COMMENTARY If Florida falsehood-mongers want to spread lies about Haitians in Ohio, they should be fair demonizers and push the lie that all Ohioans commit felonies in Florida. What about our pets?!
Donald Trump isn鈥檛 the only brute spreading the despicably dehumanizing lie that Black Haitian migrants are eating white people鈥檚 cats.
Aside from the former President and current GOP presidential candidate, not to mention his running mate JD Vance, we鈥檝e got our own falsehood-mongers propagating that lie right here in Miami. For starters: notorious Spanish-language radio demagogue Carin茅s Moncada.
Moncada is a right-wing Venezuelan-American Trump devotee who calls herself a 鈥渏ournalist鈥� the way some astrologers consider themselves astrophysicists. She鈥檚 the disinformation diva who once declared the Black Lives Matter racial justice movement a Satanic cult.
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So it鈥檚 no surprise Moncada strapped herself into the MAGA wagon this week to that accuses Haitian migrants of besieging the town of Springfield, Ohio, and devouring 鈥渢he pets of the people that live there!鈥� as an unhinged Trump ranted at Tuesday night鈥檚 presidential debate.
Or as Moncada posted about the video on the Elon Musk disinformation site known as X: 鈥淭he police arrive and find this Haitian migrant woman EATING A CAT.鈥�
Moncada the 鈥渏ournalist鈥� of course never bothered, or cared, that the woman in the video is not a Haitian migrant but a U.S. citizen; that she鈥檚 not actually eating a cat; that the video wasn鈥檛 even shot in Springfield.
Officials there have confirmed quite emphatically that the malicious rumor about Haitians feasting on felines is just that 鈥� the kind of shameless crap that hate-hawkers like Moncada transmit as recklessly as COVID-19 at biker rallies.
Here鈥檚 Moncada's chance to be a real journalist 鈥� to report that the Ohio terror in Florida is a result of DeSantis' open border for white Midwestern men.
But brazen untruths are the incorrigible career path Moncada and her ilk have chosen. So I鈥檝e thought of a way that catty Carin茅s can build some journalistic credibility 鈥� to present herself as a more even-handed insulter, a more equal-opportunity demonizer.
My proposal: Moncada should use her radio pulpit to call on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to keep white Ohio men out of our state 鈥� which is home to America's largest Haitian population.
Here's why:
A big reason the malicious migrant myth has taken hold is that last year one of the 20,000 Haitians who鈥檝e lawfully settled in Springfield in recent years caused a school bus crash that killed an 11-year-old boy.
We certainly shouldn鈥檛 make light of that heartbreaking tragedy. But, as the boy鈥檚 parents , it also shouldn鈥檛 be exploited to politically satanize an entire group of people.
Since that鈥檚 the reality we鈥檙e stuck with, though, let鈥檚 put that twisted logic to work keeping Floridians 鈥� and our pets! 鈥� safe.
Key West threats
You see, the 鈥渇act鈥� is, Florida鈥檚 dealing with an epidemic of violent crime committed by white guys from Ohio.
In just the past year, one Buckeye State Caucasian male after another has been arrested here for felonies ranging from to , , 鈥� and a bar in Key West.
Even an Ohio police chief, named Chad, was a homeless man for no apparent reason.
In her X post, Moncada insists Haitian migrant cat-eating 鈥渋s the result of open borders.鈥� Well, here鈥檚 her chance to be an objective, both-sides reporter 鈥� here鈥檚 her moment to tell Gov. DeSantis that all this Anglo Ohio male terror in Florida is the result of his own conspiracy to let white men into our peninsula so he can turn them into Republican voters.
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Many will perhaps argue we shouldn鈥檛 use those criminal cases to cast blanket judgment on the more than half a million transplanted Ohioans who call Florida home, most of whom no doubt contribute to the life of the state.
Well, those 20,000 Haitians have been widely credited with , too. But that hasn鈥檛 stopped folks from using one case to portray them all as predatory parasites lurking in the suburban shadows to strangle Grizabella, skin her and roast her for lunch.
There鈥檚 just one snag in this plan, though.
As I mentioned, half of the Haitian diaspora in the U.S. resides in Florida. And while they鈥檇 have every right to want to turn the tables and keep Ohioans out of our state, the Haitians I know here wouldn鈥檛 approve of that kind of bigotry.
Even if they did have as masterful a witch hunter as Moncada on their side.
