Racism and White Supremacy
The descendants of Benjamin Honey in Malaga Island are racially diverse. Benjamin was a Black man, and his wife, Patience, was Irish. The mixed-race descendants of Benjamin later intermarried with other races on the island to form a large group of racially diverse cultures. Paul Harding shows how this racially diverse community lived in harmony and supported each other during calamities until the white supremacists arrived.
The peaceful coexistence of the racially diversity community of Malaga Island was disturbed by the arrival of a white racist schoolteacher called Mathew. Mathew did not like being around the Black adults. Mathew helped the government in promoting violence, colonialism, and racism. The white missionaries who joined Mathew later to introduce Christianity discriminated against the people of color in Malaga Island.
