Edit: Fellow white people, please read the article before just reading the title and reflexively commenting to make it about yourselves, thx
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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.
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.
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.
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).
The United States actually paid reparations to slavers. We paid slavers in DC the equivalent of $9000 per slave.
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.
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?
Their complaint is valid, making accusations towards a group based solely on their skin color is wrong no matter the color. Also I hardly think the MAGA white people, which I assume is the group this article was attempting to blame, know enough history to know how Haiti got its independence.
Nothing like a little racism to point out some other racism
