12362: RE: 12336: Re: 12336: Re: 12333: Statues to honor Haitian soldiers (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Edy Sanon <esanon@gate.net>

It has always been very scary to be a professional in our Haiti world.
Ordinary citizens have tendence NOT to respect a researcher in academia
while of course it goes vice versa. It so happens that people involved
emotionally in Haitian politics whether inside or outside will always try to
distort even history to their current plot. It is a misfortune for Haiti
when such a society cannot respect the assessment of a professor (of course
that is not subjective).
Professor Manigat is correct in his analysis of the historic presence of
slaves volunteering to fight in Savannah, GA. Now, one can called them
Haitian soldiers for political purposes while a scholar is bound to state
the historic facts with a educated brain subjected to no bias.