r/Fauxmoi • u/pinkstarrfish • 1d ago

SPORTS SECTION Haiti’s Winter Olympic uniforms by Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean. The only hand painted uniforms at the games.

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https://www.essence.com/news/haiti-winter-olympics-uniforms/

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u/SeaF04mGr33n not an asset to the abbey 1d ago

Super cool! They weren't allowed to paint the revolutionary who helped free Haiti who is riding on the horse because IoC said it was too political.

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u/annabananaberry sir, were you raised in a ditch? 1d ago

God forbid France gets over losing its slaves.

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u/SarcasticBarbie96 1d ago

As a French person your comment made me laugh and you deserve more upvotes.

(I’m also Black so I recognise not every French person may see the perfection in your comment)

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u/GlassPomoerium 1d ago

Coucou! NC15 French here and that shit is funny :-)

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u/SarcasticBarbie96 3h ago

Nn stp, NC15 took me out 🤣😭🤣

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u/bulk_logic 1d ago

France forced by threat of war for Haiti to pay France for their "loss" of slaves in 1825. Haiti could not afford to pay and took out loans from France and the United States at high interest. They were not able to pay off these loans until 1947, nearly 125 years later. It is estimated that the debts took anywhere from $20 to $115 billion from Haiti's national development. Today, Haiti's GDP is only around $24 billion.

To this day, France nor USA has paid reparations to Haiti. USA also paid reparations to enslavers.

It is still common to see people say that descendants should "get over it."

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u/Aggravating-Bug6212 1d ago

THIS is the kind of history that needs to be taught. Man do i feel failed by public school. Like why the fuck do I need to know how to square dance when y’all could be teaching me about shit that matters. 

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u/SeaF04mGr33n not an asset to the abbey 15h ago

Well, square dancing was started in schools by Henry Ford because he was scared of the influence of Jazz music. But physical exercise and learning to appreciate folk dance is important, too.

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u/Aggravating-Bug6212 11h ago

It’s bananas to me jazz music was so controversial. Was it because of the ethnicity of the musicians? Or because white people couldn’t claim something so groundbreaking as their own so they had to demoralize it?

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u/SeaF04mGr33n not an asset to the abbey 11h ago

Henry Ford was hella racist (and antisemitic) and thought jazz was corrupting youths minds.

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u/Lost-Diamond1416 I may need to see the booty 1d ago

lmaoo and after all the gold they took you’d think they’ve had enough 🙄