Patrick Jean-Baptiste

Seeing the world through Haitian eyes--one episode at a time.

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@James75119 @1Nicdar You just wanted an excuse to use “troupes “ of monkeys, didn’t you? You so smart!

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@EzraOj3608 @JJay3fours @B1TuckerCarlson American Civil War; Russian vs Ukraine; WWI and II. I could keep going. White men are the most violent race in the world.

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@chickyxime Disney is a company , which means it’s in business to make money. So anything Disney sells us is by definition a fantasy, a commodity, which means purely transactional.

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@KlausSchwabsCat @ellainmaryland1 @TheInternetFish It’s not everyone. White people invented racial categories that all ofnus are stuck with now. When we were in Africa we had tribal identities, not racial ones. So ask white people to get over skin color.

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@Nih_Noh @ellainmaryland1 @TheInternetFish White is the standard and therefore is and has always been invisible and nameless.

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Solution would be to outlaw racism. US outlawed segregation but didn’t outlaw racism. And if it’s a hate crime, perps should get the death penalty. We should follow Germany, where racism is illegal criminally and civilly. Even racial profiling by the police is considered unconstitutional and illegal in Germany.

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@BreakingBrown The SPLC paid confidential informants to gather credible intel not to keep the KKK and other hate groups in power.

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@Sundiatakinte @PJenkins1931 Why would they build a hbcu in Africa? The whole freaking continent is overwhelmingly black, genius! There are close to 40k universities and colleges in Africa, moron. And if it wasn’t for Africans going to hbcus here, they would probably go bankrupt.

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They didn’t abandon their countries. They moved within a global system that underpays and under-resources them at home. Most still support their families and communities through remittances, which often exceed foreign aid. Calling that ‘greed’ ignores both economic reality and basic fairness.

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@godisBlackman @washingtonpost Hey you fucking moron—in terms of economic development, Taiwan is ranked 11th in the world (approx. $85,130/yr). This puts Taiwan ahead of major economies like Germany, Japan, and the UK in terms of actual purchasing power. Pick up a book once in a while genius.

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You sure generalizing a lot here. Where is the evidence that emigrants are not assimilating? Assimilation is also a big word.

Milton Gordon’s work holds that immigrants assimilate linguistically and culturally across generations — and this is largely true for language.

By the second generation, most immigrant children are English-dominant, and by the third generation, the heritage language is often largely gone.

And, the politics of illegal immigration has obscured the fact that most unauthorized presence in the U.S. is a civil violation, not a criminal one.

If someone overstays a visa or crosses without inspection and is caught, the standard consequence is civil removal (deportation) — an administrative proceeding, not a criminal trial.

So can we please stop treating the majority of these undocumented people as if they were criminals? They’re not.

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It took white people a long time to perfect Anti-Blackness. It didn’t just appear out of nowhere. It was built over centuries and woven into systems, culture, and language.

Black people are not experts on racism—you are. We’re simply survivors of that shit.

So when white people like you ask Black people why they use the n-word, what’s under all of that is the real question you’re afraid to ask: why can’t I use it too?

Look, some communities reclaim terms that were once used against them, and that reclamation doesn’t automatically extend outside the group.

In my teenage daughter’s circle, they call each other cunts, or say this or that is cunty. My wife and I find it objectionable, but to my daughter’s posse, those are terms of endearment.

Go ask your wife or the women in your family why they might call each other the b-word but wouldn’t accept it from you.

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You keep saying we fled. At least we did it to keep our families intact. What’s your excuse for why Black Americans are at the bottom of most economic indicators today?

Since the Emancipation Proclamation, you’ve had 163 years to get your act together and prioritize the Black American family. Black immigrants in contrast, are kicking your asses in all socioeconomic categories.

We ran away from shitty governments in our country but kept our families intact. You ran away from taking care of your family or don’t have the capacity to build one because you’re so selfish.

Instead, with a pathetic 30% marriage rate, you don’t really have a family unit to speak of. You’re in the richest and most powerful country in human history. What have you actually done to build anything of substance for your children and future generations? Again, you’ve had 163 years!!

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@Nelochenko @_maximumpink You know how stupid you sound? Billions and billions of Africans have lived in Africa for thousands of years. 99% of Africans live on the continent, not overseas.

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@HumansNoContext @grok, who is this artist?

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@eplatina9 @DylanByers @PuckNews @grok, is this true?

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Many of the comments defending his self-improvement frame the issue crudely: Kai Cenat became wealthy with limited formal literacy, therefore criticism is invalid. That logic does not hold.

When more than half of Nvidia’s employees are multimillionaires, it contradicts the idea that content creation is the primary or even the most reliable path to wealth.

Content creation is a power-law field. A very small number reach extraordinary success, while the vast majority remain far from the summit, with an enormous gap between the top and everyone else. Presenting it as a scalable escape from poverty to his followers is misleading and tragic.

If you took 100,000 children and put them through a serious STEM pipeline focused on high-demand fields like AI, engineering, and applied computing, the probability that most would end up millionaires or at the top of the income distribution is far higher and far more predictable.

An entire generation is being conditioned to believe content creation is their only viable path upward, much like professional sports once functioned as the imagined escape route in underserved communities. Education in scarce, high-demand technical fields has always been the more reliable lever for broad-based economic mobility.

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I’m with you on the fantasy part. But mobility is morally justified for most refugees.

People move because providing for family is a real obligation, one that often outweighs tribal affiliation or attachment to the soil.

I know Black American friends who are thriving in different parts of the world simply because their retirement dollars go further. They aren’t trying to become African. They remain Black Americans living abroad, moving back and forth.

(And for what it’s worth, I’m a fan. You’re one of the main reasons I’m still on this cesspool of an app.)

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@DomVapers @NonHumanMedia1 Quiet? You must not know many Haitians. 😆 True on the rest.