During the 2011 National Haitian American Forum Author Lahiny Pierre explains that the Haitian community can no longer consider itself different from the other black folks in America. "Those differences are hurting our community" said Lahiny. " we must link up"
Who wants to start the "linking" of the "blackies" movement?
Who are we kidding? Some Haitians may have felt that way, however, no other communities or nations actually felt such superiority. If you ask me, we were and still are suffering from an inferiority complex. Most Haitians think that they are only better than the next Haitian.
This was so funny...although this isn't something new on the table. I don't think the solution is to link up with other blackies well resolve this social issue in the USA. Senatdit, wrong my parents generation and my generation thought we( and I still think) superior to others. It's the haitians from poor peasant backrounds that have inferior complexes due to their upbringing in Haiti. Everyone think they are better than the other.. The reality, a lot of blacks think they are better than haitians.
This was so funny...although this isn't something new on the table. I don't think the solution is to link up with other blackies well resolve this social issue in the USA. Senatdit, wrong my parents generation and my generation thought we( and I still think) superior to others. It's the haitians from poor peasant backrounds that have inferior complexes due to their upbringing in Haiti. Everyone think they are better than the other.. The reality, a lot of blacks think they are better than haitians.
This was so funny...although this isn't something new on the table. I don't think the solution is to link up with other blackies well resolve this social issue in the USA. Senatdit, wrong my parents generation and my generation thought we( and I still think) superior to others. It's the haitians from poor peasant backrounds that have inferior complexes due to their upbringing in Haiti. Everyone think they are better than the other.. The reality, a lot of blacks think they are better than haitians.
Well back in the day Haitians were better, they came from very little and were winning the game.
Their children were not only graduating high school (which for some families in the USA today is a huge feat), but they went onto college competing with those that weren't disadvantaged.
Nowadays............with "assimilation" and other issues....no difference except for what they eat at home.
Early haitian immigrants like most black immigrants looked down on the black americans.
By the early 80s however, haitians took a dive to the bottom....and everyone (including other blacks) looked down on haitians.
Today, I don't really see any black group looking down on any other black group....in the USA.
The country of Haiti however is still a pariah.
My point exactly...the early migrates were way more educated and sophisticated than the black americans and other blacks. I have to disagree that black groups looking down on each other. It might not be as open but it is there. I see that Haitians now are now different than other blacks..tattos wierd names and dysfunctional as they've allowed themselves to get caught up in the system that media controlling the minds of the haitian youth. Personally what saved me from falling into this was leaving the USA which broaden my horizons..but how many can afford to send their kids away. I personally don't believe in this we black must stick together as it is mostly another black that will stick you with a dagger.. For me haiti is sinking deeper away..i look at my family and I can see that our haitian roots is dimming away..in features, language and contact with the haitian community. To me USA is the problem. Even middle class blacks fall to the pits of the media..look at the type of music blacks praise these days..Little Wayne and Micky Minage.. also I see a new nigger on the rise..hispanics...falling into the web of the system..
