What does it mean to be your brothers keeper? Are we as humans accountable to each other? Should we feel a sense of responsibility when our neighbor is being harmed? On April 24th, 2010, A homeless man who was stabbed while saving a woman from a knife-wielding attacker lay dying in a pool of his [...]
Month: August 2010
The Depiction of the Haitian People and Voodoo in Society
As a child growing up, whenever anyone heard that I was Haitian, they immediately assumed that I knew and practiced Voodoo. This was not only offensive because I was a Christian, but it was more so offensive because voodoo was not considered a positive thing. It was not seen as a religion or a way [...]