Tag: Haiti

Can you find anything from your reading of James Weldon Johnson’s 1920 description of the US occupation of Haiti to support what Danticat says above?

2nd part-“The Truth About Haiti”

In “So Brutal a Death,” Edwidge Danticat describes her reaction to the murder of George Floyd: the image of these police officers squeezing the life out of Floyd might serve as a metaphor for the way U.S. Administrations have, for generations, dealt with the countries many of us come from—through invasions, occupations, wars, the buttressing of dictators, and the removal of democratically elected governments, among other tactics.

Can you find anything from your reading of James Weldon Johnson’s 1920 description of the US occupation of Haiti (“The Truth About Haiti”) to support what Danticat says above? Please use specific examples.