Haiti Doesn’t Have a Vodou Problem,It Has a Christianity Problem

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Taking a page out of the Gospel of Pat Robertson, Chibly Langlois, Haiti’s first Roman Catholic cardinal revealed the “big social problem” in Haiti: Vodou. He…

Cheeses me so much when Western Catholicism, a force that was and still is part of the colonilization and enslavement of those in the African Diaspora, would dare to turn around and try to blame Haiti’s difficulties on the traditions that helped sustain the spirit of those enslaved and retain their cultural heritage. As well as making it seem like people in Haiti aren’t “working hard enough” to “solve their problems” because “they are too busy going to Houngans and Mambos”.

When in reality, each effort made by the people is met with the negative impacts of cultural genocide by the Church and related western imports, as well as corruption in the government and Capitalist Greed.

Vodou often provides help the best they can when there is nothing else available.

Furthermore, one of the most prestigious Houngans Max Beauvoir is also a certified Bio Chemist with degrees from City College of New York as well as Sorbonne, and was working to combine Vodou spiritual systems with the scientific and spiritual use of medicinal plants for healing.

BEFORE, he himself was driven out of Haiti by Evangelical Christian murderings of Vodou priests and priestess in the face of natural disasters, driven by the zealous panterings of white evangelical Christian ministers.

So is Vodou really the problem? Or the corruption that stems from the colonization, forced diaspora, and enslavement of a people, that continues to be perpetuated by the mechanics of Western Christianity and Catholicism?

You can say that news sources can’t be trusted about the depictions of Vodouisants in positive lights at times, and I can also turn around to point to historical events and modern day manifestations of the intricate links the politics of Western Catholicism and Christianity (internally and externally) have with colonization, cultural genocide, and racial supremacy. 

So don’t fucking tell me that Vodou is the scape goat for Haiti’s road blocks when the hands of White missionaries are the dirtiest amoung them all. Spreading God’s “love” through the genocide and demonization of other cultures because they do not fit your world view.

This is embedded in the doctrines of Western Christian traditions. And unless you yank that shit out of there, or reject it, all you are doing is lily coating it in fake “love” when you try to smear that pasty white shit all over other people’s cultures and traditions.

The Fundamentalist Vatican and Cardinals and other Fundamentalist Zealots can go eat shit.