00:06:55.000mixed with European, French, explorers, and a smaller indigenous Taino component.
00:07:01.800As is generally the case in regard to descendants of Africa,
00:07:05.760the IQ of Haitians is much lower compared to Western countries,0.99
00:07:09.560With averages on some studies dipping into the 60s, indicative of profound mental challenges with abstract thinking, self-control, and conceptualizing the future.
00:07:21.480So while the tiny island produced Gerard Alphonse, a prominent physicist and engineer who holds over 60 U.S. patents and technologies essential to computers, microwaves, and ultrasounds, Haiti has not produced many Gerard Alphonses.0.93
00:07:38.180The fate of Haiti and its people is not sealed, and yet it is still fitting to say Haiti and its people have no place in the United States or the Western world as a whole.0.99
00:07:51.060They are not compatible with Western Christian civilization.1.00
00:07:55.180When Catholicism arrived in Haiti with Columbus and was colonized as a Catholic state in the 1500s,0.84
00:08:02.560native Haitians syncretized West and Central African folk traditions with Catholicism.
00:08:09.000Under slavery, it was often practiced covertly, with Catholic saints serving as covers for the Loire spirits.
00:08:16.900Resultingly, both downstream of their rebellion against the Christian faith and their African predisposition to violence,
00:08:23.740and the lack of intelligence needed to operate a nation state, Haiti revolted against France in 1791
00:08:31.200and has since become one of the most destitute, violent places on earth.
00:08:37.340No elected government or legislature exists, and the state has been a humanitarian black hole for decades.0.98
00:08:43.640It is not unchristian or uncharitable to describe Haitians as a people dull of thought,1.00
00:08:51.180violent in action, highest homicide rate in the world, and entirely unfit to rule themselves.0.98
00:08:59.660These are not just traits of Haitian culture, but of Haitian people. By divine providence and their0.92
00:09:06.280willful rebellion, Haiti has been, to this point, a land of darkness and evil, and the race of1.00
00:09:13.560Haitians, again by divine providence, a race of brawlers, fiends, and beasts. They are, on the1.00
00:09:21.820whole, violent and impulsive, and in need of governance. These are not trivial or needlessly
00:09:29.840provocative words, but a sober and honest assessment of the Haitian people and nation,
00:09:35.860as they presently are, and they are increasingly relevant as some 850,000 Haitian refugees
00:09:43.760press to be made permanent citizens of the United States after being granted temporary
00:09:49.920protected status years ago. The description is meant to be accurate and truthful, not gratuitous.
00:09:59.440It is also precisely the way the Apostle Paul speaks of the Cretans, the people of the
00:10:05.780large island south of Greece, when he cites one of their own prophets who described them as0.99
00:10:11.220always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons. This testimony is true. Titus 1.12.1.00
00:10:22.780Church history has long recognized that general statements about people who share a common descent,
00:10:28.860language, and geography, can be accurate, generally true, and helpful. For further reading,
00:10:36.780examine Who is My Neighbor, an anthology of natural relations in the Western church and
00:10:42.900political tradition. To the intellectually honest inquirer, this should suffice to demonstrate the
00:10:49.720reality of race as a shared, genetic reality that is neither deterministic nor meaningless.
00:10:56.980Debate exists on how much race matters, but there is no serious denial that it is real.
00:11:03.920Even before an understanding of genetics could be articulated, wise and godly men knew that immediate families, extended kin, tribes, nations, and races shared a collective identity that could be spoken of in true, moral, and meaningful terms.