by José O Solá | January 24th, 2010
During the course of the semester we will engage the role of religion, church officials, and the clergy played in Latin America. The tragedy in Haiti and the recent comments made by different members of the cloth as well media commentators, government officials and lay people can give us a interesting point of departure for our understanding of racial/ethnic relations/actions in the Americas. Please read the following article from the NY Times in which the writer discusses what is behind these comments and how the comments made a week ago are part of a larger tradition.
Specially I will like to think about a phrase I found in this article: “combining hellfire evangelism with neo-colonialist complacency, in which the Haitians are blamed not only for their sinfulness but also for the hubris of their political rebellion.”
What is the author trying to point to us? What is his argument about here?
jsola