Dr. Dread I wish the best for your family and my Jamaican brothers and sisters in general!

thanks a million, Josean.

Dready, the Kingston community of Standpipe would be a nice place to send our resident loco Josean to pick mangos.




Anyway, hopefully people and property are safe with this storm.

how did you know about Standpipe, Atabey? do you know what a standpipe is? it is just a pipe where poor people could get their drinking water. thanks for the kind wishes.

IRS Atabey is calling for Carte Blanche NEW TAXES for the same corrupt PURPLE Criminals that have Cooked the Books, without a FORENSIC Accounting and Accountability and I am LOCO!

Go do your forensic accounting under the Mango tree in Standpipe, Kingston, Jamaica.



Dready,

How do I know? I pay close attention to the news. Thought it the perfect place, outside of putting Josean in a yola in high sea, during the current storm.

Comedy, like EVERYTHING ELSE, is not one of your FORTES!

I don't care about those wastelands (Jamaica, Haiti).. Hope everyone's OK in Cuba and DR.

Speaking of IDIOTS!

In southwestern Haiti, a woman died in the town of Camp Perrin after she was swept away by a river she was trying to cross, according to Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, head of the country's civil protection office. There were also reports of extensive damage to Port Salut along Haiti's far-southwestern coast after a river burst its banks. Local municipal official Darius Joseph said some residents had left their flooded homes for shelter in schools and churches.

Ateo_LovesDR:

I'm sorry Haiti and Jamaica did not have a chance to be self-deniggarized. But, I'm telling you this: Haiti is your soul-food currently inside your stomach. Haiti is also your soul-mate (currently ;) attached to your right side.
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I'm deeply saddened about Sandy's devastating effect on our islands this late October causing at least 1 death in Jamaica, and 1 in my SW side of Haiti (with some reports say SW, and MiamiHerald says North of Haiti).

says williom

I'm sorry Haiti and Jamaica did not have a chance to be self-deniggarized.

i am sorry your parents were not sterilized.

Sarcasm, Dready! Sarcastic response to the IloveDR comment! Then again, I'm often misunderstood. Fine by me ;) I always mean well.

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Written by: IloveDR, 24 Oct 2012 11:07 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
I don't care about those wastelands (Jamaica, Haiti).. Hope everyone's OK in Cuba and DR.
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my response was to you, for using the word deniggarized. i have read blogs from many countries in the region, but the DR takes the cake when it comes to posters making anti black remarks. what the heck is the problem that people in this country have with black skin? i have seen black people here. some nitwits here believe this country is Iceland.

Dready,

Read a good historical account of this island called Santo Domingo, La Espanola, Saint Dominique by the French and you'll get your answer. BTW, it was HINT! in the French colony that the inhumanity of the French produced the seeds of racial hatred that would lead the revolting Haitians to extermination campaigns against Whites or blancs. In addition, and most apropos to your inquest, the designation 'blanc' or white as a category was de-legitimized and made UNCONSTITUTIONAL in the Haitian Constitution. I contend that this IS in fact the well-spring from which so much racial conflict has arisen on this island.

"Les petits blancs (the small whites) were lower-class whites who generally comprised the merchant class of Saint-Domingue. The French Revolution coincided perfectly with their notions of 'equality, liberty and fraternity.' To display their solidarity with the ideas that led to that revolution, les petits blancs wore red cockades, which led to their being ca

which led to their being called pompons rouges ('the red pompoms'). They stiffly resented the grand blancs, who were determined to keep them from rising into the upper class. In turn, les petits blancs were hated by the gens de couleur, who were a social rung below them.

Les grands blancs (the big whites) were the powerful, slave-owning class of whites. Though sharply in the minority (outnumbered by blacks approximately 1000 to 1 at the height of the slave trade), they controlled both wealth and power, and so it was they who ruled. They became notably wealthy, some owning commercial ventures in France as well as their slave-driven plantations in Saint-Domingue. They railed against the ideas and supporters of the French Revolution, which in essence aimed to chop out the heart of the master-slave relationship that built and sustained their dominant influence. They advertised their unity in this matter by wearing a white cockade, and from that took the name pompons blancs

They advertised their unity in this matter by wearing a white cockade, and from that took the name pompons blancs ('the white pompoms')."


It's a complicated racial antagonism that dates several centuries, but whose origins lies deep within that inhuman French created inferno called Saint Dominique.

Affranchis


Vincent Ogé, affranchis delegate from Saint-Domingue.

Essentially French colonial Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) had three main social classes: French planters (grands blancs), affranchi landholders, and slaves of African ancestry. The affranchi were mostly light-skinned (mulattoes) free persons of color, the offspring of white French men and African women. As such, the affranchi had legal and social advantages over the slave classes.

They were able to own land and attend some French colonial entertainments. They could not hold administrative posts or work as doctors or lawyers. They were also forbidden to wear the style of clothes favored by the wealthy white colonists. In spite of the disadvantages, many affranchi identified themselves culturally with France rather than with the enslaved population.

Yet many whites detested them. In fact, the term affranchi, meaning "ex-slave" was an insult term, designed to remind wealthy men and women who had been born in free

says HaitiKing

HAve you cl0wns heard of ( LEE SCRATCH PERRY)
he is Jamaican
he is The G0D of MUSIC

i am surprised that he ranks number 100 on billboard, in the best pop artist of all time category.

go listen to a song called Lee Scratch Perry On The Wire, on youtube.

Yet many whites detested them. In fact, the term affranchi, meaning "ex-slave" was an insult term, designed to remind wealthy men and women who had been born in freedom that whites considered them still to be ex-slaves, because of their African ancestry. Whites' belief that anything linked with Africa, even by the slightest drop of blood, was abject and debasing and identified with being inferior. Mulattoes had reasoned that they had to distance themselves from their African roots in an attempt to receive more acceptance from the white colonists. One of their leaders, the indigo planter Julien Raimond, claimed they owned a third of all the slaves in the colony. Many were committed to maintaining slavery in the early years of the French Revolution and Haitian Revolution."


This French racial malaise made its way across the border and triggered a Dominican response that featured similar racial identification, i.e., "I'm not African" as in "I'm not Haitian' response.

Thanks Atabey! That enhances what I've learned.

Dready! I'm Haitian from the most southwestern tip of the island, and as black as Eddie Murphy. I've used that strong word (synonym to anti-haitianismo to me) to make a point. Too much hating around as if being born black is a birth defect. And, I am sorry if I've offended you or anyone else here.

The original Haitian Constitution 1801 did not outlaw white as a category. This came with the radicalization of the revolution under Dessalines.

"Dessalines did not try to hide the massacre from the world. In an official proclamation of 8 April 1804, he stated, "We have given these true cannibals war for war, crime for crime, outrage for outrage. Yes, I have saved my country, I have avenged America". He referred to the massacre as an act of national authority. Dessalines regarded the elimination of the white Haitians an act of political necessity, as they were regarded as a threat to the peace between the black and the colored. It was also regarded as a necessary act of vengeance. He was, however, eager to assure that Haiti was not a threat to other nations and that it sought to establish friendly relations also to nations where slavery was still allowed.

In the 1805 constitution, all citizens were defined as "black",and white men were banned from owning land."

"The 1804 massacre had a long lasting effect on the view of the Haitian Revolution and helped to created a legacy of racial hostility in Haitian society."- Wikipedia.


A notable long lasting effect was in racial relationships on the island.

williom, my sincere apologies. i read this the wrong way. when one debates, or attempts to debate, with low grade morons like vacanos, one becomes very defensive. i thought that you were suggesting that Haitians are nigg*rs, and i am having none of it.

HaitiKing, then i guess you know that he is as crazy as it gets.. mad as heck. he burned down his own studio, because he said evil spirits were haunting it.