Listen to Haiti
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Join us this week for an all Haiti episode. Rather than go postal on the blah blah blah of corporate conventions and platitudinous political campaigning, the saucy boys turn up the volume on voices that matter. Our special guest is André Juste, a Brooklyn- based Haitian native, artist, writer, and global observer of all things vital. In a wide ranging discussion with Josh, Andre expounds on his own personal transformation, from a Haitian immigrant kid in New York City of the late 60s, to an intellectually hungry student at Brooklyn College, where he devoured works on the African diaspora and post colonial literature. “We are the contradictions,” reminds André, in a world that too seldom gives voice to the divergent voices of the formerly colonized and once enslaved. As a result, the rich creativity and wisdom of those voices and the contradictions they represent are relegated to what the Haitian scholar Michel-Rolph Trouillot called the ‘silences’ that inform the dominant narratives of power. And the solution to that silence? Just listen to Haiti.
This week's music: Arcade Fire, "Haiti"
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