Calling Haitian migrants “pet eaters” is racist and dehumanizing. So is the continued attack on Haitian sovereignty by the US and its global allies. Dr. Jemima Pierre shares her thoughts on the long history of vilification of Haitian people in the US, and asks why the US’s illegal, continuing, and violent occupation of Haiti remains mostly unacknowledged.
“Slandering Haiti has been a pastime for the white west since the late 1700s, when enslaved Africans rose up to fight their white enslavers and won, disrupting white supremacy and changing the definition of “freedom” and the “human” in the process.”
Dr. Jemima Pierre
in Black Agenda Report
Read Dr. Pierre’s full OpEd in the Black Agenda Report’s website.
