Massacre des Haïtiens en RD. El General has found his word: perejil.

Publié par siel sur 28 Octobre 2013, 14:35pm

Massacre des Haïtiens en RD

"Out of the swamp the cane appears

to haunt us, and we cut it down. El General
searches for a word; he is all the world
there is. Like a parrot imitating spring,
we lie down screaming as rain punches through
and we come up green. We cannot speak an R—
out of the swamp, the cane appears
There is a parrot imitating spring.
El General has found his word: perejil.
Who says it, lives. He laughs, teeth shining
out of the swamp. The cane appears
in our dreams, lashed by wind and streaming.
And we lie down. For every drop of blood
there is a parrot imitating spring.
Out of the swamp the cane appears.
The word the general’s chosen is parsley.
The general sees the fields of sugar
cane, lashed by rain and streaming.
He sees his mother’s smile, the teeth
gnawed to arrowheads. He hears
the Haitians sing without R’s
as they swing the great machetes:
He will order many, this time, to be killed
for a single, beautiful word... " -
[Segments from 'Parsley' - Rita Dove]

If you disagree with the DR court ruling, boycott DR tourism

says Jocelyn McCalla:

“It was convenient for decades to import Haitians to cut sugar

cane and build roads and fancy hotels,

and even their new subway system,” Jocelyn McCalla said,

“but now they don’t care about the children of those workers.”

Meanwhile, McCalla suggests “tourism should be targeted.”
If thousands of American tourists suddenly started boycotting idyllic Dominican resorts like Puerto Plata and Punta Cana, they’d get the message down there that racism is bad for business."
Read more:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/gonzalez-citizenship-haitians-threatened-article-1.1493523

The Dominican government estimates that hundreds

of thousands of Haitian immigrants enter their country

illegally each year – with concerns that the number

is increasing dramatically since January's devastating earthquake

in Port-au-Prince.

At the same time, the Dominican economy depends on cheap,

ill-treated – Haitian labor to fuel the sugar, tourist, and construction industries.

Haitians and Haitian descendents who live in

the Dominican Republic often talk about severe racism

and mistreatment; Dominicans talk about how Haitians

take jobs and tap already strained public resources.

"If you have no country, nobody is providing you services

and nobody is protecting your rights."

Altagracia Jean Joseph was born in the Dominican Republic

and has a Dominican birth certificate and national ID.

But for three years now, authorities have refused to give

her the copy of her birth certificate that she needs to attend university.

They told her that her last name is ‘weird’ (code for ‘Haitian’).

She now exists in legal limbo, lacking official citizenship, deprived of fundamental civil, political, economic, cultural, and social rights.

"The fear of the Dominican Republic, of being pulled down

to the level of Haiti economically and the 'blackening'

of the country, has been an obsession of Dominican politicians

for well over a century."
David Abraham, Law professor-University of Miami