Um, is this a blatantly racist title? As a white person who never even got offended at Haitians claiming freedom in the first place, I think it is.
It's a shitty, incendiary, clickbait title.
If you have to gain equality by dragging someone down instead of elevating yourself, then we all end up down in the mud. Hate is not progress.
I wouldn't call it blatantly racist, it's obviously biased coming from someone of Haitian heritage. But I think they over-sell it.
Your average American likely doesn't think about Haiti at all, positively or negatively.
Yeah, if you asked Trump supporters to find Haiti on a map, I'm guessing a single-digit percentage is getting it right. Their prejudice towards immigrants is not some calculated, historically-informed position. It's a basal fear of the other.
I don't even know what they got independence from. France, hundreds of years ago? Why would I care? To equate white people with the French definitely seems racist to me.
It's no different than the US blowing stuff up in the developing world. It's not about you specifically.
Oh shit, we haven't? Do I... do I have to start saying stuff about eating pets?
And here I thought I agreed with the Haitians, and thought that people like John Brown did nothing wrong...
Turns out I'm Big Mad?
Not so sure it’s white people in general. France, obviously yes. I don’t think any other country ever demanded “reparations” for the loss of slave labor. That said, the US has had a complicated and at times troubling relationship with Haiti, intervening on France’s side during Jefferson’s presidency (Jefferson was a slave owner and shit was fucked).
Britain required former slaves to work for 2 years unpaid before they were free to go post abolition. Slave owners received £17bn in today's money in reparations.
Interesting, thanks.
The United States actually paid reparations to slavers. We paid slavers in DC the equivalent of $9000 per slave.
Gotta make an example out of 'em or all our people who are "property" in the USA might get ideas. /s but not really, that was the thinking.
Not all white people...
Nothing like a little racism to point out some other racism
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