The Price of Sugar really illustrates how if we let fear rule us, we blame the wrong people for our problems, defend the ones who either created or choose to do nothing about those problems & destroy our soul by hurting those who are suffering even more! Basically a powerful & secretive family smuggles illegal immigrants, in this case Haitians, & pays off border patrol. The Haitians work in sugar cane fields while the family business uses armed forces & the country’s laws to prevent the Haitians from leaving the plantations once they arrive. The family business pays the Haitians almost nothing, provide no benefits (toads in the water, cramped living conditions, when killed, put in unmarked graves, children born there aren’t considered legal citizens, but aren’t citizens of Haiti so have no real options for the future)—basically slavery. Then the family uses money to get the press to blame Haitians for poverty of the citizens & has some of the citizens so worked up that the citizens call for the deportation or death of the priests who have brought the attention of the international community on this situation. Note to self: only buy Fair Trade Sugar. Just jarring to basically see black people complain about the “blacks,” i.e. Haitians. Note that after the film ended, Father Christopher Hartley did have to leave–no idea what the official reason was or what has happened to people that he defended. The Bishop only alluded to an internal incident. At any rate, it made me think about undocumented workers in US. Perhaps instead of focusing on masses of individuals, we should turn our attention to the businesses that benefit from illegal activity & punish them financially.