I want to express heartfelt thanks to the handful of Republicans who have strongly condemned the lies of the MAGA movement against Haitians.
I realize Republicans who commit the crime of human decency pay a price in the MAGA juggernaut which has kidnapped their party. I am sincerely grateful to those who refuse to sacrifice their principles for power.
I am also grateful to the minority of Christian conservatives who have found the courage to renounce the heresy of Christian nationalism. The Bible condemns bearing false witness against one’s neighbor, but, unfortunately, MAGA Christians are just fine with bearing false witness so long as it is done in the name of Donald Trump and now, JD Vance. Forget the First Commandment, MAGA Christians put America first.
Republicans are not hateful by nature. Individually most Republicans are exemplary citizens and human beings but, so long as Trump is their candidate, traditional Republicans are having to blend in with rapacious billionaires, Confederate wannabes, racists, patriarchs and the daily lies of Donald Trump himself. Honest fact checking has become a heresy in the MAGA movement.
Of course, there was no proof for the claim that Haitians were eating peoples pets. And even JD Vance implied he doesn’t care whether his words are true, “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” So Vance’s hope seems to be that he can lie his way to the truth.
Haitians should not have to pay the price for the plutocratic policies that have cannibalized American workers. The sad state of the American middle class must be pinned on Wall Street not on Port-au-Prince.
Haiti is actually one of the bravest little islands in the world. They were a capitalist haven in the 1700’s until enslaved workers rose up and threw off their French exploiters.
In 1804, little Haiti became the only Black republic in the world by expelling its French colonizers. But, just as in Vietnam, the United States was only too willing to help the French restore a misbehaving colony to its “rightful” owner. As much as the various imperial nations might hate each other, their ultimate nightmare was that the rest of the world’s people might actually get free and share this world fairly.
Liberty is a wonderful slogan, but nations with colonies always restrict freedom to their own citizens. The rest of the world looks like one big sweatshop to the imperialist mind.
As in so many other nations seeking self determination, the U.S. sent in troops to occupy Haiti and propped up dictators friendly to U.S. interests. Like Napoleon before them, the U.S. did everything it could to crush the spirit of these Black revolutionaries but they could not bring proud Haitians to their knees. I don’t believe they ever will. To this day white supremacists and colonizers have not been able to extinguish the fierce Haitian desire for liberty. Haitians have been linked with diseases, black magic (think about that term) and now with devouring our pets. Every decent person in the world must rise to protect Haitians from MAGA lies.
The MAGA movement would not have to be so dishonest if their obsolete beliefs actually worked in the real world. They would not have to be so vicious if their dreams did not exclude so many real members of our one human family. MAGA Republicans would not have to beat their breast at every turn were they not so empty and so terrified of the fact that the rest of the world is throwing off ancient chains and rising up to claim their full birthright as human beings.