DALLAS – Community is significant to members of Dallas Haitian United . That’s why supporting fellow Haitian Vallery Jean-Bart’s “Val’s Blue Label” this Wednesday night was important.
Coming to the South Akard Street location for his tempting cheesecake and some member-made Haitian cuisine may have been what they needed.
“It’s just sad the lack of humanity that there is,” said Marla Jolicoeur, a first-generation Haitian American born in the United States to Haitian parents.
She said the location has nothing to do with the impact of what’s being said about what Haitians eat on social media and even in the presidential debate by former President Donald Trump.
“In Springfield (Ohio), they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” Trump said. “They’re eating — they’re eating the pets.”
Officials in Ohio have repeatedly said the claim has no merit. But the baseless theory still breathes outside the debate, prompting bomb and death threats against facets of the Haitian community.