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Adam (adamsaidsomething@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 00:13:18 JST Adam

"[The racism] is rooted in a long legacy in the United States of discrimination against ... Black immigrants and people coming from Haiti ...
American slaveholders feared they would invade and free enslaved Africans ...
The U.S. ruled Haiti with a system of racial violence [and] Americans were fed images of Haiti as a “voodoo and backwards, uncivilized Black country.” [which are] the roots for Trump’s comments about eating cats and dogs"
https://theintercept.com/2024/09/12/trump-springfield-haiti-cats-dogs-racism-immigration
#Haiti #uspol #racism #BIPOC
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  America’s Racist, Xenophobic, and Highly Specific Fear of Haiti
  
  from Sam Dean
  
  Residents of Springfield, Ohio, fear that politicians are inciting violence against Haitian immigrants. It’s a long U.S. tradition.

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