Americans have forgotten how their government shaped Haiti
The migrant crisis is partly America’s doing, but not for the reasons advertised by outraged activists
“I’M PISSED,” said Representative Maxine Waters outside the Capitol on September 22nd. “What we witnessed was worse than what we witnessed in slavery.” Ms Waters was referring to images of Haitian migrants stalked by border agents on horseback in Del Rio, Texas, on the border with Mexico. The agents appeared to be whipping them. The NAACP, a civil-rights organisation, compared the photos to an overseer lashing his slave. Entertainment outlets invited historians—and the vice-president—to muse on the antebellum symbolism of the pictures.
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United States October 2nd 2021
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- The Republican response to an absurd recount in Arizona underscores a threat to democracy
- Americans have forgotten how their government shaped Haiti
- The new Supreme Court term is about to begin
- The jail on Rikers Island is both appalling and generously funded
- Gentrifying prisons in America
- America’s green energy industry takes on the fossil-fuel lobby
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