I\u2019m weary of people blaming me for calamities both natural and premeditated. Recently, religious charlatan Pat Robertson attributed the disastrous earthquake in Haiti \u2013 as well as its tragic history of slavery, colonialism, bloodthirsty leaders, crime, poverty, hurricanes, floods, and other disasters \u2013 to a \u201cpact with the devil\u201d by leaders of the 1791 slave revolt who urged other owned humans \u201cto throw away the image of the god of the whites who thirst for our tears and listen to the voice of liberty that speaks in the hearts of all of us.\u201d They sealed their commitment by drinking the blood of a pig. What has this to do with the devil? I assure you I was not present \u2013 God and I are never plausibly present \u2013 and most strenuously denounce Robertson\u2019s deceitful claim that I said, \u201cOkay, it\u2019s a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe devils Haitians dealt with were French who enforced a trade blockade then bled the small nation with eighty years of reparations. The French, and slave owners as an unholy group, were doubtless aggrieved by the specter of similar revolts elsewhere if slaves learned about the only successful act of liberation in the New World. It was inevitable that newly freed but uneducated and untrained people struggled to subsist in a strange and distant land of tropical heat and storms and disease. But Pat Robertson really believes Haitians suffered then, and continue to do so, because they sacrilegiously fought to free themselves from Christians armed with chains. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m weary of people blaming me for calamities both natural and premeditated. Recently, religious charlatan Pat Robertson attributed the disastrous earthquake in Haiti \u2013 as well as its tragic history of slavery, colonialism, bloodthirsty leaders, crime, poverty, hurricanes, floods, and other disasters \u2013 to a \u201cpact with the devil\u201d by leaders of the 1791 slave…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,324,323,94,857],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n