#Haitian people

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[bijoumikhawal]

The Dominican Republic has seemingly pledged troops to the MSS, an operation that is functionally a planned invasion of Haiti.

This a particularly concerning matter as the Dominican Republic has fostered a campaign of hatred for Haiti for a very long time. The DR restricts citizenship for those of Haitian descent, which it does for no other population. The border between the two states has been closed for around a year, but deportations have continued, and African Americans have been advised not to travel to the DR at all in recent times. Abinader (the DR president) has been pushing for MSS for around three years. Haitians and Dominican allies describe the situation as an example of the inherent failures of a two state solution. And yes, Abinader has threatened further escalation if MSS does not go according to his wishes for the operation.

The Dominican Republic is obviously, not the only nation involved. Lula, the president of Brazil, has been upkeeping his track record of destabilizing and creating havoc in Haiti. Ruto, the president of Kenya, is the one pledging the bulk of the troops for the operation. The US has given tacit approval to this, also furthering its long trend of abusing Haiti. Harris and the Biden administration, much like Abinader, have been pushing for intervention in Haiti long before now, though naturally, Americans frame this as "aid", when Haitians very much do not see it that way. Further, the Biden administration has expressed a desire for allyship with the Dominican Republic, which in this context, absolutely does not bode well.

[nashvillethotchicken]

It is deeply unfortunate that Anne Rice and white culture is hyperobsessed with Europe as the supposed hub of culture so all the "it" vampires flock to Europe and France specifically, because I genuinely think Louis and Claudia would have had a ball in Rio

[tiredmagicalwarrior]

I think one of the things I appreciated the most about Nocturne was the protagonism on the Haitian Revolution.

This was a revolution that didn't just change Haiti, it changed the world. This was the revolution that would make the first black state. The first slaveless state. That would make every slave nation tremble with fear, from Europe To America to Asia to Oceania to Africa. It was what was never meant to happen, but did.

It's the nation that would defeat Napoleon and the British marine. Nobody could take down Haiti. You know why Napoleon went to colonize Europe? Haiti. That's why. He couldn't take down Haiti. Couldn't make it french territory again. So, he turned towards Europe.

We are talking about an undefeated nation.

AND! AND! A largely Vodu nation!

I was SO happy to see Vodu be portrayed as the wonderful religion it is, sacred and divinely intertwined with the Haitian revolution. The revolution was noted to start with Vodu chants and ritual.

White people refused to understand the link between the two worlds that could bring ancestors to meet their descendants. They created zombies as a horror trope. They made vodu dolls as a horror gimmick. They took a sacred religion and reduced it and vilanized it.

And I'm so happy to see it being positively portrayed in such a famous media. Vodu practicioners have already made media of the like. But I was positively surprised with what Nocturne had to present to us.

Of course, the knowledge that the french revolution was incomplete, that it was NOT FOR EVERYONE, is then again, something I really appreciate as a history student and a person. The french revolution killed mostly peasent and established the bourgeoisie, but did it end the Noir Code? No. Did it establish women's and black people's suffrage? No. Did it make a agrarian reform? No. Was it for the people? It had it's importance. But it was, at the very least, not for all the people.

And let's not forget that the french revolution's main intellectual current would birth biological racism, an unscientific current that claimed evidence of "different sized skulls" for example to prove humans possessed different races based on phenotypes.

Last, but certainly not least: it is absurd to see people claim that "all indigenous people have been killed". Acknowledging multi-ethnic indigenous genocide HAS to go along with the respect that there STILL are indigenous people and they continue their fight for their lives and land.

You know who the show demonstrates as such? Olrox.

While I don't appreciate the show claiming "all of his people were slaughtered" as that is historically inaccurate, I was most happy to see an Aztec vampire present and very alive, connected to his culture, protagonizing the show. The Nahua are still very much alive and kicking and I appreciated that the show took that into account.

And Annette! Sweet Annette being one of the leads makes me most joyful. I can't stand idiots that claim her presence.on France was """historically innacurate""", check again, dumbasses, free black people were all over France (especially the children of black Caribbean elites, for example, from Haiti back then known as Saint-Domingue, which did not possess universities and would sent their children to study in Europe.)

Anyway. To see her star as one of the leads made me so incredibly happy. She's a wonderful character and I appreciate how they let Annette be unapologetic and direct, especially during a moment between revolutions were she was very aware the french revolution didn't mean shit to her people.

But she was so lovely and to see her afro-caribean religion present AND source of her power made me emotional more than a few times.

Castlevania Nocturne really did hit this nail on the head.

Anyways. To make sure I give people answers to "but where's the evidence to x thing you said?" Here are my sources:

THYLEFORS, Markel; “Our Government is in Bwa Kayiman:”A Vodou Ceremony in 1791 and its Contemporary Significations, 2009

DUBOIS, Laurent; Avengers of the New World : the story of the Haitian Revolution, 2004

BUCK-MORSS, Susan; Hegel, Haiti and universal history, 2009

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[blk-ink-pen]

To the Black people joking about Haitians eating cats in Ohio, you realize if they put me and you in front of a white supremacist and asked them to pick the Haitian, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between us, right?

[blackbrownfamily]

Ayiti 1805

[jasontoddsmommyissues]

I saw a video on Tik Tok about how Trump and JD Vance’s fear mongering about Haitian immigrants is likely to trigger an uptick of hatred and violence towards Black Americans in general, and man did that break my fucking heart. I’m white personally, but goddamn I am sick of this. I remember the 2000s, I remember how the “war on terror” turned into anyone who even just looked vaguely Middle Eastern or belonged to a religion that uses head coverings being treated like dangerous criminals. I remember the “border crisis” turning into an open invitation to discriminate against anyone of Latino/Hispanic descent. I remember how the pandemic turned into a wave of violence against Asian Americans. I don’t want to do this again. I don’t want to sit around listening to bigots talk about my fellow humans like they’re some sort of dangerous animals. I don’t want to open my news app to stories of innocent people being hurt and killed for no valid reason.

I don’t give a fuck what your skin color is, or what country you/your ancestors came from. If you can’t see how disgusting this is, how absolutely despicable it is to act this way towards your fellow man, I don’t know what to say.

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[annacaffeina]

I haven't actually seen any memes about the Haitians eating pets thing, but I have seen a post about how 'you just watch, the LiBeRaLs are going to be making memes about it' about a thousand times.

Which is wild because if there is one thing this election cycle has taught us it's that mocking the right's stupid racist harmful beliefs is the one thing that works! It's like this leftist is saying "you better not use an effective weapon against the dangerous beliefs of the Right, because that would make you such a cringe lib" And thousands of leftist then reblog it going 'yeah, that's right!'

I feel like it's another point in favor of horseshoe politics. The Right and The leftists are both over-serious humorless morality police that can't make a funny joke and completely fall apart in the face of a funny joke. Which makes sense because they both share the same single punch line: liberal.

Black humor works. It throws the tragedy into clearer relief, helps to buoy the targets, and highlights the stupidness of the attackers. When you know who the target should be anything can be funny. But maybe that's the problem. The leftists and the right only have one target, and if a joke isn't at the expense of liberals it must obviously be morally wrong.

[nashvillethotchicken]

Reconstruction ended in the US in 1877, and during that year, as well as the years immediately post civil war, there was an especially huge push for black people to find loved ones who were sold off the other states or countries during slavery, especially those who had children fathered by their masters as their masters were the ones who sold off the child/ren or had the best information on finding them. People would send letters, put ads in newspapers, even take trips themselves to go find loved ones that they had lost due to the scurge that was slavery. And I keep thinking about Louis du pointe du lac, sending all those messages to find his daughter that was sent out of state by her white father

[stackslip]

unpersoning haitians and viewing them as rabid savage cannibals or pet eaters, witches and gang members, as well as talking about the current horrific state of haiti as "natural" has such a long history in the west, particular in the colonial powers that have actively participated in its destruction. france, the usa, and the uk are particularly bad and evil in that regard considering their own history with haiti but it's not limited to them either

[azrael-5]

Black people are going to die, not just in Ohio, but all over the US, because of the conspiracies being spread about Haitian migrants eating people's pets.