One of the latest things people are freaking out about in regards to President Donald Trump and his administration is his remarks about Haitian immigration.
Media outlets and Democrats and Republicans are arguing over what he said.
An early report stated that Trump referred to some African nations, including Haiti, as a “shithole country.” According to CNN, some sources claimed he said, “shithouse” and not “shithole” and some people said he didn’t use that type of language at all.
The White House press secretary admitted that Trump did use “tough” words but not vulgar words in expressing his reluctance to allow Haitian DACA immigrants to stay in the country.
The fact that this can’t be verified as fact is just beyond me. For some reason in the supposedly most free country in the world, there’s no video or transcript of this White House meeting on immigration where the comments were allegedly made.
But that’s not something you will hear being discussed in the media.
What you will see being discussed is the outrage over the fact that a President would use this type of language when referring to other human beings. One of the individuals that was shocked and upset by these comments was journalist Anderson Cooper.
He recently expressed his disgust for the alleged comments made by Trump on Anderson Cooper 360. The comments were based on his own point of view and his own experiences in Haiti and with Haitian people.
“I was taught math in high school by a Haitian immigrant named Yves Volel, who worked hard, who dedicated himself to teaching kids in America,” Cooper explained. “He ultimately returned to his country of Haiti and was assassinated while running for president.”
He went on to explain that he was in Haiti as a young journalist in the early 1990s and returned when the country was hit with a massively destructive earthquake in 2010.
“Like all countries, Haiti is a collection of people. rich and poor, well educated and not, good and bad,” Cooper explained. “But I’ve never met a Haitian who isn’t strong. You have to be to survive in a place where the government has often abandoned its people. Where opportunities are few and where Mother Nature has punished the people far more than anyone should be punished.”
Cooper hit the President with some low blows after that.
“But let me be clear tonight the people of Haiti have been through more,” he says. “They’ve been through more, they’ve withstood more, they’ve fought back against more injustice than our President ever has.”
Hundreds of thousands of people died and more than 1.5 million people were displaced during the earthquake.
Anderson teared up as he explained how he witnessed a 5-year-old who was rescued by civilians that pulled away rubble from the buried boy with their bare hands. The boy survived on rainwater while he was buried underneath the rubble for seven days.
“Do you know what strength it takes to survive on rainwater buried under concrete? Haitians slap your hand hard when they shake it they look you in the eye they don’t blink they stand tall and they have dignity,” Cooper said.
“It’s a dignity many in this White Jouse could learn from it’s a dignity the President with all his money and all his power could learn from as well. We hope they [Haiti] know our thoughts are with them and our love is with them as well.”
You can watch Cooper’s full remarks in the video below.
Please SHARE this with your friends and family.
