22459: Simidor: Re: 22438: Racine125: Re: 22436: Justin: Re: 22427: Racine: Re:22419: Simidor: Re Kathy Grey and rape (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Daniel Simidor <karioka9@mail.arczip.com>


>From: Racine125@aol.com
>
>> You are treating "Haitian culture" as if it were some kind of stand-alone
>> entity.  ... This allows you to say
>> awful things like Haitian people are "sick"
>
>I did NOT say "Haitian people are sick", will some of you PLEASE quote what I actually said, gosh darn it!

Intrigued by Mambo Racine’s denials (“I have not said ‘All Haitian men are rapists’”), I waded through a zillion posts from my hard drive and came up with the following nuggets from her initial message:

<< The reason for all of this is that here in Haiti, men consider women property and women consider their vaginas their "capital goods". >>

<< This country is sick, sick, SICK!  And no amount of intervention is going to change it. >>

<< The fact is that Haitian men are raised to be rapists, and rewarded for rape. >>

Strong language that implicates ALL Haitian men, and Haitian culture in general.  Her inflammatory post about inferior cultures (Haiti) and superior cultures (the West) is reminiscent of Trujillo in 1937 (“I threw the gauntlet to a morally inferior people…”), and of recent discussions around “The Bell Curve.”  If that wasn’t a racist book, what was?

Mambo Racine talks about Haitian activists and their vociferous and strident criticism of US policy to justify her attacks on Haitian culture and Haitian men in general.  There is of course the obvious distinction between denouncing government policy and attacking a people’s culture as “sick, sick, SICK!”  But if I, as a Haitian activist, suddenly got it into my head to “vociferously” denounce all US WASPs as “genocidal mass murderers, with the blood of innocent black or Iraqi children dripping from their fangs, etc,” how long would it take for some white protection group, the police or the media to denounce my ranting as Hate Speech and to cart my ass off to Krome or Guantanamo?

Daniel Simidor