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#1830: Durban responds to Morse on Haiti's Friends; Simidor comments (fwd)
From:Karioka9@cs.com
Richard Morse couldn't be quite serious about his proposal, but that's what
friends (konpè) do in semi-feudal Haiti. If you are in a bad situation with
too many children on your hands, I will adopt one -- in real terms, this
means getting a restavèk or ti Sentaniz without paying for one. And so why
not "les quatre pays amis" (a rhetorical question)? In this particular case,
Mr. Morse's wit combined down home common sense with a keen sense of the
absurd. A basic requirement for membership on this list, I should think.
But you, Mr. Durban, shouldn't worry. When the occasion arises (lè poul va
pouse dan, i.e. when the chickens grow teeth or come home to roost), the most
alert, the best and the brightest, i.e. the ones with connections and inside
information, will be the first to leave. The same thing happened in Cuba in
1960-61 when the bourgeoisie and the Cuban petty-bourgeoisie fled to Miami,
leaving the soul of the country behindâ?¦ And among the first to return
States-side should be the young deportees of recent yearsâ?¦ Mind you, the
French could easily settle 200,000 enterprising Haitians in "French" Guiana,
as long as there is natural gas to protect the treesâ?¦ Alas, the Rhinvil
children do not augur well for the US response.
Daniel Simidor