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One Listener Can't Forget 1991 Story On Haitian Cane Cutters


ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
This week, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED turns 50. Joel Abrams of Boston recalls making dinner one night in 1991 and listening to a story about Haitian cane cutters in the Dominican Republic. Here is an unnamed cutter heard through an interpreter.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST)
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Through interpreter) When you live here, this is all you know - cutting cane. Even if you re born here, if you have skin as dark as I do, you are Haitian - you cut cane.
AILSA CHANG, HOST:
Abrams says the story changed him.
JOEL ABRAMS: If you had asked me was I interested in farm workers in Haiti, I would have said no. But I listened to this, and it really made me care about them and brought them to life as people for me and in a remarkable way. ....

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