March 19, 2018
Fred Smith’s grandfather, Isaac Ghishan, third child from left standing at the bottom when he was five. He and his four brothers and two sisters and their family migrated from Transjordan after the second world war to Haiti. His father, Fred’s great grandfather, is sitting first left and his great great grandfather is the patriarch in the middle. They were Bedouins from Jordan, of the Hashemite clan and they settled in Madaba, near Amman in Jordan. Fred’s mother’s Bedouin clan are the only Catholic Bedouins who fought for the Holy Roman Empire.
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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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