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Alain Despointes made the comments at a moment when the French Caribbean territory was convulsed by protests over high prices and low wages and by resentment that the primarily white, "beke" descendants of slaveholders control much of the local economy.
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Why couldn't he just laugh out loud, shout, clap his hands, sway in place to the infectious rhythms thumping from drummers on a flat-bed truck, search out a familiar face in the swirl of old-school beke planters 'white linen suits, straw hats, the long-spinning dresses.
Keys to Success 2008
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Ukuba ke lomthwalo uya kusinda, wu beke phantsi Mntwan'omhle u ke uphumle.
STATEMENT BY DR PALLO JORDAN, ANC MP DURING THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS DEBATE 2004
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The _Treatise_ of the fifteenth century bids you make your 'Rodde' of a fair staff even of a six foot long or more, as ye list, of hazel, willow, or 'aspe' (ash?), and 'beke hym in an ovyn when ye bake, and let him cool and dry a four weeks or more.'
Introduction to the Compleat Angler Andrew Lang 1878
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Despointes, one of the beke elite, also criticized mixed-race marriages during the interview aired in late January 2009 and said he wanted to "preserve his race."
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For example, at the Gardel sugar refinery and in the supermarkets belonging to various beke families (the white elite that controls most industry and agriculture).
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