THE ORIGINAL HAITIAN MULATTOS ARE OF MIXED HERITAGE_ AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN ORIGINS.
HENCE COMES THE TERM " MULATTO".
HAD THEY BEEN OF EUROPEAN DESCENT, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN "WHITE" OR "GRO ZOREIL" AS THEY ARE CALLED IN THE FRENCH CARRIBEAN ISLANDS OF MARTINIQUE AND GUADELOUPE.
REMEMBER, BROTHER, THE AVERAGE MULATTO IS HIMSELF A VICTIM OF VESTIGIAL RACISM FROM COLONIAL TIMES.
THE SHAPE OF ONE'S NASALS AND THE NOT-SO STRAIGHT OF ONE'S HAIR WOULD READILY EXPOSE ONE'S AFRICAN ANECESTRY, AND THEREBY SUBJECTS ONE TO THE VICIOUS TACTICS OF RACISM.
FOR INSTANCE, LESCOT HAD NO PROBLEM DANCING WITH THE WIVES OF THE WHITE AMERICAN DIPLOMATS IN PORT-AU-PRINCE, BUT COULD NOT FIND A SUITABLE HOTEL TO SHELTER HIM IN VIRGINIA.
REMEMBER, THE VICTIMIZATION OF OUR COLONIAL MULATTO BROTHERS ARE SELF-EVIDENT IN THE REMOTE PLACES SUCH AS " COTE DE FER".
IN OTHER WORDS, THE MAJORITY OF HAITIANS INCLUDING MULATTOS ARE LIVING IN BOTH CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC POVERTY.
THE ILLITERACY RATE OF A PLACE LIKE CASAL AND FONDS-DES-BLANCS IS NOT SO DIFFERENT FROM A PLACE LIKE FONDS-DES-NEGRES.
THE DOMINANT ECONOMIC GROUP IS MADE OF A HANDFUL OF DESCENDENTS OF POWERFUL METROPOLITAN MULATTOS AND THE DESCENDENTS OF THE POWERFUL BLACK OFFICERS IN THE NORTH.
FOR INSTANCE, THE GRAND-DONS OF THE NORH ARE PREDOMINANTLY DARK-SKINNED.
