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[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: D. Esser <torx@joimail.com>

What does skin color have to do with the current wave of killings in
Port-au-Prince? As the Haitian proverb, 'neg rich se milat; milat pov
se neg', illustrates, it is your class affiliation that matters more
than skin color. Of course skin color has it's importance in the
discourse because it has been used from the beginning of slavery to
oppress African peoples. But in societies where there's no discernible
difference in skin color between the people in the ghettoes and those
up in the hills, repression exists. As the colonizers noted, it is
far easier though to set the criteria for discrimination along the
pigment content of the skin...