Excellent!

really really good post, mala, so important. I heard a show on NPR where people were talking about adopting Haitian kids post-earthquake, and an adoptive mother called on the show, hysterical because the place where her adopted daughter was (they hadn’t taken custody of the girl yet), were all set to do a mile walk from the adoption center to a medical zone. And she was frantic because “what’s on those streets?” etc etc.

I think it speaks to the context you are talking about here–when all people are hearing is that there’s these dark masses running around shooting things and stealing, of course you’re going to be terrified that your baby girl is walking the streets.

but then you hear news from sources that *aren’t* dependent on making a buck (like ansel hertz from media hacker), and he’s talking about how people are helping other people and how he hadn’t seen one act of violence and how the biggest acts of violence that *had* been committed were by the police force or the military….things change–and you’re suddenly not so invested in getting the u.s. military running around pointing guns at the black hordes, you know?

Then you see that the people you’re so scared of are actually human beings that just suffered a horrific fate–and maybe your daughter *needs* to be around other people like her. Instead of “safe” with you, millions of miles away around people who have no idea what it’s like to be black and suffer a catastrophe…

Good post, La Mala.

Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands accepting refugees? This guy has got be a little off his kilter.

Here is something to chew on, relating to the legacy of Colonialism.

I wonder if Haiti’s tough history, in comparison with other Carribbean nations, has something to do with WHO the Colonial nation was. For example, was there something particular that the French did that put the people of Haiti at a disadvantage, in comparison, say, to Jamaica, which contains a similar demographic, yet was ruled by the English?

I think that there are nuances when it comes to how different Europeans established and ran their colonies but I think the role of the U.S as it’s own neo-colonial power needs be examined

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is The Independent Republic of Haiti were me, Univison and “latin(a)(o)s would not have time for this tom-foolery as they would be too busy working to pay me for paying The price for their freedom from colonial chattel slavery.

Being Eastern Caribbean by birth and Miami by growth, i know that latino/latina, named after a dead language, is a former slave of A Spaniard Consquistador. And this distinction allows those embracing a dead label for a name, to go about believing they are all SPANISH, ie form Spain, ie never were Indigenous to The Americas or imported from Africa, Asia or Europe as slaves.

Now i MUST speak As One who is also Carib and Arawak in addition to African and European in Ancestry.

I could never and will never attempt to subscribe to the color-line. Whereever i find the disgraces like that of latino/latina Univision, i will speak against for the sake of My Own and in the name of Humanity.

For all the clinging to a false Spanish-Hood, in The Americas, there are NO latina/latino leaders of a country who are not merely CEOs of large plantations answering to Britain via Washington, D.C.

Too many in The Indigenous Diaspora of The Americas, like My Haitian neighbors, have Their Heritage, Culture and Traditions maligned by these latina/latino clinging to their false Spanish-HOODS.

I am thankful that this psychotic disillusion is finally being brought to Global light by The Quake in Haiti.

I am also thankful that there are Good Folks of All Ancestries who speak Spanish who have always, are and will always speak the truth like You have here this day.

VIVA HAITI!

(by the way Haiti IS The Original name of The Island, not Hispaniola)

I don’t have a problem with the idea of Latinidad which under my definition includes the Indigenous and the African, pero Carlos and I have had our share of ahem, discussion about that and I’m ok with leaving it at respectful disagreement

But your mocking is awesome Laura! Have always been a fan of it.

Ay, I think after the teleton I haven’t turned on Univision out of fear. I love futbol and times like this make me miss my DirectTV where I could avoid the dancing “negritos” and watch the tetonas from Argentina. ja ja