Edit: Fellow white people, please read the article before just reading the title and reflexively commenting to make it about yourselves, thx
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.
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.
Considering most Americans don’t know the history of Haiti, nor could even point it out on a map. So I doubt many are offended
That is the great thing about hate it doesn’t really require specific knowledge. Most of the people who lynched black folks in the south didn’t have a lot of specific understanding of the cultures or history of the people they hated they had a sort of diffuse hatred based on nothing real. Assuming that historical issues aren’t a root of anything because the rabble doesn’t specifically understand why they are supposed to hate someone is just a basic misunderstanding of how people work.
It’s like thinking the smell of shit doesn’t come from the turd because the people smelling it can’t actually see it.
