Listen to what he says about his Haitian employees: "I wish I had 30 more. They come to work every day, they don't have a drug problem, they will stay at their machine, they'll hit their numbers, they're here to work. That's a stark difference from what we're used to."
This is one of my favorite details from the halftime show: the ribbed knit top worn while waving Haiti’s flag was basically a quiet conversation with history.
It echoes photographer Jay Maisel’s Haiti, 1973 series, specifically the picture "Haiti No. 59".
Maisel once said those images came from “a nostalgic view of better times,” and somehow that nostalgia found its way onto one of the biggest stage in the world.
From a street corner in 1973 and a fresko cart to a global halftime show decades later, same colors, same soul, "same" Haiti.
Fashion as memory. Culture as continuity. 🇭🇹✨
Thank you for this ❤️ @_dilemmer
Haiti was forced to remove an image of revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture from its Winter Olympics uniform. But designer Stella Jean, kept an image of his horse as a reminder of the slave revolt he led against France.
I wish you hadn't apologized because you are 100% correct.
You can tell the people who don't know an ounce of American history by the ignorant comments.
Enslaved Africans were not the sole builders of America. Immigrants have always been here, and they built this country too.
Juan Rodriguez 🇩🇴first settler of Manhattan from the Caribbean 1613. Plus the thousands of free Africans and Caribbean people who settled in the area when it was a Dutch colony. The hundreds of Cape Verdeans 🇨🇻that built up Boston and Southeast Massachusetts from the 1600s. Haitian🇭🇹 Jean Baptiste Point du Sable who founded/settled what is now Chicago 1779.
The 10 thousand free and enslaved Haitians came to Louisiana in 1809.
The hundreds of Ethiopians🇪🇹 in the North who helped build the famous Abyssinian Baptist cathedral 1808. William Alexander Leidesdorff Jr 🇻🇮 founder of San Francisco and the first Black millionaire;
The thousands of Bahamians🇧🇸 that founded Miami 1896.
40000 + West Indians came here after the Panama Canal was complete 1903 to 1915. The Queen of Harlem🇲🇶, the Bolito King 🇻🇮, Harlem Renaissance musicians and propagaters =Caribbean people. What point in America history were Black immigrants not here??
Thats just Black immigrants. I haven't even mentioned the Chinese railroad builders and the Irish and Italian skyscraper architects. Like when did we stop building America?
Too many of our Haitian neighbors are stuck in legal limbo. As the fight over Temporary Protected Status continues, we encourage anyone with TPS to use the city’s free immigration legal support and explore every legal pathway available. Call 800-354-0365 to learn more.
I hate Black History Month.
Not because I'm racist, but because of how it's framed.
Instead of celebrating Black people who displayed exceptional excellence, courage, and honor, Black History Month is presented through a victimhood lens.
George Floyd, Michael Brown, and many others killed by police while committing crimes are household names.
But almost no one knows Medal of Honor recipient Alwyn Cashe or Dr. Ronald McNair.
Both died in service to our country, yet their names are rarely mentioned in mainstream discourse.
Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe succumbed to his injuries after saving fellow soldiers, braving flames and mortal wounds to rescue as many as he could. He suffered second- and third-degree burns over 72% of his body while saving six of his brothers.
Dr. Ronald McNair, a brilliant physicist who earned his PhD from MIT before DEI and affirmative action, became nationally recognized for his work in laser physics. He was also an avid martial artist, earning a fifth-degree black belt in karate and winning many regional championships. He tragically died when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded.
So many other Black individuals have demonstrated exceptional merit, talent, and honor, yet most people have never heard of them.
Instead, we are constantly bombarded with the names of George Floyd and other career criminals... as if we should honor drug addicts who pointed guns at pregnant women.... while ignoring Black people who sacrificed themselves for the greater good.
This is why I hate Black History Month.
It doesn't celebrate excellence; it perpetuates a victimhood mentality that keeps so many trapped in a "crab in a pot" mindset.
We don't celebrate others like Thomas Sowell, an economist and author who rose from Harlem poverty to challenge dependency narratives, arguing self-reliance over government intervention drives progress,
or Clarence Thomas, who came from rural Georgia segregation to Supreme Court Justice, embodying merit through sheer grit.
Others like Bass Reeves,
one of the first Black U.S. deputy marshals in the 1800s, who captured over 3,000 outlaws in the Wild West with legendary marksmanship and disguise skills,
or Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician whose calculations were crucial for the Apollo missions, proving intellectual prowess in a segregated field.
Then all the liberal white people love to self-flagellate and prostrate themselves in the face of the history of slavery. It's more virtue-signaling that reinforces dependency narratives rather than celebrating Black agency and excellence. It's the "oppression Olympics" that keeps everyone trapped in resentment instead of moving toward a better tomorrow.
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