Posted on 05/11/2024 9:20:05 AM PDT by Salman
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles.
They pause to swig rum out of small brown bottles, twirling in unison as they sing in Haitian Creole: “We don’t care if they hate us, because they can’t bury us.”
Shunned publicly by politicians and intellectuals for centuries, Vodou is transforming into a more powerful and accepted religion across Haiti, where its believers were once persecuted. Increasingly, they seek solace and protection from violent gangs that have killed, raped and kidnapped thousands in recent years.
The violence has left more than 360,000 people homeless, largely shut down Haiti’s biggest seaport and closed the main international airport two months ago. Basic goods including food and life-saving medication are dwindling; nearly 2 million Haitians are on the verge of famine.
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It never went away. It was kept quiet.
The average IQ in Haiti is 67.
Just saying.
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It’s like those Easter Islanders who thought their problems stemmed from not having enough giant stione heads.
New Hampshire’s average IQ is 103.2 (highest in the US), yet both of their senators are Democrats.
See Clinton, Bill and Hillary.
Good and interesting analogy.
Exchanging the truth for a lie. Sad to see.
Southerners who were aware of the quieter aspects of southern life know that a few blacks have always practiced and believed some weird stuff on the down low.
They should demand it every year.
Voodoo, not Voodou. .
Yeah, this will defenitely help them!
Now not only do they have to put up with gang violence but voodoo “doctors” as well.
Not to worry, though, Sock Puppet plans to fly these prized “refugees” to our shores to culturally enrich us and accelerate our dive into turd-world status.
There’s an old old saying that Haiti is 90% Catholic and 100% Voodoo.
I don’t buy the premise of this article.
By far their number 1 problem.
Vodou, please...
Haiti had both black and white revolutionaries that threw off the chains of the oppressor. Then the black ones murdered the white ones. For being white. If there is a curse on that country that's where it began.
“The average IQ in Haiti is 67.”
And there ain’t no way of fixing that.
You mean Voodoo.
Modern wokeism requires using indigenous, archaic spellings to virtue signal their solidarity with "historically-oppressed" people.
Haiti has always been an awful place, but not as bad as it is. now. I have an old picture of my parents there, part of their Caribbean Cruise honeymoon. The look on my. mother’s face, so sad and full of compassion when they were there, says it all.
Haitians that came over to Florida from Haiti in little boats in the eighties were mostly polite and worked hard at menial jobs. We could sometimes hear their voodoo drums in their neighborhoods. Spooky but harmless.
I bought a fabulous oil painting by a Haitian painter at the Haitian art gallery at the Caribe Hilton inn Puerto Rico decades ago. Probably worth far more than the $100 I paid for it then.
I don’t dislike Haitians, have no reason to. Voodoo is weird, but I think harmless. Could be wrong about harmless.
how about bringing into power a guy like the pres of ElSalvador? Got a gang tatoo — here is a bullet for you.
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