I came back home to stay sometime in November 1993. And from then I have been discriminated in many ways without having nowhere to go and put my complaint to seek justice. Discrimination has another word that goes along with it, which is ?victimization?.

I have recently been told that not everything is discrimination, that there are differences, and when it concerns the education of our children it is part of the educational process, so that they can learn that in the real world, these differences which I refer to as ?discrimination,? are a normal way of life. According to our educational process, a child must learn to live with it and to accept it as part of the Belizean way of life.

Our discrimination system in our country started with the coming of the British pirates who afterwards called themselves the ?Baymen Clan.? Many are proud of their mediocrity and their inferiority; they make from it their philosophical ideology. Many of us have been crying from the depths of the wilderness and our voices haven?t been heard.

Am I saying something that no one knows? I am a person, a human being of Maya and African descent. The national flag, anthem and the history of my country from the perspective of the Battle of St. George?s Caye, are discriminatory to me and my people. Why should the national flag carry 50 leaves to represent the so-called birth of a political party?

Didn?t the People?s United Party come out from the People?s Committee, and the People?s Committee from the General Workers Union, and these from the British Honduras Workers and Tradesmen Union, and these from the Labourers and Unemployed Association, and these from the Unemployed Brigade, etc.? So the 50 leaves that encircle the Coat of Arms which remind us of the People?s United Party, does it want us to feel, or they want to remind us, that we are not them?

We are psychologically harassed and discriminated for not having a say in the People?s United Party national flag. They are obliging our innocent children from over 25 years to have love and pride in something which does not represent all Belizeans.

Many of our Belizean people have acknowledged that we have been discriminated and deliberately taken out of the national anthem. Someone said somewhere that we are all sons of the ?Baymen Clan.? Who were the ?Baymen Clan?? My father was not a ?Baymen Clan.?

I know where my roots are from and I know where I am standing, and I also know that the majority of my country people know who they are. My respects for those who are the real ?sons of the Baymen?s Clan?; it is not a personal thing. It is a (Nation in the Making) national thing. Stop discriminating us. Arise! Ye sons of the Belizean soil.

Your ego is too strong to be a Christian. You have naked yourself unto the eyes of the world. Muerto el rey; que viva el rey.

Respectfully,

(Signed) Clinton Uh Luna

Finca Solana

Corozal Town