I am surprised at the way most users deal with the issue of Haiti, and the Black-hatred here. For those who quoted Torah and the "curse on Hamites", whether on this thread or anyother: Torah says that the curse was on K'naan, one of Ham's son. Some say it only applied to K'naan himself but not on his offsring. But, supposing K'naan descendants are also included, it would apply to Canaanites who no longer exist. Paradoxically, Cannanites were not Black. Furthermore, a curse is supposed to act from Heaven and does not allow human beings to force it to be fullfilled. There is a question about why Noah cursed K'naan while the sin had been commited by Ham. Some say that K'naan might have played an special role in that sin ( seeing Noah naked). Anyway, the Torah is clear that only K'naan received the curse (not any other son of Ham).
Original Haitians were Amerindian Tainos who were completely massacred by Spanish colonialists either directly or by new diseases to which they had no immunity. The current Haitian population is mostly of African origin. They are descendants of slaves brought by the French. Their ancestors were chased like animals in Africa, taken in ships as things. Most of them died in theirs trips, while the surviors were subjected to hard labour and even torture just for the color of their skin. At the same time of the Amerindian genocide and the slave trafficking in America, Inquisition was burning Jews to death just for being religiosly (or even ethnically) Jeiwsh.
How can a Jew or someone who claims to support Israel adhere to that kind of racial hate which was also used against the Jewish People?
How can someone be so insensitive and cruel, just after a major natural disaster, and, to make things worse, desecrate Judaism by quoting the Torah?
Hasn't anyone here realised that this hatred speech damages the Jewish cause for freedom and security?
