The White Savior Industrial Complex: Haiti Kidnappings Edition.
How White Westerners create Haitian orphans
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On Saturday October 2016, the New York Times reported that seventeen Americans including three children were kidnapped by a gang in Port Au Prince Haiti. All of the missionaries are members of the evangelical Christian Aid Ministries. They had just been to visit an orphanage and were returning when they were taken by members of an armed gang .Accounts of the incident conjure just the contrast that many white and Westerners love;
the white people are good and the Black people are bad.
It is a false picture that leaves out the complex supply and demand economics that have emerged around human suffering in our vastly unequal world. The contrast of Black criminality and white goodness is a catchy beat, as Monday morning rolled around the media had taken the tone of virtuous resignation Haitian people cannot have good things, it implied, because they just can’t do the right thing. I don’t really like missionaries of any faith; all that performative kindness the push to persuade has always seemed suspect.
Christian Aid Ministries, the charity whose employees and families have been kidnapped, is headquartered in sleepy Millersburg, Ohio, a good place for a charity with a questionable past . In 2019, one of their employees, a man named Jeriah Mast was convicted of sexual abuse of minors. Mast admitted to engaging in sexual activities with boys in the six years he spent in Haiti. According to at least one news source, Christian Aid Ministries knew that the abuse was taking place since 2013 and had done nothing about it.
This happened against the backdrop of a lager crisis in Haiti’s orphanages which have become targets for sex trafficking rings and, child molesters-sho face few consequences even if they are caught. . A Guardian report found that the children were routinely abused sexually and physically.. In about 80 percent of the cases the “orphans” were not orphans at all just kidnapped from their still living parents.
The racial optics of white saviordom are not incidental. In our hyper-performative moment. The gathering of material for self-branding and self-creation is important and photos with Black and Brown kids say so much. Such is the dehumanization of these children that no one thinks about what would happen if visiting Haitians would get similar access to children in the United States.This appears to be cruel reality of our unequal world; some children usually white and Western get a childhood, others have to go live in an orphanage and pretend to be one.
Americans send a lot of money to Haitian orphanages, just one third of the orphanages receive $70 million dollars. The problems in places like Haiti persist, at least in some small part, because the donations collected by organizations are used to hire men like Jeriah Mast; white people who will go to Haiti rather than qualified Haitians who are already in Haiti. The projects that are funded also follow the whims of the donors, schools over latrines, orphanages instead of rural housing. In the aid business the donor always knows best.
If helping Haitians was a real goal, no white saviors would need to travel to Haiti at all. Research has proven that direct cash transfers are best when the goal is to eradicate extreme poverty. Building orphanages which in turn creates a demand for children who can be posed as orphans. Most aid agencies, Christian Aid Ministries likely among them, seem uninterested in this problem. Their very presence, after all, is predicated on the assumption that Haitians are inept and deceitful-unable to get themselves out of the perpetual crises that are its affliction.
I hope the kidnapped Americans, men women and children are all returned safely and soon. For Haitians a good outcome would be if Christian Aid Ministries would call off their programs in Haiti in favor of a direct cash transfer program administered by locally hired Haitians. That would allow Haitians to make their own decisions about where best to allocate resources for the best returns. This, sadly, will never happen, American evangelists heroicize themselves by pointing to the difficult conditions they have endured to save heathen souls. America and the white and western world at large, loves its saviors. They needs Black and Brown people to save, so they can be noble and altruistic to the other’s deceit and criminality.
Haitians, even poor ones, get kidnapped all the time. The forced orphans filling up the orphanages have also been kidnapped, taken away from their families to serve as props for white saviors. As long as the white people stay,, as long as aid organizations provide funds to orphanages-instead of communities, they cannot go home.
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CHURCHILL RACISTS
SHAKESPEAR RACISTS
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BRITISH SHIT - ish EMPIRE
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Churchill Racists & Shakespear Racists ( White Racists ) create ORPHANS & WIDOWS everywhere, all over the world.
These are the Churchill Orphans & Shakespear Orphans.
And these are the Churchill Widows & Shakespear Widows.
The most recent examples are ----- Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Central African Republic, Niger, Ukraine, Syria & Yemen etc. etc.
British Nazi Empire committed these BARBARIC CRIMES in the whole world for 1,000 years : :
- Killed 600 million Civilians
- Started 28,000 Genocidal Wars
- Had 7,000 Churchill Death Camps & Shakespear Death Camps in the Colonies
( These Death Camps are also called, Churchill Auschwitz & Shakespear Auschwitz )
- Raped 400 million Women & Children
- Created 300 million British War Criminals
- Mercilessly Looted the Colonies for 1,000 years with impunity
- Carried out Barbaric Medical, Chemical & Weapon Experiments upon men, women & kids in the colonies. The whole British Medicine Industry, Chemical Industry & Weapon Industry is standing upon these Criminal & Genocidal Experiments, which is also the source of a vast amount of revenue for the Terrorist British Shit - ish Government.
Qasim Khan
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NAZI & TERRORIST WINSTON CHURCHILL KILLED 25 - 30 MILLIONS IN THE BRITISH SHIT - ish EMPIRE
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Rafia, your writings are hurting the fragile sensitivities of the good white folks by taking away the “feel good” they get out of providing token assistance to people of nations whose resources their very governments have pillaged using their own tax dollars (or Pounds, or Francs, or…insert currency of your favorite imperialistic country here). Don’t take away the romance and the fantasy of “I’m doing a good deed (and taking selfies to prove it)”.