For many years, native-indigenous St. Martiners have been taken for granted by politicians and certain groups of expats.
The fact that there are not many native St. Martiners in the media contribute to the fact that St. Martiners are never empowered about their rights to be number one in their country.
However, the manner in which the TODAY-newspaper blatantly stated on December 27, 2008, that the 'disappearance of NATIONtalk was the best news in a long time' , along with its usually very hateful anti-St. Martin rhetoric is contributing towards a wave of St. Martin nationalism.
Clearly, this momentum is turning out to bring native-indigenous St. Martiners and other law-abiding residents together.
The program NATIONtalk is the undisputed platform for this powerful grass-roots nation building process.
Not only must the SNBF and the Association L'Esprit de Concordia be credited for this historic development, but also the underestimation and the disrespect towards the natives of this island by the TODAY-newspaper and its associated bloggers have been reversed on them in a wave of nationalism, that can see St. Martiners and other Antilleans demanding their righful roles in the development of this island.
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Leopold James
President SNBF & L'Esprit de Concordia
