[mo]

that's a pretty racist observation there about Haitians. Basically saying they CAN'T help it ...so why try?

So the Jews Moses led out of Egypt really shouldn’t have gone for that independence stuff? That generations of slavery and dependence had so perverted their decision-making capability that culturally they were doomed to dependency and the consequences of poor decision-making?

[wideawake]

So if you disagree with someone's analysis, they're a racist? That's a rhetorical tactic of some kind, but it isn't a conservative one.

Your analogy is terrible, by the way. The Hebrews emigrated to Egypt voluntarily. The African ancestors of the Haitians did not voluntarily emigrate to Haiti. The Hebrews were miraculously liberated from slavery by direct divine intervention, led by divinely appointed prophets to their own ancestral homeland and given a full set of laws and institutions by God himself. The Haitians have not had these benefits.

[ichabod1]

Isn’t that one of the key themes of the story? And when they refused to go up into the Promise Land, the Lord made them wander the desert for forty years, until they got their minds right.

[rabidralph]

Isn’t Israel a socialist country, based on the way they operate?