{"id":9476,"date":"2010-01-13T13:57:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2010-01-13T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T20:57:08","slug":"on-haiti-helping-and-hurting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9476","title":{"rendered":"On Haiti, Helping and Hurting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, you want to help? Great. Here’s a list of charities<\/a>. However if you feel the need to sound anything like Pat Robertson<\/a> I’m going to need you to go sit down somewhere and be silent. The last thing anyone needs after a crisis is the bigots swooping in with lies to bolster their racism. And after all the things that have been done to Haiti over the years in the name of U.S. Foreign Policy<\/a> the last thing they need is white American missionaries handing out condemnation and vilification in the guise of help. Aside from the major logical flaws in these arguments; what makes anyone think offering a helping hand in a crisis is dependent on approving of someone’s religious or social status? Oh wait, if you think that way then you’re a bigoted asshole. Stroking your ego by paying lip service to the idea of assisting victims while bashing them for some imagined sin isn’t true charity or particularly Christ-like. If you’re going to claim to be a Christian you might want to act like one. <\/p>\n

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