http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/07/08/child-slavery-in-haiti/ The largest network of Foreign Policy blogs Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:52:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/07/08/child-slavery-in-haiti/#comment-2293 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:13:33 +0000 http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/07/08/child-slavery-in-haiti/#comment-2293 [...] Haiti who fought for freedom from slavery, winning independence from France in 1804, at which time slavery was officially ablolished, has now irronicly become a major global hub for modern slavery, seeing victims trafficked both with in the country and internationally.  In neighboring Domenican Republic the  sugar plantations are feed almost soley off the backs of Hatians, and children are sold like common goods as was seen when Nightline took a A Shocking Look into Child Slavery in Haiti. [...] […] Haiti who fought for freedom from slavery, winning independence from France in 1804, at which time slavery was officially ablolished, has now irronicly become a major global hub for modern slavery, seeing victims trafficked both with in the country and internationally.  In neighboring Domenican Republic the  sugar plantations are feed almost soley off the backs of Hatians, and children are sold like common goods as was seen when Nightline took a A Shocking Look into Child Slavery in Haiti. […]

]]> http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/07/08/child-slavery-in-haiti/#comment-1821 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:15:26 +0000 http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/07/08/child-slavery-in-haiti/#comment-1821 The thing that bothered me about the report is that they did not mention that child slavery goes on in other areas such as the Middle East, in poor areas like Afghanistan. Also, it is VERY common in India as well. There are probably more areas around the world with this problem. For example, just recently, in Georgia, a married couple (an Indian female and a white male) were accused of enslaving another Indian female for years. It was on the news for about 2 minutes and then the story practically vanished. What bothers me about ABC nightline only mentioning of Haiti, is again, the western world, in their disguise of trying to do the right thing, is once again portraying people of African descent as backwards, cruel and naturally delinquent. The only mentioning of Haiti, when this obviously is a worldwide phenomenon is proof enough that they were targeting one group of people to represent modern slavery. Meanwhile, the western world is the force that fuels sexual slavery in places like Thailand, where five year olds are forced into prostitution by their parents. The Russian mail order bride phenomenon is nothing but slavery where you have a woman being bought and sold. However, since it is the western world that commits the crime, it is seemingly all right - it’s supposedly not about slavery, its love. Bull, I know of about two Russian females that have been murdered by their husbands. Nevertheless, for some reason, you will never see headline stories about this on the news because white people have an image to preserve. And stories about white men going overseas to have sex with five year olds, stories about white men killing their Russian slave, stories about both white men and women going to poorer countries as sex tourists just wouldn't do because it'll begin to tarnish their foolish notion of white supremacy. The thing that bothered me about the report is that they did not mention that child slavery goes on in other areas such as the Middle East, in poor areas like Afghanistan. Also, it is VERY common in India as well. There are probably more areas around the world with this problem. For example, just recently, in Georgia, a married couple (an Indian female and a white male) were accused of enslaving another Indian female for years. It was on the news for about 2 minutes and then the story practically vanished. What bothers me about ABC nightline only mentioning of Haiti, is again, the western world, in their disguise of trying to do the right thing, is once again portraying people of African descent as backwards, cruel and naturally delinquent. The only mentioning of Haiti, when this obviously is a worldwide phenomenon is proof enough that they were targeting one group of people to represent modern slavery. Meanwhile, the western world is the force that fuels sexual slavery in places like Thailand, where five year olds are forced into prostitution by their parents. The Russian mail order bride phenomenon is nothing but slavery where you have a woman being bought and sold. However, since it is the western world that commits the crime, it is seemingly all right - it’s supposedly not about slavery, its love. Bull, I know of about two Russian females that have been murdered by their husbands. Nevertheless, for some reason, you will never see headline stories about this on the news because white people have an image to preserve. And stories about white men going overseas to have sex with five year olds, stories about white men killing their Russian slave, stories about both white men and women going to poorer countries as sex tourists just wouldn’t do because it’ll begin to tarnish their foolish notion of white supremacy.

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