From Haytham: "Regarding the racism of David Brooks—he wrote a column several years ago after the Haiti earthquake that was, I think, more explicitly racist than his piece about Egypt. I was shocked at the time that nobody called him out on it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/opinion/15brooks.html?_r=0
"As Lawrence E. Harrison explained in his book “The Central Liberal Truth,” Haiti, like most of the world’s poorest nations, suffers from a complex web of progress-resistant cultural influences. There is the influence of the voodoo religion, which spreads the message that life is capricious and planning futile. There are high levels of social mistrust. Responsibility is often not internalized. Child-rearing practices often involve neglect in the early years and harsh retribution when kids hit 9 or 10. We’re all supposed to politely respect each other’s cultures. But some cultures are more progress-resistant than others, and a horrible tragedy was just exacerbated by one of them."
