“Black professional and business organizations are rallying behind Haiti as the island digs out from the wreckage of a catastrophic earthquake and embarks on what likely will be a long, arduous journey of rebuilding.
The support pouring in from Blacks in the United States is more than a humanitarian response and show of ethnic kinship. In an historic sense, it is a payback to the world’s first post-colonial independent Black nation, whose 1805 constitution offered no-questions-asked citizenship to any person of African descent who arrived on its shores.”(More from The Network Journal)
The outpouring of support from Blacks is a humanitarian response, THAT’S IT! There was very little kinship coming from us when it was reported over and over again that child slavery was alive and well in that country. As much as we like to link all of our “troubles” to slavery that happened in our country some 200 years ago, it is quite shameful that little (if any) noise was made about what has become part of the culture in that country.
Bottom line, Haiti is getting help from people all over and that’s great. But please don’t make it more than what it is.
Haitian children sold as cheap labourers and prostitutes for little more than £50
Haiti’s hidden ‘child slaves’
How to Buy a Child in 10 Hours
Sphere: Related Content
Kinship?
by Duane on January 28th, 2010 at 7:58 amThe outpouring of support from Blacks is a humanitarian response, THAT’S IT! There was very little kinship coming from us when it was reported over and over again that child slavery was alive and well in that country. As much as we like to link all of our “troubles” to slavery that happened in our country some 200 years ago, it is quite shameful that little (if any) noise was made about what has become part of the culture in that country.
Bottom line, Haiti is getting help from people all over and that’s great. But please don’t make it more than what it is.
Sphere: Related ContentHaitian children sold as cheap labourers and prostitutes for little more than £50
Haiti’s hidden ‘child slaves’
How to Buy a Child in 10 Hours