As you know Linda I'm currently reading "the black jacobins...

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As you know Linda I'm currently reading "the black jacobins" the book that you suggested.

In the book James graphically details the way slaves were treated.

The restavec situation is cruel but I agree that it doesn't come as close to the cruel abuses slaves endured.

But I reiterate again that no child should have to live in a condition like that. Most children can adapt and survive just about any living condition but then the question becomes, should a child have to live through a situation like that?

And I think white people classifies restavecs as such to alleviate what possible guilts they may have about slavery.

It's their way of saying everybody's doing it.

None of you guys know my last name but I still feel very uncomfortable talking about some of the things I went through.

I want to keep these things private because I feel I would appear subhuman if people knew. The thing that angers me the most is the fact that while I was living with them. They made me feel like they were doing me a favor, like i was a charity case. But when I moved to the US I found out that all alone my parents were sending money on a monthly basis for them to care for my brother and I. I admit they did sent us to school but the rest well let's leave it at that.

I was angry at my parents because they were legal residents but they didn't really travel to Haiti to check up on us.

As far as school is concerned I was trying to decide between georgia tech, gatech.edu/ and NYU, nyu.edu.

I have a cousin at Georgia tech and my best friend is starting his first year of law school at NYU this year. But i'm now leaning strongly toward NYU my friend introduced me to a student who's studying international law at NYU; this student is in his third year of law school and he's about to start an internship at the UN. This student said at the appropriate time he could help me get an internship there as well. I'm sure with an experience like that it would be very easy for me to find a good job somewhere in the future.

Zac, August 19 2009, 11:31 PM

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