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To: Eleutheria5
He was actually advocating violence towards the Haitian upper class from the getgo.

Did you mean the French? I assume it was the French and the slaves. Nobody else. I didn't watch the video yet. But I need to check it out when I get a chance to do so.

81 posted on 03/27/2024 5:34:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

No, the mulatto elites that were the ruling class after the French left. Like in America, monsier la massa couldn’t keep his hands off the pretty house slaves, so made mulattos, who were also slaves, but higher up on the pecking order during slavery. So afterwards, they remained on top. Had more education, even if that meant that they were merely literate or knew on which side to put knives and forks, and how to bow elegantly. And as Haitian society evolved, they remained in the upper classes, and were the bosses of agriculture and whatever industry there was, and became officers in the military.

When, after winning his second term, Father Aristide was still extolling the virtues of “per le brun” (brother car tire), a euphemism for the South African practice of “necklacing,” it became clear that he wanted not just reparations from France, for which an argument could be made, but also revenge on the upper-class mulattos. But the clips shown in the video showing the crowds outside the palace calling for his ouster, were not mulattos but ink-dark blacks, which strikes me as strange.


84 posted on 03/27/2024 6:18:38 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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