When there’s ridiculous talk of the Haitian’s having “made a
pact with the Devil” by some weird televangelist, a CNN news
anchor displays a more appropriate human response to the
misery in that country.
In this instance, the death report about an 11-year-old girl
who had been trapped under rubble for days.
Nothing else is necessary.
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Mention the island nation of Haiti and the images conjured
up are not particularly pleasant. Poverty. Political unrest.
Racial discord. AIDS.
Yesterday, Haiti was pummeled by an earthquake that
registered a full 7.0 on the richter scale. Anything above 6.2
is pretty bad. An earthquake in the range of “7″ is devastating
and this one even rendered the “National Palace,” Haiti’s
White House, to a disorganized pile of rubble.
The modern stigma of Haiti besides the unrelenting poverty
concerns AIDS. The island was maligned a generation ago
at the beginning of the AIDS era as a hot bed of HIV infection,
presumably because of racist attitudes towards dark-skinned
people from the Caribbean who practiced a strange brand
of Christianity and were, therefore, presumably morally inferior.
Perhaps that led to this extremely strange commentary by
a well-known televangelist.
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What Haiti needs most in their time of crisis is help. Not
fearmongering from an out-of-touch religious mouthpiece
who already has a reputation for making absurd comments
on a broad range of topics.
As for Haiti, the rate of HIV infection, and the incidence of
AIDS has declined quite dramatically in recent years.
That, at least, is good news.
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