Reply #2: Wow....it took me a few days to respond....I've been busy

[TroubleMan]

It saddens me how Haitians here in South Florida (I'm in West Palm Beach) are looked down upon by African-Americans, Jamaicans, other Caribbeans, and Latinos. They think of them as stupid, voodoo-worshiping, ugly, immoral, ect....you name the pejorative and I've heard it used to describe Haitians. It's funny how people always try to find someone to look down upon, especially when they're having hard times. Instead of looking at greedy rich people as the problem (which is true 99% of the time), they blame those they perceive to be below them. They want to be like the people that are to blame for their bad situation. They idolized their suppressors, and hate those that are suffering with them.

I try to explain this to a Jamaican friend of mine that him "not trusting" Haitians is the same as white people being prejudice of him, but he won't see it that way. He complains that it's hard for him to find a job with his accent and his hair, but then I tell him I can't have any pity of him until he stops thinking of Haitian people as someone he can't trust.

It's the same with my wife. Her son (my stepson) is named Pierre, and both he and her are very thin and dark-skinned. She got mad at somebody for thinking her son was Haitian (with a French name, thin, and dark-skinned). She told me about this, and I asked her what the problem was...why would being Haitian be an insult? ...And she gets mad at me for asking that, like I'm joking or something.

It just makes me so mad when people do that shit....you can't overcome people being prejudice until you overcome your own prejudice.