My remarks below derive from my having worked and lived in the Caribbean and several countries in Africa, particularly Angola and Mozambique. Also my remarks are based on my being a Christian in the tradition of Jesus-Christ with respect for all and for the truth.
Voodoo stereotyping is racist, obsolete and based on untruthful statements and ideas. Thus to damn a country, the first democratic attempt in the whole of the Latin America sub-continent, and the first African American attempt to eliminate slavery, and successful at that and in itself another reason for its damning by some, is unacceptable, not charitable and un-Christian. Most of all is NOT TRUE.
Referees & References
-Jan 15’2010’s Cartoon by Luckovich Atlanta Journal Constitution. 6:49 pm January 14, 2010, by AJC Opinion http://blogs.ajc.com/mike-luckovich/
-Article taken from PRI’s The World – http://www.theworld.org
URL to article: http://www.theworld.org/2010/01/21/haitis-voodoo-religion/
http://media.theworld.org/audio/012120107.mp3
Professor Sibylle Fischer. NYU.
Author Robert Lawless. 1992. Haiti’s Bad Press. Schenkman Books, Inc. ISBN # 0-87047-
Professor Gina Ulysse. Anthropologist at Wesleyan University
http://www.theworld.org/2010/01/21/haitis-vodou-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-5678
Signed,
T. Manning
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