...and I just keep thinking how sweet it must be for folks who have been raised and encouraged to understand Haiti as disempowered and lacking in even the basics, to want to help those poor, disadvantaged Black folks who have been so hard hit.
How many posters I have seen of crying Haitians...a single tear, captured, rolling down the side of a sad looking face?
How many donation boxes I have seen with screaming, dirty, wounded looking Haitian children?
How many boxes of food shipped in by white controlled countries who have been in the habit of messing with Haitian politics from behind the scenes or who would not normally lift a finger to truly help stabilize that country?
How many foster children put on the market to be raised by well meaning white families who just want to do their part?
I wonder...does anyone remember and realize who these people are?
Do any of the nice white church ladies at their bazaars understand the threat the ancestors of these people posed to white domination and to the lucrative European trade in formerly free African people?
Do any of the kindly charitable organizations understand that this catastrophe was only made possible due to sustained systematic undercover warfare over a couple of hundred years?
Do any of the lovely rock stars even fucking care that they are not donating their music and time not to the victims of a natural disaster but to the victims of repeated, evil ass attempts by white colonizers to finally force a warrior people back into line?
Yes.
Please "help" if you can.
But whatever you do please realize that the best "help" anyone who has participated in the destruction of these descendants of fierce and successful kidnapped African resisters or who has helped to form public opinion of them as powerless, backwards, uneducated masses who don't know how to take care of themselves or protect their own interests is to attempt to not sadistically masturbate on their suffering in ways that reinforce artificial hierarchies of domination, subjugation, power and privilege.
But more importantly, try to remember who they actually are and gaze upon them through the lens of politicized consciousness rather than through filter of a-historical denial.
Yup. Context is so important.
google-ing...
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