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8592: Re: 8587: Re: 8585: GOP gaining Haitian voters (fwd)
From: Paulette Smith <psmith@emerald.tufts.edu>
<<If you are Haitian and side with the elites and Duvalierists<========
I am getting so confused with this prolonged divisive debate...
And here I go... doubting all my memories of those years growing up in
Haiti...
I thought Duvalierists were "of the "Middle class" so called...
and certainly, as PAPA DOC stressed, "NOIRS"
whereas so called, "mulatres" - by virtue of
their "teinted" blood, were automatically classified as "suspicious"
individuals" - traitors of the race... ... ..
In addition if those "shady" individuals chose to express themselves
in the streets in French?! : oppressors of the masses!
but yet, one remembers Papa Doc's famous looong speeches to the
"citoyens" (the masses?) in a "scholarly" French!
Did we grow up in the same place?...
Who - what is "elite" ???????????
PAS
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001,
Bob Corbett wrote:
>
> From: LAKAT47@aol.com
>
> In a message dated 07/07/2001 5:48:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time, leonie
> hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com> sends in an article:
>
> <<If you've been to a Broward County Republican Party meeting or fundraiser,
> then you've seen Lucy Orlando<<
>
>
> << She criticized former President Bill Clinton for giving financial aid to
> Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, whom she said has not done enough
> to help poor people and reduce violence.
> ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
> This is not a big surprise. If you are Haitian and side with the elites and
> Duvalierists, you will be comfortable in the Republican party even if you are
> black. If you want change and a better life for the majority of Haitians in
> Haiti, you will not. I have to laugh at the last paragraph, as though
> helping poor people is the first thing in Lucy's mind. The Republican Party
> is the party of the rich. If you are middle class and below, and are a
> Republican, you are just a vote. The party's programs do nothing for you.
> In this case of Haitians going Republican, it's just another dividing line in
> Haitian society, like speaking French vs Kreyòl.
>
> Kathy Dorce~
>
>