Locally there was never even a mention or a breath of concern that this was a racial issue nor a status issue.

Because the three boys pointed their fingers at these two security guards, and they couldn't leave that out of the loop. There was no reason to believe the boys were lying.

You just have to come up with something, because there really, really is no differentiation between the blacks and the whites here and the browns. ... Nobody gets preference in that regard.

We put out the welcome mat and we were trampled upon, ... We all wanted to help, but we never thought this would become a case against Aruba.

These horrible e-mails, just horrible, ... They were from both blacks and whites from there in the United States, only the United States, criticizing Aruba and how they planned to never set foot on Aruba ever again ... because of the cruelty against these two security guards, how it was so obvious to anyone around the world ... that this was discrimination.