Roger Toussaint L'ouverture?

I can't decide if a play on Roger Toussaint's (the MTA local union president in NY) name is too tasteless given the racial and economic overtones of the transit workers' strike, or simply too esoteric to amuse anyone but me, thus appearing really pretentious. Yeah, it's probably very inappropriate to compare the transit workers to nineteenth-century Haitian slave revolts. Oops.