Poland's Caribbean Tragedy: A Study of Polish Legions in the Haitian War of Independence, 1802-1803" (by Jan Pachoński co-authored with Reuel K. Wilson, published in 1986). It doesn’t sugarcoat or romanticize anything.
I agree that expanding this World Cup to 48 teams was a mistake. Belgium, a nation that has never won the World Cup or Euros is playing against 7 time African Champions, Egypt.
How you trying to be pro black while throwing subtle shots and when you get hit with the same energy you get mad like make it make sense , siw pa gen kè pa jwe pokè
Common now you posted a long soliloquy and some Haitians didn’t like how you made them feels like some colorist and they responded and now you’re crying , like colorism is not also a huge issue in every country in Africa , Ghana included .
Everything always circles back to anti-blackness & the visceral fear of being seen as African; I’ve said it before, Africans blackness is the most demonized because it’s the direct opposite/anti-thesis of whiteness.
It broke my heart yesterday seeing Haitians sound just like racist Dominicans, they’ve clearly internalized the anti-black conditioning. Imagine coming from an all-black country & getting offended when someone points out that your nation is 95-99% black, imagine being upset because someone says most of your people are dark-skinned, they’re not mad at the statement itself because they know it’s true, what they really fear is being associated with Africa/Africans.
African blackness sits at the very bottom of the racial hierarchy in so many people’s minds, dark skin has been historically linked to continental Africans and has been demonized for centuries, so when I stated the obvious about their country’s population, it hit that deep insecurity.
Haitians are often looked down on by the rest of the Caribbean because they’re the most genetically and culturally African in the entire diaspora (90% and above), because of that, some Haitians have absorbed this anti-African hatred and now try to present themselves as mixed like Dominicans. Even though many Dominicans have African ancestry, most are visibly mixed with significant non-black admixture which puts them further away from that African blackness people have been taught to despise.
That's what it all boils down too.