Cue the upright bass solo in G minor.
Enter trombones. Enter drums. Enter saxophones. All in a long crescendo. “My solo in it is a
deeply concentrated one,” said jazz man Charles Mingus about “Haitian Fight Song.” “I can’t play it right unless I’m thinking about prejudice and hate and persecution, and how unfair it is. There are sad- ness and cries in it, but also determination. And it usu- ally ends with my feeling: ‘I told them! I hope some- body heard me.’” “Haitian Fight Song” is
about the victories of Tous- saint Louverture, the leader of slave rebellions in Haiti at the end of the 18th Century. Mingus’s tune was circling in my head as I made my way through the tempo- rary Little Haiti, in down- town Tijuana. Thousands of Haitian refugees have
hood. Some receive money from family members all over the US. Some say they are not from Haiti, but from African countries in hopes of getting special treatment. Tijuanenses have
reacted with mixed emo- tions. Haitians have been headline news and, at times, have been the talk of the city. There is fear. There is acceptance. “Deporten a todos esos
Poul fri — Haitian fried chicken — is marinated with a lot of garlic, lemon juice, and Scotch bonnet peppers, which are replaced by habaneros in this Tijuana version.
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negros” (“Deport all those blacks”), someone com- ments in a news report. “You sound like Trump,” another responds to the comment. “Imagine in five years
a 6´8˝ black Haitian all crazy on meth robbing you at gunpoint at 2:00 a.m.” someone posts on Facebook. “Why don’t you imag-
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