Alas, the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) premier, Hon. Michael Misick, and Hollywood actress LisaRaye McCoy-Misick, won’t live happily ever after. They seem headed for divorce just two years after their fairytale wedding (Grace-Kelly Tiara and all).
Premier Misick and First Lady LisaRaye
For the people of the TCI, this is big news. Gossip is rife about what caused this marriage to become irretrievably broken down.
Remarkably, nobody seems concerned about what it portends for the leadership of our country. And it’s bound to complicate unresolved allegations of rape and corruption against Misick.
Of course, TCIslanders think LisaRaye is leaving Misick for the same principled reason Americans thought Hillary would leave Bill. But Americans had no reason to fear the breakdown of Bill and Hillary’s marriage might cause a breakdown in governance in America.
By contrast, TCIslanders have reason to fear the breakdown of Misick and LisaRaye’s will.
Faulting LisaRaye
A scantily clad LisaRaye once graced the cover of a men’s magazine. But, far from causing shame, it gained her fame. She was an actress, after all. Yet prevailing mores are such that most TCIslanders say the recirculation of that old cover is bringing the TCI into disrepute.
However, even more unforgivable is that LisaRaye is an American. Nativism is such that most TCIslanders resent their premier not marrying a local woman. So they will undoubtedly greet this news of pending divorce with unbridled glee.
But a little perspective seems in order. Mismanagement and misappropriations, reflecting systemic corruption, threaten Misick’s government. We cannot blame LisaRaye for that.
Misick’s notorious and reckless extramarital affairs lend credibility to the rape allegations against him. We cannot blame LisaRaye for this.
Misick boasts of controlling the TCI press. So it’s hardly surprising that they’re propagating his claims against LisaRaye. But blaming her for looting the treasury he controls betrays the patently false nature of his claims.
A lonely American in paradise
I feel obliged to disclose that LisaRaye reached out to me. She did so two months ago after I dared to publish a commentary defending her. I hadn’t met or even spoken to her before then.
But what she shared left me both shocked and surprised. I was shocked because she lamented that no one in the TCI defended her (or offered moral support). After all, Misick was masterminding a media campaign to ruin her reputation. I thought basic decency and kindness would compel someone who reveled in her reflected glow to reach out to her.
I was surprised because she spoke of her role as TCI First Lady with a persuasive sense of duty and public-spiritedness. After all, that would seem laughable coming from Misick.
Her feelings of alienation and disaffection were palpable. And that’s wholly understandable.
Their divorce now seems inevitable. French President Nicolas Sarkozy handled his wife’s decision to divorce him while in office with dignity and discretion. I hope, perhaps against hope, that our premier will do the same – for his and our beloved country’s sake.
Accordingly, my prayers are with Premier Misick and First Lady LisaRaye as they go through this complicated personal and unavoidably public ordeal.
george says
the wedding should nevr have taken place she wanted to be the black garce kelly but she was always too ghetto to be a first lady