it’s always the whites fault.
In areas that are really dark like Haiti, Jamaica and Domican Republic, it becomes blame the shades...the lighter the more blame worthy.
or blame Indians, Chinese, Maronites and Sephardic Jewish communities that often prosper in a sea of dark people.
The Negro race plays this blame gang everywhere they are and wherever it suits them.
Blame the colonial, blame the creole, blame the Mullatto and so forth
sometimes it leads to brutal hand wrought personal violence the likes we rarely see here in the US.
even Rwanda had shades of this...not so much color although some would argue the Tutsis were a hair lighter and less bush looking. the Tutsis were more successful, more educated, controlled more and had a history of being more compatible with the colonials and more “act white”
I’ve lived in and observed this sorta thing all my life and it ain’t pretty....
just look at America...rare is the “black leader” who is not at least 1/4 to 1/2 white or at least appears to be mullatto....they get scorned too with redbone and high yella and all that talk
Haitians put an end to slavery on the island of Hispaniola. Their rewards and recognition for that are listed below on this post.
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So politically un-correct of you, there are lib lurkers who would like to take you out behind the woodshed for what you just said.
And it was the spot on truth too.
Both comments are SPOT ON!
The first time I heard the "N-word" (God, how cowed we now are) in public was as a kid in NYC in the mid-'40s. My dad was in the merchant service then and from his experiences there, held a low opinion of Africans, calling them his own slur of "Blacks", which is what I used . The "N-word" was considered "po buckra" (white trash according to my Southern mom).
I was sitting in the john at school one day and heard two guys arguing and one guy says, "You think you're hot stuff when you ain't nuthin but an 'N'!" I thought, boy there's gonna be a fight between a black and white guy and looked out. The argument was between a black guy and a mulatto.
I was in Haiti in the '50s and even then the poverty was stunning as well as its hatred towards the lighter skinned natives, who as you point out, were the dominant class.
Sometimes this “shading” process leads light-skinned blacks to become “super black” in their posture. Witness Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who is at most 1/8th black, but wears dashikis and acts like both of his parents were dragged here in chains and whipped daily.
Although they did give Manley a pass, but only because he was a whore for the unions in Kingston.