The cultural abuse and historical abuse, I learned about is something that I was told about from family members that lived through the experience in their country of Haiti was The Knife Blow (Kout kouto a) in which became known as the Parsley Massacre. In the late 1930s was a genocidal massacre against the Haitian population living in the borderlands of the Dominican Republic with Haiti at the direct order of Dominican President Rafael Trujillo. How the person pronounced the Spanish word for parsley (perejil) determined their fate. Trujillo used the massacre as the starting point of his policy to secure, develop, and transform the Dominican borderlands into a national showcase. They created a national identity that defined Dominicans as white,
