Review-The Price of Sugar

Activist, Pearl Jr reviews today's blockbuster films from a Black perspective

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• Productions
• Elbow
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• Haiti
• Dominican
• Republic
• Sugar
• Cane
• labor

[pernesto8]

man i saw this movie last night and it was soo bad. horrible film making. so many facts are misconstrued. 100% sensational. even the irrelevant points made in the movie are false. and all the so-called family owned bateyes actually belong to the CEA, old abandoned state owned sugar mills. I heard that the film maker, Bill Haney went to high school with one of the family members attacked in the film. Guess they didn't get along back then, so he decided to attack the family now... BAD MOVIE!

[Mayimbez]

meanwhile all the hatian men i saw and met where working ...And not for no F*cking 90 cents a day thats all bullshit.

What they got paid depended on the type of work they did. they did get paid less than dominican workers but they had no problem with it ..Back in 98 i remember the ones working around my town where getting paid btween 75-125 pesos a day with an exchange rate btween 15-16 pesos for every u.s. dollar u do the math and tell me if thats 90cents a day.

[Mayimbez]

when they got back to her she yelled at them i guess she wanted money instead of food. NEXT year i go back same woman now with 3 kids and another woman with like another 2 kids all in the same spot begging not the adults but the kids.

she was well dressed siting on a lawn chair looked pretty healthy to me. I gave each of the kids 1 dollar and as soon as they got back the 2 ladies took it from them ...now the kids where crying and i called them back and gave each of them another dollar.

[Mayimbez]

i felt bad and gave her a few DOLLARS not pesos.

the next year i went saw the baby was big and she was pregnant again but again i gave her like 10 dollars.

Year after that same story now with 2 kids and she was still there right in front of the dollar exchange place. Again year after that i went now the kids where big enough and she had them begging for her while she sat down pregnant AGAIN. I didnt give them money i bought the kids food and drinks.

[Mayimbez]

MY Story,

For 14 years str8 i've been going to DR and back in 96 i started noticing how the hatian population was rising. We didnt think anything bad of it most of them worked selling ice cream buliding houses and what not. But as the years went on i started noticing that the women migrating over wheren't doing anything to improve their life other than beg for money. I saw this hatian lady at the same corner year after year begging for money 1st time i saw her she was pregnant....

[Mayimbez]

@evilchihuahua20

thank you for actually saying the truth.

[Mayimbez]

@GWOZAGO

bet that earthquake changed ur mind about dominicans.

[evilchihuahua20]

2. Maybe in the US 3 or 4 dollars/8 hours sound like a misery but for many countries in latinamerica that´s all they get and sometimes like in Haiti things are even worse, that is why haitians keep coming happily to work in the bateyes because it´s WAY MORE than what they can dream to earn in Haiti.

[evilchihuahua20]

1. Buhlut, if you would take your time to do some reseach before making a dumb comment you would actually realize that first of all "90 cents a day" is just a crappy lie told by these people to make dummies like you that do not take time to research anything end up believing this crap. Google "resolucion 2/2007" and you will see that the minimum salary on the sugar fields for dominicans and foreigners is 3-4 dollars/8 hours :)

[Buhlunt]

Well I'm smart and I live in the caribbean and 90 us cents a day cant do squat in any island. If you were smart you would get your facts right before you start dropping insults.