I dated this DC woman who is director of a big peace institute. This expert was out there spreading the racist lie to her friends that Haitians committed massacre against white Dominicans. Only I didn’t know.
She did her masters at mostly white & elitist university in most liberal racist city in US. I was pro Chavez & her racist #whitepassing elitist friends from #Venezuela hated my black 🍑. They would have convo about intdev around me, & couldn’t care less about what I had to say.
Once I invited her & her best friend, a staffer for a white liberal congresswoman to discover Haiti. They had great time, & few days after returning her friend said she got bedbugs from Haiti in her bed in spite of fact she paid expert to get rid of it 2 weeks before Haiti trip.
Before 2016, I tried to educate her as to why Haitians hated her liberal queen. She didn’t like that and told me Haitians were ignorant anyway. Yeah we stopped communicating after that. Couldn’t care less about her much after that.
I got a valuable lesson into liberal racism passing as ally from that experience I will never forget. Today, Karen is an expert in peace building & hate speech for another mostly white liberal institute. Her area of expertise? Africa. 🤦🏾♂️ #thisisamerica
Forgot to mention my liberal friends Amaryllis and my soccer goalkeeper Eric. Both white liberals and up until recently I also thought they were friends. They both decided to contact me on FB to leave messages on a public post saying I was ignorant for backing Sanders.
They are both lawyers mind you and were working on the Biden campaign at the time. They both also said Haitians were too ignorant and we cost them the elections in 2016. I also blocked them but I wonder how they feel now about this 🤔 👇🏾
Back to DC woman. Her dad is prof at liberal uni & her mom is writer for big NY paper. One night after heated but respectful dinner convo, her mom approached me & said she didn’t know I went to college. I have BA & MA mind you but this Black guy from Haiti didn’t fit stereotype.
In case there was any doubt where the bedbugs came from, her friend always had them in her room in DC. But b/c she got rid of them before Haiti, & they came back after Haiti, to her these new bugs came from Haiti & there was no arguing w/ her that was racist & stupid.
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He was born a French slave, he became a Spanish General and he commanded an all Black American militia in Florida. He was the real Django Unchained. His name is George "Jorge" Biassou. Haitian know him as #wapkonjoj Thread 1/17
Imagine a time where you felt slavery was so brutal w/ the French, that you felt necessary to align yourself w/ the Spaniards who also believed in slavery b/c you had a common enemy. That is exactly what happened in colony of St. Domingue at beginning of #HaitianRevolution 2/17
Biasson was son of slaves in world's most lucrative colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). The French slave owners were notoriously brutal. In 1791, thousands of abused slaves rose up and poured out their fury onto them. 3/17 laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/all…