March 31, 2009 — In Rwanda there is an epithet flung at people who are undisciplined. "They are not serious," Rwandans say, which presumes they are also "not correct."
The remark reverberates whenever we learn of the further street theater being performed by a few of the delegates elected to fashion a constitution for the Virgin Islands.
The show being performed regularly on the public's dime is choreographed specifically to further the public profile of the dancers.
Most of the people involved in the melee are long-lost politicos with no possibility of ever again holding a meaningful position in the Virgin Islands. So, is it their swan song?
No matter. They are simply "not correct."
Maybe that is the whole point … children acting up on stage simply because they can. Because they are so contentious everyone is afraid to correct them.
But what about the people who put them on the stage — the people who voted for them?
In a place like Rwanda, where deliberate divisiveness led to one of the most horrific genocides in recorded history, people cannot afford to act out this way.
Being serious is the only road to recovery and lasting peace among people who have been badly damaged.
If committed, adult Virgin Islanders (no matter when or where they were born) were serious about taking an honorable place in history. If they were correct, they would shut down this farce.
The play is bad, though many of the actors are very serious and correct.
As usual though, they are upstaged by the buffoons.
What a very sad waste of the time and the energy of the serious.
What a terrible show.
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