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Bahamian lives matter, too.
The warm-weather nation, in the wake of last week’s fatal police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, advised its residents to “exercise particular caution” if traveling to the United States.
Roughly 90% of Bahamas’ population is black — and young men were singled out to take special caution.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration has taken a note of the recent tensions in some American cities over shootings of young black males by police officers,” read a travel advisory.
“In particular young males are asked to exercise extreme caution in affected cities in their interactions with the police,” the advisory continued. “Do not be confrontational and cooperate.”
The warning came after a tumultuous week in which police in Falcon Heights, Minn., and Baton Rouge, La., shot and killed black men in racially charged incidents that remain under investigation.
The shootings were followed by the murders of five Dallas police officers by a black gunman intent on killing white cops.
The travel advisory — ahead of the island’s Independence Day on Sunday when many people travel from the Bahamas — listed the sites of consular offices in the U.S. if the tourists run into any problems.
“If there is any issue please allow consular offices for the Bahamas to deal with the issues,” the advisory said. “Do not get involved in political or other demonstrations under any circumstances and avoid crowds.”
Beryl Edgecombe, founder and president of the New York-based Bahamian American Cultural Society, said she backs the decision to release the advisory.
“I understand their feeling, their concern, because I’m sure they don’t want to count bodies coming home in body bags,” Edgecombe said. “It’s a fatherly advice to our black males and I think this is something that all parents to young black males in both the U.S. and abroad should say.”
But some Caribbean natives now living in the U.S. said they think the Bahamians had gone too far. “I understand the situation and it’s not great but I don’t think you need to spread fear,” said Henry Clarke, 48, who moved to the U.S. from Jamaica 20 years ago.
In the past, Germany and Canada issued travel warnings for residents about gun violence in the U.S., but both lacked the racial aspect of the Bahamian notice.
President Obama, speaking Saturday in Poland, vowed to unite a nation fractured in the last week by the three shooting incidents in as many days.
The U.S., Obama insisted, was not returning to the racially divided era before the civil rights movement of the 1960s led to change.
“The demented individual who carried out those attacks in Dallas is no more representative of black Americans than the shooter in Charleston was representative of white Americans, or shooters in Orlando or San Bernardino were representative of Muslim Americans,” he said.
“They don’t speak for us; that’s not who we are.”
With Chris Sommerfeldt