Haitians (And Other Immigrants) And The Slavery They're Still Committing In America

The Media Is NOT Covering This

Recently journalist Andy Ngo tweeted:

Two black women in Portland, Ore. have been federally indicted for allegedly keeping three Haitian slaves and forcing them to work at their business.

But it’s not exactly two black American women, and it’s certainly not two “Oregon” women, as the headline on the Post Millennial story he was linking to said—it’s two Haitian women.

The story says

An Oregon mom and daughter have been indicted by the Department of Justice on human trafficking and forced labor charges. The pair allegedly put three Haitians, including a minor, in "indentured servitude" at an adult care home they owned and operated in Tigard, a city located southwest of Portland, according to a press release from the Justice Department.

Marie Gertrude Jean Valmont, 66, and Yolandita Marie Andre, 30, are accused of using violence and threats to force their victims to work long hours for little or no pay. The seven-count indictment charges both of them with conspiring with one another to commit forced labor, committing forced labor, and benefitting from forced labor.

Marie Gertrude Jean Valmont and Yolandita Marie Andre are French names, which should tell you their owners hail from Haiti—regular American blacks wouldn’t have the connections to acquire Haitians as “indentured servants”, i. e. slaves. (The Post Millennial says “Valmont is from Haiti and Andre is from the Dominican Republic, but both are US citizens and have been in the country for more than a decade.”)

Slavery, as I’ve pointed out before, is not a part of American culture. It is, and has been for many centuries, a part of African culture. The reason 18th and 19th century Americans had African slaves was because Africa was, and more or less still is, the only place in the world where people were for sale. And it’s a part of Haitian culture today.

Although Haitians freed themselves bloodily from their French rulers in 1792, they very shortly started enslaving each other.

Henri Christophe (black President, and later “King” of Haiti) is thought to have forced hundreds of thousands of people into laboring on Citadelle Laferrière, above, killing an estimated 20,000 of them. (Wikipedia.)

The current form most Haitian slavery takes is called the restavek system.

Wikipedia says that

A restavek (or restavec) is a child in Haiti who is given away by their parents to work for a host household as a domestic servant because the parents lack the resources required to support the child.^[1] The term comes from the French language rester avec, "to stay with". Parents unable to care for children may send them to live with wealthier (or less poor) families, often their own relatives or friends. Often the children are from rural areas, and relatives who host restaveks live in more urban settings. The expectation is that the children will be given food and housing (and sometimes an education) in exchange for doing housework. However, many restaveks live in poverty, may not receive proper education, and are at grave risk for physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.

If in the Current Year, a black person is held in domestic slavery in North America or Britain, the person so holding them is also generally black.

The same applies to other groups of immigrants: Filipinos are holding other Filipinos as domestic slaves, Mexicans are holding other Mexicans as forced labor on farms, and Indians are enslaving other Indians, although probably of a lower caste.

When reports of this kind of slavery occurring in the US reach the papers, it’s generally only the victim who is referred to as an immigrant. The Post Millennial headline Oregon mom, daughter indicted for trafficking Haitians in 'indentured servitude' at adult care home: DOJ could just as easily have read Haitian mom, daughter indicted for trafficking Oregonians in 'indentured servitude' at adult care home.

But that’s not how the media thinks—the headline always has to make the immigrant the victim, even when it’s immigrant-on-immigrant.

For VDARE.com last year I did an article on Somalia-born British Olympian Sir Mo Farah, who got two gold medals for running fast, and a knighthood to boot.

Farah revealed in 2022 that he was brought under a false name and “trafficked” i.e. sold as a slave—it wasn’t his parents who brought him—and forced to work in the UK [Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child, BBC, July 16, 2022].

The American Conservative’s Helen Andrews commented

Well, there aren’t nearly as many people held in slavery in the US as there were in 1865—most fruit pickers, though underpaid, are free labor—but when immigrants are held in slavery, it’s other immigrants doing it, mostly of the same ethnicity.

On VDARE last year, I provided a brief list.

• 2002: Immigration Policy Importing Slavery by Carl Horowitz (Cameroonian immigrant husband and wife enslave teenage Cameroonian girl in Silver Spring, MD)

• 2004: The Refugee Industry, Slavery, And Rape by me (Albanian Gypsy teenager sold by her mother to another Gypsy family as a sex slave in Rochester, NY)

• 2004: Immigration and Slavery by me (Filipino couple (the man was a doctor, who could have afforded housekeeping wages) kept a Filipino woman in domestic slavery in Milwaukee, WI—for twenty years.)

• 2011: A Minnesota Reader Reports That Immigration Has Brought Slavery To A State That Never Had It Before by a reader (A Korean immigrant entrepreneur kept five Hispanic illegals in his basement on no wages )

• 2013: Pakistani Slave Ring Ran...7-Elevens? What Is This, THE SIMPSONS? by me (Pakistani 7-11 franchise owners operated a "modern day plantation system" with Pakistani immigrants working 100 hours a week for almost no wages)

• 2016: A Reader Reports Nigerians Committing Slavery In America by a reader (A Nigerian couple enslaved a Nigerian girl in Houston, TX. The headlines, as usual, said “Texas Couple”.)

• 2019: Oh, the Humanity! "New Jersey Woman" Gay-Marries Her Slave for Immigration Fraud by Steve Sailer. (A Jordanian woman had a Sri Lankan woman she was keeping as a slave—and forced her into same-sex marriage for immigration fraud reasons in Hudson County, NJ.)

• 2021: Immigrants Committing Slavery: Hindu Temple Using Untouchable Workers As Slaves In New Jersey by me (One caste of Hindu immigrant using another caste as slaves to build a Hindu temple in Robbinsville, NJ.)

As you can see, immigrants are coming to America and wanting freedom for themselves—but not their slaves. America has, as a result of the Civil War, a great antipathy to slavery, but people from Haiti, Africa, the Philippines and India are failing to assimilate to that.

In one sense, however, alleged slaveholders Marie Valmont and Yolandita Andre have assimilated to American culture.

The Post Millennial reports

In 2021, court records show that Marie Jean Valmont, the mother who was indicted, sued a Portland nonprofit for $250,000 for alleged racial discrimination after she was fired.

That’s assimilation for you!

But remember, when you see a report that says something like Texas couple charged with forcing nanny to work for no pay, check to see if the “Texas Couple” aren’t Nigerians themselves, like their victim.

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