Mrs.Dezod🇭🇹🌱
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Mrs.Dezod🇭🇹🌱
@sndra_l
Just a girl in a wild world 🌍 | Obsessed with nature 🌿 | Rooted in the future of Haitian agriculture 🇭🇹🧑🏾🌾
Haiti Katılım Ocak 2023
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We’ve been watching these from baby plants to now flowering 🥔🌱🇭🇹
These are new potato varieties grown from true seeds -more adaptable to local conditions and stronger through harvest (less damage, less loss).
At the iF Foundation 🇭🇹
Real growth, real time.
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@rolfrho Makes me happy to know i’m not the only one that feels the sentiment! .. it’s 100% time for a language change when it comes to talking about Haiti and Haitians.
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Find better language for Haitians than “resilient.”That word reduces us to survival. Expand the narrative. Call us what we are: Self-determined. Visionaries. Architects. Cultivators.
We are not what we’ve been forced to endure- we are what we choose to become, beyond it.
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@WensdePaul Not completely and that’s the point.
The chains changed form. From physical to mental, from forced to repeated.
Every time we accept labels that reduce us to survival, we keep a piece of those chains alive.
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@sndra_l Did we ever really, truly break the mental chain, though?
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Our greatest act of strength was breaking our own chains-and rejecting every name our oppressors forced onto us.
So why are we still accepting labels that reduce us to survival?
We already proved we can define ourselves. It’s time we act like it.
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Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED talk guys needed to get that out because I’ve been thinking about these words for a while. 😮💨🇭🇹❤️
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If I hear “Haitians are so resilient” one more time, I might actually lose it.
Resilience isn’t some cute personality trait- it’s what people are forced into when the world keeps failing them.
What other choice do they have?
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@60Minutes @andersoncooper If you really want to "Help" Haiti Do a @60Minutes report on this group of criminals. You won’t have to fly to Haiti. Just go to Florida.
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"I have never been to a place that has more resilience than Haiti," said Anderson Cooper. cbsn.ws/4six1Iz
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@nuSlimGod I hear you..but Haiti isn’t strong because people are “resilient,” it’s strong because people have been forced to survive what they shouldn’t have had to.
That’s not something to glorify.
Endurance isn’t the goal ..change is. 🙏🏾❤️
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@sndra_l I understand your point but resilience is what makes Haiti strong. If it were not for the resilient people of Haiti it would've turned into some gentrified island. Eventually something will give and Haiti will rise again. If resilience is all she has at the moment, so be it.
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@sndra_l AGREE! I’ve been thinking about how often we’re called “resilient,” and it doesn’t feel like a compliment anymore. It feels like a way of accepting the conditions we shouldn’t have to endure. As long as we’re praised for surviving, there’s less urgency to create real change.
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@Rustybridges15 Your profile literally says MAGA..and I will not be here to answer any of these questions for you.
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@sndra_l If it wasn’t for all the whites that you hate, who would be coming to help Haiti?
You ever seen a group of Black Lives Matter activists show up to help their black brothers?🤣🤣🤷♂️🤦♂️👍🏿
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@Li_dee Awe!!! 👏🏾❤️😌 Exactly. At some point “resilience” stops being praise and starts being expectation.Surviving with no real options isn’t strength being honored it’s injustice being tolerated.
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Finally, someone who shares the same perspective as me.
I feel like the word “resilience” is often misused, especially when it comes to us Haitians… as if it’s something to celebrate, when in reality it’s just a response to constant injustice.
When people keep repeating “they’re resilient,” it starts to feel like a way of normalizing suffering instead of demanding better. Almost like: they’ll manage anyway.
And your question hits the core: what other choice do they have?
That’s not admiration — that’s a lack of options.
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@rvminceur I hear that too, but even that framing keeps us tied to survival. The goal isn’t to hold onto resilience, it’s to outgrow the need for it. Let the conditions change so deeply that we’re no longer defined by how much we can endure, but by how freely we can live, build, and exist.
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@sndra_l The conditions must change, the resilience must stay.
But I hear you.
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@rvminceur Having an adaptive nature isn’t the issue. The issue is when that adaptability is constantly required because of conditions that should’ve never existed in the first place and then gets labeled as something to celebrate instead of something to question.
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@sndra_l Possessing an adaptive nature is not a bad thing.
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@WensdePaul Yeah, we do bring up the revolution a lot…and honestly, what have we built after it? And what are we doing today?
That’s not disrespect to our history at all..but it is a real conversation we need to have.
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@sndra_l While we're on the subject, can we stop using the revolution as if it was a current achievement? How many times have we been living off of what our ancestors did? Constantly with the shit.
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