Gina Ulysse's Article

Why Haiti Needs New Narratives Now More Than Ever speaks volumes about how the world views Haitians and Haiti.  The stereotypes about Haitians that are brought up in this article are sadly very true.  I don't want to say that I ever viewed Haitians to quite the extent that this article says that people view them around the world, but I will admit that before taking this class, I had a very skewed view that all Haitians lived in poverty and all Haitians were dark-skinned, which is obviously not true and a very ignorant perspective on my part.  Though now I feel much more educated talking about Haiti and it's native people, I still feel there's a lot left that I could learn. 

The fact that reporters went over to Haiti after the disastrous earthquake and then had the nerve to portray them as "indifferent" to the dead bodies laying in the streets just shocks me.  You go into someone else's home territory just to get your news story and take it back to where ever you came from without even thinking twice about making these innocent people look heartless and apathetic to the devastation they have just witnessed.  The example where the reporter asked the woman if she had a chance to bury her children and the only word he could understand was "jete" so he just assumed that she "threw them in the trash".  That made me so mad.  How could you write a story about a woman throwing her kids in the trash when you aren't even sure that's what happened?!?  And then to find out in reality that she actually never got a chance to bury her two children because they were thrown into a mass grave.  That breaks my heart for that woman.  Then a totally separate example where the reporter asks someone "Why don't you Haitians cry?".... That is the most racist, ignorant question I've ever heard.  No matter what race you are, we all cry and we all hurt.  Maybe he never stopped to think that the person was in shock and couldn't even fathom what had happened.