Call me Madame Noire. My government name is Crystal Bernardotte but nobody calls me that. For as long as I've been alive, I enjoyed inflicting pain on me. I don't know why. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that I became a professional dominatrix. I embraced this side of myself after suffering several setbacks in both my personal life and my professional life. It's not easy being a Black woman in the Continent of North America, ladies and gentlemen. If somebody tells you it's easy, then they are most definitely lying through their teeth. Add to that the fact that I emigrated to Canada from the Cap-Haitien Region of the Republic of Haiti in the late 1990s and you'll realize why life up north is so tough for me. I'm an island gal in the Great White North. What could go wrong?
I always made the best of what I got no matter where I happened to be. My family moved to the Province of Ontario from Northern Haiti to seek a better life. Us Haitians are a supremely adaptable bunch. That's why there are so many of us in the States, Canada and even the United Kingdom and Australia. Once in Canada, I focused on work and higher education, and I still hope it will someday pay off. I recently graduated from Carleton University in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario, with a Bachelor's degree in Criminology. I applied to the University of Ottawa Law School but the bozos turned me down. Bunch of fascists. Lucky for me, I got into the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University. The way I figure it, an MBA is a useful thing to have in this lousy economy. With it, I can work for just about any company. With a Law degree, there would be the dreaded bar exam to worry about. Also, I'd be bound to the region of Ontario as a lawyer, and I don't like being tied down to anyplace. Or anyone, really. I'm back in school at the tender age of twenty six, and life is alright, I guess.