John the Conqueror second cousin/That little Johnny Conqueroo", and in "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" it is called "John De Conquer Blue". John the Conqueror was an African prince who was sold as a slave in the Americas. Despite his enslavement, his spirit was never broken and he survived in folklore as a sort of a trickster figure, because of the tricks he played to evade his masters. Joel Chandler Harris's Br'er Rabbit of the "Uncle Remus" stories is said to be patterned after High John the Conqueror. Zora Neale Hurston wrote of his adventures ("High John de Conquer") in her collection of
Remus Cernea candidate gets a certain percentage. Cernea argued that this breaks the free and fair election standards found in "Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters" of the Council of Europe and that it would monopolize the elections to those "rich and corrupt". Prime Minister Emil Boc, however, announced that the law project would be dropped. In May 2010, Remus Cernea is taking part, along with other high-ranking members from the Green Party at the GayFest, the annual gay pride festival of Bucharest. Remus Cernea Remus Cernea (; born June 25, 1974) is a Romanian activist against discrimination based on faith