This email speaks for itself. This lady has made it her business to send this email to the ENTIRE board of Miami-Broward Carnival. All Caribbean bloggers, the person who is renting them the venue and DJ's or people who will be working the SCORCH event. Wow....
Reasons like these are PRECISELY why I REFUSE to play in certain mas bands or go to certain parties/fetes. I will not stand for what people are calling "unprofessionalism". It is not called "unprofessionalism", it is RACISM!!! If I would have gotten that email, it would have to be deleted and I'd be finding somewhere else to go for that time period. I don't know what's more sickening, the fact that they're doing things like this or the people who KNOW they're doing this and will be partying comfortably when that day comes. We are in the year 2013 when will people WAKE UP?! SMHIn 2013 it's sad that as West Indians we can not stick together in a world that is falling apart. In a time made to celebrate unity its been brought to my attention that its our very own that is trying to keep us separate. Miami carnival is less than 2 weeks away and Scorch has been become a staple for party goers because of their reputation in other places , but this year you have to select a committee member to get a ticket. Weird, being last year it was simply first come, first served. Luckily for us being fans of dbandit.com, Dwayne Pitt gave his website viewers permission to select his name as a committee member in order to get tickets for Saturday night . Picture below:Me and 7 of my friends registered over a week ago with islandetickets.com and it told us thank you for registering and approval will be sent via email. As of today September 30, it hasn't happened. Then on Friday, September 28th one of our friends asked us what parties we will be attending for Miami Carnival. We told her and we explained to her we are still waiting for Scorch tickets and she will have to register and wait like everyone else but use Dwayne Pitt as a committee member. She did it. She was approved in less than 24 hours. Me and my friends all checked our inbox and spam to see if we were approved as well...nothing. I instantly said what I was thinking for some time, discrimination. Our friend who was approved is Indian. She has an "Indian name". So I tested my theory. I made another one of my Indian male friends register and my male black friend register at the same time on September 29th using the same committee member; Dwayne Pitt . My Indian friend was approved in less than 12 hours...black friend nada. I then went and made a FAKE account using an "Indian name". It's been a week and I have not heard back regarding tickets under my real name , but my fake account was approved same day for 5 tickets when the max is 4!!!!Im writing to let Scorch committee members know, you are in America now and to leave that unprofessional bullshit elsewhere. I won't be shock if there is an increase of "approvals" for this party to people who's last name are NOT Singh, Patel, khan, etc because of this letter but I do want Scorch committee members to know in a state where a young man was shot walking home in the rain simply because he was black, we have zero tolerance for Caribbean people secluding themselves from OTHER Caribbean people because of the color of their skin. In a time when the Caribbean celebrates together as one, you decided to separate friends from partying together based on NAMES. I have no clue if the rest of the committee members are playing the same game as Mr. Pitt, but what I do know is that he is a reflection of organization and what I see reflecting is unprofessional garbage.Sincerely,Zero Tolerance
