Pye, who ran a missionary orphanage in Jacmel, Haiti, is alleged to have engaged in illicit sexual molestation with minor female children who resided at his orphanage.

In a federal criminal complaint, prosecutors accused Pye of molesting three of the girls in his care. One was 6 years old at the time. Her mother was fired from her job at the orphanage after she confronted Pye, according to the complaint, although he continued to pay her, in what appears to be a form of hush money.

The complaint lists four victims, with most of the abuse centered on the then-6-year-old, who spoke with investigators in 2015.

The Melanoid people who identify with being Dominican have demanded that their Haitian Brothers and Sisters leave the Dominican Republic. It’s extremely unfortunate, considering that their fallout has a long history of them being manipulated by the white supremacist colonists on both sides (the French for Haiti and the Spanish for the Dominican Republic). As we witnessed yet another view of the Black experience, we must be mindful of just how diverse it is. The circumstances may vary, yet the fundamental causes are the same.

From the super wealthy Europeans who manipulate conflicts among the native Africans as they lust for the natural resources of the mother continent, to the eradication of Melanoid people in Australia, the Black experience is much like the traditional quilts that our mothers and grandmothers would create in generations past: colorful, elaborate in its composition, yet a body of work that has been passed down to act as a narrative to our experience.

Oftentimes, the Black experience is limited to that of the Melanoid people who have resided in Urban America since the Great Migration of the early 1900s. We’re all too familiar with the Black experience as it pertains to “the hood”, yet there are countless Melanoid people in rural and suburban America alone who experience their own version of “Black plight”. The geographic isolation of these Brothers and Sisters is enough to pose a challenge in itself, although it is neither greater–nor or worse–than the Black experience of “the hood”.

The Black experience in Europe is a prime example. Much has been said of the day-to-day dealings of Melanoid people in places such as the U.K. and France, yet the underlying issue remains that they too, experience–and often find ways to counter–racism/white supremacy “across the pond”. An interesting sector of the diverse Black experience on a global scale involves the masses of Melanoid folks who have migrated to Asian countries such as Japan, where the Black experience takes on a life of its own.

Despite our language barriers, the food we eat, or the geographical regions we live in, a Black experience in one area is only represents the patch in the quilt that encompasses the entire Black experience…and this is the ONLY “diversity” we should concern ourselves with at this point in time.

According to the story, approximately 250,000 Haitians will be made stateless, which will give Dominicans free reign to deport the Haitians who are in the Dominican Republic. Apparently, this has been an issue that started as early as 1822, after Haiti invaded and conquered the DR, thus freeing the slaves there in the process. Ninety years later, in 1912, the policymakers of the Dominican Republic mandated that there be a limit on how many “Black skinned” people could enter their country.

Fast forward to 2015, and the Dominicans are making a push to remove the Haitians from this area. The Dominican government has announced that it plans to give nationality back to those Haitians who were born in that nation, so long as they  enroll with a civil registry. In reality, many other media outlets are only focusing on the political aspects of the Dominican/Haitian fallout. However, we as Melanoid people must be cognizant of the fact that this conflict stems from a place of self-hate and the Dominican Republic’s citizens’ willingness to identify with the European slave-owning Spanish who colonized the island.

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