Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticatis a Haitian–American novelist and short story writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 January 1969
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Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.
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This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.
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America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934."
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The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.
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Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.
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And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
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Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.
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In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.
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Most of them, they serve the interests of the United States but are not building any kind of permanent structure for the country they are affecting.
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You have also at the same time Castro and the revolution being the glue that held the United States together with a lot of these dictators.
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I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.
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On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.
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I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.
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In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.