What Black Twitter Taught Me - Haiti
Last season we introduced a reduced version of our typical episode model for the first time, airing a podcast that was under 10 minutes long. It ended up being one of our more popular episodes so we decided to expand it into an ongoing miniseries called, what Black Twitter taught me. Black Twitter is good for anything from pop culture, sports commentary, and intense sociopolitical discourse. With this series, we will share what we learned from insightful threads on various sociopolitical topics. Today we will be discussing Hattian history as it relates to colonialism and their strife for independence
Haiti has endured some tumultuous periods throughout its history. You may have seen some of the nation's recent struggles and inability in the news, political assassinations, and natural disasters have created an influx of Haitian refugees attempting to enter the united states. Troubling images of refugees being met with less than empathetic border enforcement went viral while this story was circulating. There was one in particular where a border patrol officer forcefully grabbed one of the refugees, in his hand it seemed like he was holding a whip. While the whipping aspect of the photo ended up not being the case, the point remains the same. There is a basic lack of humanity and a lack of historical context in terms of how Haiti ended up in such a tumultuous situation to begin with.
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