A city commission meeting at Springfield, Ohio, went viral after video of residents complaining about the 20,000 Haitians who had invaded the city and trashed it became a major political talking point.
At the meeting, Anthony Harris, a local resident alleged that Haitians were, among other things, coming into parks and grabbing ducks by the neck, and then taking them off to eat them.
This from frontpagemag.com.
[Haitians] Grabbing up ducks by their neck,
cutting their head off…and eating them!
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO RESIDENT SOUNDS ALARM: "[Haitians] are in the park grabbing up ducks by their neck, cutting their head off…and eating them!"
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 8, 2024
Memes quickly followed of Trump protecting ducks and cats from Haitian migrants.
The media quickly went into defense mode and began denying there were any “verified” reports of migrants eating pets and ducks. Media outlets also began promoting claims that the allegations were racist.
Erik Crew, staff attorney at the Haitian Bridge Alliance and a Cincinnati native with Springfield roots, said:
This is the same old anti-Black playbook that we’ve seen for hundreds of years in Ohio being rolled out to divide and create hate, especially around election times.
White supremacist and antidemocratic movements have always used the claim that so-called Black savages are coming to destroy, especially when political power is up for grabs. This is no different. This time they are saying it is Haitians, and this time it is being used to try to score political points around immigration as well.
Except the whole thing is coming from a black man. Not that the media tends to let a little thing like that stop its propagandists from doing their thing anyway.
Whether or not any house pets are being eaten, there’s nothing surprising about third-world migrants eating ducks, geese, and swans in the park.
The national rollout of public parks was a noble progressive idea from the 19th century. When non-westerners show up and see ducks and geese waddling about, they see nothing wrong with taking them off to cook them. To them, it’s just food walking around. Ditto for swans.
As Mr. Harris said, “it’s what they’re used to.”
Whether Haitians are eating ducks in the park or not, the full town meeting shows clearly that things are bad in Springfield, Ohio. Complaints about Haitians eating ducks and generally spreading havoc are not racist, unless Mr. Harris is a racist. The underlying issue is illegal mass migration and the abuse of the law to enable it.
TPS or Temporary Protected Status for Haitians is a longstanding problem. TPS has essentially become a permanent protection for Haitians whose country is deemed so bad that it can never be returned to. Dementia Joe chose to free 70% of the Haitian invaders. And what does that look like for Americans? Bad. Pretty bad.
23,584 Haitians became permanent residents in ’16. Haiti is a permanent disaster. So are its immigrants. Only 2,691 or 11% are employed.
Whether or not they eat pets, they’re eating up America starting with places like Springfield, Ohio.
