HAITI-A new documentary by Harvard Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates examines the relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, neighbors who share the same Island but are separated by language, culture and racial make up. PBS reports:
In the Dominican Republic, Professor Gates explores how race has been socially constructed in a society whose people reflect centuries of inter-marriage, and how the country’s troubled history with Haiti informs notions about racial classification. In Haiti, Professor Gates tells the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic, and finds out how the slaves’ hard fight for liberation over Napoleon Bonaparte’s French Empire became a double-edged sword.
I am not surprise of the Dominicain Republic reaction toward haitiens people and we all know it thanks to Haiti bad governments, Dominicain Republic fleurished ,everytimes something negative happened in haiti about disfonctioned governments ,the Dominicain Republic rejoyed and most of the businesses that used to be in Haiti are in Dominicain Republic right now.
But Jen Max Bellerive is a former Domincan Republic Secret Service officer of high ranking. 20 years of service, he gave to the Dominican republic, and then PM to Haiti under Preval. What?? Of course there is a tie there…..Drugs..