreigners also flock to the shores of the Bahamas. However, only a few of these people receive open arms of love and affection like the Americans or other nationalities that visit the Bahamas. In Fredrick Smith’s article “Discrimination is the Bahamian Political Crack!” he speaks about the different forms of discrimination and hatred that occurs in the Bahamas. Smiths’ main point is that “The Bahamas is a nation seeping in a culture of discrimination and human rights abuses”. I agree that Discrimination …show more content…
Smith uses provoking words and phrases such as, hateful, vicious, abusive, schizophrenic, terrorism, and lawlessness. Words such as these can stir up his readers and Bahamians may feel as if Smith is attacking them. His diction was quite successful, it stirred his audience and he received a reaction from his audience. As this essay was read in the classroom, many of the students were irate and perplexed that the author labelled every Bahamian as being vicious, and …show more content…
On page 71 he compared the Bahamas to a sheep in wolf clothing. This metaphor was used to describe the Bahamian people as pleasant and smiling on the inside and discourteous on the outside. He also uses Allusion, this is evident on page 72 where he stated “…. Pandered to the lynch mob. Smith has painted the picture of the politicians as an angry mob fuelling discrimination. Another persuasive literary device he uses was his use of Anaphora phrases. Due to the fact he used this technique he captivated the emotion of the audience by repeating the same phrases over and over to capture the audience attention. When Smith uses Anaphora in the passage he is putting a great deal of emphasis on the matter and he captivates the readers. Some examples of anaphora phrases used are when he kept using the word discrimination; “discrimination by the blacks against the whites, discrimination by the black and white Bahamians in the 70s’ and discrimination against the poor”. By using the word or phrase often it becomes rhythmic to the audience and they can easily remember what he was talking about. Smith also used comparison and contrast. In Paragraph 2 he stated that Bahamians can be “kind, appreciative, welcoming and gracious”. He then went on to say that they can be hateful, abusive and vicious. His uses of devices enhances his viewpoint and he paints a mental image for his readers to understand the depth