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Haitians Do Not Belong in America
Haitians Do Not Belong in America
By: Phillip Lede đť•Ź | 09/17/2024
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Beginning in 2020, the Biden-Harris administration imported 20,000 Haitian refugees into Springfield, a quaint town of 60,000 in Ohio. In recent days, social media has been rife with reports of Haitian migrants devouring the household pets of local residents.
Trump comically referenced the reports on national TV, insisting that the migrants were eating the dogs, cats, and pets of their new neighbors. While the veracity of these accounts has been dismissed by authorities (possibly falsely), the sentiment behind them belies a greater truth. Americans recognize that Haitians aren’t American, and they never can be, even if they were to learn English and refrain from poaching park geese.
What stops Haitians from being American is not their unseemly palette choices or their apparent inability to parallel park but their very nature as people. All of the blaring cultural differences that conservatives point to that make them incompatible with American life are derivative of their essential dissimilarity. A cursory glance at Haiti’s history shows that neither colonialism nor institutional racism can be blamed for its dysfunction.
Problems with Haiti
From the moment Columbus arrived on the shores of Hispaniola in 1492, he was greeted by a people “destitute of arms” and technological development. After establishing the first settlement in La Navidad, he returned months later from Spain to find all 39 of his men, who he left to trade with the natives, dead. Cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice may have played a role in their disappearance.
Hundreds of years later, the nation was turned over from the Spanish to the French in 1804, and the natives revolted against their European administrators, murdering not only slave owners but White men, women, and children alike. Haiti, heralded as the scene of the first successful slave revolt in the Western world, is today the poorest and third most violent nation in Latin America.
Due to the staggeringly high murder rate, only 78% of Haitian 15-year-olds will live to 60. Vicious gangs, the most prominent of which is led by a cannibal named Barbecue, have free reign over the nation’s streets. Absent law and order, the country is a global hub for human trafficking, drug running, and gang violence. Political unrest also besets the nation. Since the president’s assassination in 2021, they have not elected a single lawmaker. All 149 of the legislative body’s seats are currently vacant.
Some attribute the country's anarchic condition to the lingering effect of colonialism, citing the $20 billion the country made to pay for its independence to the French bank. Yet, this debt was fully paid off in 1947, and despite the over $20 billion Haiti has received in foreign aid (not including remittances), the country has seen little to no improvement. Ironically, the safest periods in Haiti’s history were during occupation, by either the Spanish, French, or Americans (who invaded in 1915 after the mob assassinated the Haitian president). Its current state marks a return to pre-colonial times.
The presence of lawless gangsters decapitating innocents and torching police stations, while alien to Westerners, is the norm for Haiti’s native inhabitants. The cartel takeover of Haiti is nothing more than a revival of the tribal warfare that existed for thousands of years before the brief respite of European colonization. Haiti’s latest plunge into anarchy only makes a continuation of its permanent revolt against civility and order, whether imposed by a domestic or foreign power.
The cause of Haiti’s perpetual turmoil can be traced to the remarkably low IQ of its native population. The average IQ in the US and Europe sits around 100, and Haiti’s is more than two standard deviations below at 67. With an IQ of 67 or below, half of Haiti’s population would be ineligible for the death penalty due to intellectual impairment. Those with lower mean IQ are more disposed towards crime, irrespective of the socio-economic class they’re born into. Given that IQ is the greatest predictor of criminality, it is no surprise that Haiti boasts a 40.9/100,000 person murder rate as of 2023, roughly 7x that of America’s murder rate of 6/100,000.
While Haiti’s intellectual deficiency alone demonstrates its incompatibility with America’s ethnic fabric, its native faith is also in direct contradiction to America’s native Christianity. It is estimated that anywhere from 50% to 95% of Haiti’s population practices vodoo. Despite a nominal 60% of the population claiming to be Catholic, ritualistic African practices such as animal sacrifice and pagan spirit worship run rampant.
Third Worlders Bring Their Problems to America
When Haitians arrive in America, they don't leave their superstitious and alien culture at the door. They retain the innate qualities that produced the very conditions they have fled, only to reproduce them in America. Springfield should not be taken as one instance among many successful trial runs for immigration but the inevitable terminus of America’s open borders policy.
Since the 1965 Hart-Cellar immigration act was passed, America has absorbed north of 50 million immigrants, the bulk of which hail from the third world. There is an assumption that those fleeing are merely victims of circumstance, that they are just looking to escape the unfortunate conditions of their birth.
Yet, the lived reality of Americans forced to embrace these ungrateful houseguests tells a different story; their very presence incites a sense of unease. They are different; they don’t speak the same language, they don’t share the same heroes, they don’t share the same customs. These differences aren’t incidental, they are innate, and no high school civics class can scrape them away. Americans recognize that they are being displaced, that the country their ancestors built is being stripped from them. Springfield’s saga demonstrates that mass immigration isn't simply just an economic problem but fundamentally a racial one. As the native White, Christian core of America is eclipsed by a deluge of third-world foreigners, the texture of American life will become unrecognizable.
While Ohio Governor DeWine may champion Haitian newcomers as “hard workers,” no number of overtime hours may make them any more American. America can weather recession, boom and bust alike, but it cannot withstand the erasure of its founding stock. It is no coincidence that craven firm owners who profit from cheap third-world labor are the first to reduce America’s nationhood to purely economic terms. While industrialists, aided by a corrupt regime, gamble America’s priceless heritage away for their bottom line, native citizens are stripped of their heritage.
If migration continues at its current pace, the erasure of America's founding stock won’t end at Springfield. The rural towns White Christian Americans have sought refuge in from the cities will grow just as cold and detached. Strange dialects and unrecognizable faces will stretch from the subways of San Francisco to the suburbs of Chicago. White Americans, native-born citizens, will have become foreigners in the country their ancestors built. It might seem distant, but this future is only a decade away, with Whites expected to become a minority by 2045.
With the substitution of America’s European heart, not only will the culture and quality of life see its permanent demise, but so will political stability. It’s apparent that America’s first-world government, the fragile Republic devised by moderate Europeans for a moderate people, cannot be sustained by a third-world politic. America’s foreign-born population, constituted by Europe in the 1800s and 1900s and succeeded by that of the second world, is now being turned over to the third world in Africa and the Caribbeans. It seems every passing decade brings more distant and archaic people to America’s shores, who couldn’t be farther removed from the founders’ vision.
If Americans want a glimpse into the future of their country 100 years down the line should open borders policies persist, they should look no further than Haiti.
Trump comically referenced the reports on national TV, insisting that the migrants were eating the dogs, cats, and pets of their new neighbors. While the veracity of these accounts has been dismissed by authorities (possibly falsely), the sentiment behind them belies a greater truth. Americans recognize that Haitians aren’t American, and they never can be, even if they were to learn English and refrain from poaching park geese.
What stops Haitians from being American is not their unseemly palette choices or their apparent inability to parallel park but their very nature as people. All of the blaring cultural differences that conservatives point to that make them incompatible with American life are derivative of their essential dissimilarity. A cursory glance at Haiti’s history shows that neither colonialism nor institutional racism can be blamed for its dysfunction.
Problems with Haiti
From the moment Columbus arrived on the shores of Hispaniola in 1492, he was greeted by a people “destitute of arms” and technological development. After establishing the first settlement in La Navidad, he returned months later from Spain to find all 39 of his men, who he left to trade with the natives, dead. Cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice may have played a role in their disappearance.
Hundreds of years later, the nation was turned over from the Spanish to the French in 1804, and the natives revolted against their European administrators, murdering not only slave owners but White men, women, and children alike. Haiti, heralded as the scene of the first successful slave revolt in the Western world, is today the poorest and third most violent nation in Latin America.
Due to the staggeringly high murder rate, only 78% of Haitian 15-year-olds will live to 60. Vicious gangs, the most prominent of which is led by a cannibal named Barbecue, have free reign over the nation’s streets. Absent law and order, the country is a global hub for human trafficking, drug running, and gang violence. Political unrest also besets the nation. Since the president’s assassination in 2021, they have not elected a single lawmaker. All 149 of the legislative body’s seats are currently vacant.
Some attribute the country's anarchic condition to the lingering effect of colonialism, citing the $20 billion the country made to pay for its independence to the French bank. Yet, this debt was fully paid off in 1947, and despite the over $20 billion Haiti has received in foreign aid (not including remittances), the country has seen little to no improvement. Ironically, the safest periods in Haiti’s history were during occupation, by either the Spanish, French, or Americans (who invaded in 1915 after the mob assassinated the Haitian president). Its current state marks a return to pre-colonial times.
The presence of lawless gangsters decapitating innocents and torching police stations, while alien to Westerners, is the norm for Haiti’s native inhabitants. The cartel takeover of Haiti is nothing more than a revival of the tribal warfare that existed for thousands of years before the brief respite of European colonization. Haiti’s latest plunge into anarchy only makes a continuation of its permanent revolt against civility and order, whether imposed by a domestic or foreign power.
The cause of Haiti’s perpetual turmoil can be traced to the remarkably low IQ of its native population. The average IQ in the US and Europe sits around 100, and Haiti’s is more than two standard deviations below at 67. With an IQ of 67 or below, half of Haiti’s population would be ineligible for the death penalty due to intellectual impairment. Those with lower mean IQ are more disposed towards crime, irrespective of the socio-economic class they’re born into. Given that IQ is the greatest predictor of criminality, it is no surprise that Haiti boasts a 40.9/100,000 person murder rate as of 2023, roughly 7x that of America’s murder rate of 6/100,000.
While Haiti’s intellectual deficiency alone demonstrates its incompatibility with America’s ethnic fabric, its native faith is also in direct contradiction to America’s native Christianity. It is estimated that anywhere from 50% to 95% of Haiti’s population practices vodoo. Despite a nominal 60% of the population claiming to be Catholic, ritualistic African practices such as animal sacrifice and pagan spirit worship run rampant.
Third Worlders Bring Their Problems to America
When Haitians arrive in America, they don't leave their superstitious and alien culture at the door. They retain the innate qualities that produced the very conditions they have fled, only to reproduce them in America. Springfield should not be taken as one instance among many successful trial runs for immigration but the inevitable terminus of America’s open borders policy.
Since the 1965 Hart-Cellar immigration act was passed, America has absorbed north of 50 million immigrants, the bulk of which hail from the third world. There is an assumption that those fleeing are merely victims of circumstance, that they are just looking to escape the unfortunate conditions of their birth.
Yet, the lived reality of Americans forced to embrace these ungrateful houseguests tells a different story; their very presence incites a sense of unease. They are different; they don’t speak the same language, they don’t share the same heroes, they don’t share the same customs. These differences aren’t incidental, they are innate, and no high school civics class can scrape them away. Americans recognize that they are being displaced, that the country their ancestors built is being stripped from them. Springfield’s saga demonstrates that mass immigration isn't simply just an economic problem but fundamentally a racial one. As the native White, Christian core of America is eclipsed by a deluge of third-world foreigners, the texture of American life will become unrecognizable.
While Ohio Governor DeWine may champion Haitian newcomers as “hard workers,” no number of overtime hours may make them any more American. America can weather recession, boom and bust alike, but it cannot withstand the erasure of its founding stock. It is no coincidence that craven firm owners who profit from cheap third-world labor are the first to reduce America’s nationhood to purely economic terms. While industrialists, aided by a corrupt regime, gamble America’s priceless heritage away for their bottom line, native citizens are stripped of their heritage.
If migration continues at its current pace, the erasure of America's founding stock won’t end at Springfield. The rural towns White Christian Americans have sought refuge in from the cities will grow just as cold and detached. Strange dialects and unrecognizable faces will stretch from the subways of San Francisco to the suburbs of Chicago. White Americans, native-born citizens, will have become foreigners in the country their ancestors built. It might seem distant, but this future is only a decade away, with Whites expected to become a minority by 2045.
With the substitution of America’s European heart, not only will the culture and quality of life see its permanent demise, but so will political stability. It’s apparent that America’s first-world government, the fragile Republic devised by moderate Europeans for a moderate people, cannot be sustained by a third-world politic. America’s foreign-born population, constituted by Europe in the 1800s and 1900s and succeeded by that of the second world, is now being turned over to the third world in Africa and the Caribbeans. It seems every passing decade brings more distant and archaic people to America’s shores, who couldn’t be farther removed from the founders’ vision.
If Americans want a glimpse into the future of their country 100 years down the line should open borders policies persist, they should look no further than Haiti.