Dessa vez uma citação da citação, transcrevo o que disse o francófono Père Labat em 1743 sobre o Caribe - o que, segundo Franklin Knight, continua com a mesma força:
"I have travelled everywhere in your sea of the Caribbean...from Haiti to Barbados, to Martinique and Guadeloupe, and I know what I am speaking about...
You are all together, in the same boat, sailing the same uncertain sea...citizenship and race unimportant, feeble little labels compared to the message that my spirit brings to me: that of the position and predicament which History has imposed upon you...
I saw it first with dance... the merengue in Haiti, the beguine in Martinique and today I hear, de mon oreille morte, the echo of calypsoes from Trinidad, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Dominica and the legendary Guiana...
It is no accident that the sea wich separates your lands makes no difference to the rhythm of your body."
"I have travelled everywhere in your sea of the Caribbean...from Haiti to Barbados, to Martinique and Guadeloupe, and I know what I am speaking about...
You are all together, in the same boat, sailing the same uncertain sea...citizenship and race unimportant, feeble little labels compared to the message that my spirit brings to me: that of the position and predicament which History has imposed upon you...
I saw it first with dance... the merengue in Haiti, the beguine in Martinique and today I hear, de mon oreille morte, the echo of calypsoes from Trinidad, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Dominica and the legendary Guiana...
It is no accident that the sea wich separates your lands makes no difference to the rhythm of your body."
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