Username4242 details Pat Robertson's bigoted, ignorant, and evil ramblings on Haiti.
The short version is that he thinks that the Haitians made a deal with the devil 200 years ago.
Robertson said a similar thing about the the victims of Katrina, who, like the Haitians were disproportionately of African origin.
His real issue here is that he thinks that blacks are Children of Ham (scripture after break), and thus should be slaves, and are punished for not knowing their place.
Now you know that I think that Robertson is pond scum, and here is where I go meta:
When I posted on the death of the Holocaust shooter, I made mention of his being in hell, and I got a couple of TR's.
I understand that TR's mean very little in the greater scheme of things, but I legitimately think that the passing of some people should be celebrated: Whether James von Brunn, or Pat Robertson, when they pass, the news of their departure should be a cause for open and enthusiastic celebration.
This is not a purely academic exercise: Robertson turns 80 in March, so unlimbering for the happy-dance is a prudent preparation.
Here is the relative portion Bresheit (Genesis) 9:25-27, from the NIV edition, because that is what I Googled:
25 he said,
"Cursed be Canaan!
The lowest of slaves
will he be to his brothers."
26 He also said,
"Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem!
May Canaan be the slave of Shem. [a]
27 May God extend the territory of Japheth [b] ;
may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,
and may Canaan be his [c] slave."
Footnotes:
a. Genesis 9:26 Or be his slave
b. Genesis 9:27 Japheth sounds like the Hebrew for extend.
c. Genesis 9:27 Or their
The context is that in the story of Noah, every one's favorite ark builder gets drunk, and one of his children, Ham, did something bad, it's unclear what, the literal reading would imply what he let his father remain passed out and naked, though some commentaries suggest that castration was involved. (I'm sure that this is more than you really wanted to know)
In any case, his children (Canaan is mentioned in this section) are then cursed to be slaves, and when you look at Ham's children, who are named after city-states of biblical times, they are all in Africa.
Antebellum, Southern preachers used this passage to justify slavery.