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QUOTE OF THE DAY
The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes
1904-1990
American Journalist
SHOWCASE
SOUTH MIAMI DADE’S GROWING
TROPICAL FRUIT INDUSTRY.
(extracts from the the Miami Heralds 27/7/07)
Roger Washington, owner of the Red Dragon Fruit Co. in Homestead,
holds one of his company's namesake fruits.
At Gaby’s Farms, owner (Haitian-American) Gabrielle Berryer helped
build demand for the ice creams she has created from mango, guava, lyches, canistel, guanabana and black sapote fruit at outdoors festivals.
Now she sells the ice cream to specialty markets and other stores around South Florida.
CARL FOMBRUN
ON WPBR 1340 AM
WEEKDAYS 7.15 AM
COAST TO COAST
ON WPBR: REMARKS BY CARL FOMBRUN
Monday, 30 July 2007
HAITI
THE RENAISANCE OF HAITIAN POETRY
( source, principally, from Naomi M. Garret)
The American Occupation
The impact of the United States Occupation of Haiti in 1915 upon the Haitian elite was at first stunning. The clash of two widely differing ideologies had caused a brutal and violent shock, the brunt of which the Haitians had to bear. All that they held dear -- their traditions, institutions, customs, and laws – had been crushed, or, worse still, had been made fun of. Haitians had been made conscious, in a belittling manner, of the racial characteristics which distinguished them from the powerful white Americans in their country. To fight the feeling of inferirority the white Americans had managed to engender within them, they turned within themselves and to their distant past to seek what there was, in their traditions and their heritage of which they could be proud, something entirely theirs and inaccesisble to the white American occupants. In the course of their search, they found within their national consciouness, sentiments, impressions, and consceptions which for generations had been discarded and forgotten.
Haitians were helped in this endeavor by the ethnological lectures and essays of a prominent Haitian intellectual Dr. Jean Price- Mars, a graduate of the School of Medicine of the University of Paris, and later a student of anthropology at that renowned institution and the Collège de France. In the preface to the book which contains thes studies, Price-Mars states that his purpose is to “relever au peuple haitien la valeur de son folklore” i.e. to raise in the eyes of the Haitian people the value of its folklore. He chides his fellow Haitians who feel “ une gêne…voire quelque honte” i.e. an embarassment…a shame” on hearing about their distant past, a past which extends much farther that many of them had formerly wanted to believe.
To bolster the morale of his Haitian readers, Dr. Price-Mars apprises them that Negroes are not “ des rebuts d’humanité, sans histoire, sans morale, sans religion, auxquels il fallait infuser n’importe comment de nouvelles valeurs morales, une nouvelle investiture humaine ». Translation : Black people are not the scum of society without a history, without moral, without religion, to whom one must infuse in any way , shape, or form, new moral values, new human investiture. Dr. Price-Mars exposes the fact that as a result of of recent scientific research, it has been established that “ il y a eu, à un certain moment donné, sur le continent africain, des centres de civilisation nègres dont, non seulement on a retrouvés les vestiges, mais dont l’éclat a rayonné par delà les limites de la steppe et du désert”. Translation : There was a time, on the African continent, centers of Negro civilization which historians have not only found the remains but also their historical sparkles worldwide. Price-Mars gives a detailed description and history of these centers of culture, recounting their political organization, their grandeur, their industrial and artistic prosperity, their relation with the rest of the world, all that was compatible with essential qualities of their genius.
FRENCH SECTION
LE COIN DE CARL
LES GENS HEUREUX…
Bonjour Miami, ses alentours et les « internôtres » qui écoutent
et nous lisent à travers le monde.
CHAQUE JOUR EST À LUI SEUL UNE VIE.
Dieu, le travail et la liberté. Et bonjour, bonjour la vie,
bonjour l’amour,
moi’j vais bien et’j m’habitue.
Les gens heureux n’ont pas d’histoires…Les gens
heureux ils font l’histoire. La ballade des gens heureux sur
LE COIN DE CARL parlant de tout et de rien
continue, dans un verbe
d’arc-en-ciel .
Le temps poursuit sa marche et avec lui avance le monde,
espérons aussi Haiti.
LA PENSÉE PERMANENTE
« Tu n’as qu’une Patrie au monde.
C’est toi-même. Chante pour elle
Et sois ton but, et sois ta vie.
Les déserts chanteront pour te répondre en chœur. »
