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Haiti All latest updates The island and the outside world Being in Haiti without being in Haiti Feb 12th 2009 | Online extra Gonaives | Labadee | Port au Prince Gonaives TRAFFIC creeps down a dusty avenue. Gonaives looks like a poor city, with a steady flow of pedestrians walking along the edges of the road, but it does not immediately seem destroyed. Then we turn a corner and find a wall of dirt halfway up the street. The bulldozers and dump trucks have cleaned the thoroughfares, and the efforts of thousands, with shovels, have begun on the smaller streets. But the empire of dirt persists. It looms over our heads and we scramble up the edge, looking now down at nearby rooftops and then around the nearest corner, where this cracked tube, like an engorged elemental boa constrictor, continues into the distance. I remember grappling with the idea of infinity when I was a boy. W

Neymar’s blond ambition and the question of racism, identity and marketability of black public figures             32 Votes Three weeks ago, Brazil’s latest soccer sensation was at the center of another controversy in regards to the question of race. Santos soccer club/Brazilian national team superstar Neymar (da Silva Santos Júnior) made headlines after he approached an opposing coach and asked if he had made a racial slur against him during a game. Neymar’s image, the complexity of his racial identity, stance against racism and marketability says much about the marketability of black public figures, Brazilian and American. Below is how Rafa Santos reported the incident. BW of Brazil’s comments will follow the article. Neymar, racism and the question that goes beyond a simple game   Neymar in match against Ituano .  by Rafa Santos “Did you call me a  macaco  (monkey)?” Neymar asked in images caught on television. The target of the question was