[brucek43]

Haiti, slavery

[Popman]

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[snoringbear]

“Haiti, slavery”

When looking for paradigms of hypocrisy, let's not forget Liberia; supposedly established as a refuge for American slaves to live in freedom, equality, peace, etc, etc. So, what did these people do upon arrival? They enslaved the indigenous people of the area...

[pnh102]

Taxes on whitey clearly must not be high enough.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I wonder what Champaign tastes like and if the fingers in those sandwiches came from some of the poorer-performing slaves?

[Does so]

1) In the 80's, Miamians (at minimum) were advised by the press that male homosexuals from the US were traveling to Haiti for inexpensive trysts with "willing" youngsters: a highly-repugnant form of slavery.

2) Upon "discovery" of AIDS, President G.H.W. Bush notably advised us not to think of Haitian immigrants as carriers of AIDS.

:-/

[Dr. Sivana]

And here I thought the scandal was being repressed by the Canadian Broadcast Corporation. It fits the M.O.

[Popman]

A large contingent of people scheduled to fly to Haiti from New York’s JFK last week acted so wildly when they were faced with the reality of the blizzard that crippled air traffic in the Northeast the police had to be called.

I'm not surprised at all. The Haiti elite are very haughty and demanding people. I had one who worked for me who fled Haiti after Baby Doc was tossed. His very rich family was connected and had to leave with almost nothing for fear of their lives

I had to fire him simply because he could not deal with customers. He could not understand nobody cared he was at one time "rich and powerful" I almost lost a major account because he told the owners wife "he doesn't talk to second class people (meaning a women)"

Regular poor as dirt Haitians are very humble hard working people always smiling.

The perfect new home for the U.N. would be Haiti, When they can fix that country give them a shoot at the rest of the world !!!

[Oatka]

Haiti was a mess in the’30s, when we went down there and built roads and set up health clinics as well as other aid. Ten years after we left, everything had deteriorated back to normal (for Haiti).

Haiti was a mess in the mid ‘50s when I was down there courtesy USN. I had mess cook duty and gave our “clean” food garbage to the bumboats alongside. As a 17-year-old I was dumbstruck to see the crew gnawing on leftover chicken bones and licking the ice cream wrappers. Appreciation of America came early to me. The electricians on board got a dungaree allowance as theirs would get eaten up by the battery acid (diesel sub). They’d take these rags (in the full sense of the word) down to the end of the dock and trade them for cigar boxes and other trinkets. I had never seen such poverty before or since.
Haiti is still is a mess today and those who got here, illegally or otherwise, have for the most part, stayed unassimilated. Watch some of the COPS episodes and and see how they still have to use interpreters. And, the areas don’t look much cleaner than Haiti.

[Sidebar] My wife’s folks were on pretty hard times and as newlyweds, we couldn’t help them much. They tried to get on SSI but were refused because they were “rich” - the owned their small home. During the Clinton years (I think) 15,000 haitians flooded in and I read where 5,000 were IMMEDIATELY put on SSI. Social Security is bankrupt and repeated actions like this are one reason.