Celebrated morbidly obese Haitian-American novelist complains

Roxane Gay, cousin of former Harvard president Claudine Gay, recounts that white kids touched her brother's hair.

American affirmative action has been very, very good to the Haitian Gay clan.

Roxane Gay is a critically acclaimed morbidly obese novelist, op-edster, and the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.

Her first cousin Claudine Gay is a plagiarist who was briefly president of Harvard for George Floyd reasons before resigning in disgrace.

Roxane is not a plagiarist, as far as we know, but her new essay in The New Yorker on how tough she had it as a Haitian in America reads like the last 10,000 essays published by Women of Color with creative writing degrees about how much white America owes them for oppressing them due to hair-touching and the like.

THE HAITIAN QUESTION

by Roxane Gay

The history of Haitian immigration to the United States is that of politicians on both sides of the aisle fighting to keep Haitians out of the country, with equal cruelty.

When my brothers and I were growing up in Omaha, Nebraska, in the nineteen-eighties, we were the only Black kids at our school, let alone the only Haitian Americans.

In other words, her wealthy parents not only left black Haiti, but they also picked out a racially exclusive school for their children to attend. Her dad, who owned a concrete and construction company, later sent her to Phillips Exeter Academy boarding school in New Hampshire (current tuition $67,000).

This wasn’t a problem until it was. Sometimes, the other students asked why my parents “talked funny,” which my brothers and I didn’t really understand, because we only heard the lilting cadences of their voices. There was a period when my youngest brother’s classmates touched his hair,

Of course.

But not me, implies Roxane: I have good hair.

because it was tightly curled, but he was light-skinned, and they couldn’t quite figure out what that meant.