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Big difference between Aruba and Haiti... There's no voodoo subculture and no violent overthrow of colonial power. Dutch colonial society is very different from the French, at least the French in Haiti. French really used Haiti as a slave drop off, and that's not exactly the groundwork for a healthy society. Aruba is mostly run by the citizenry which is 80% mixed race/white and 20%everything else, and the Dutch government is in charge of defense and foreign affairs. All in all a very good balance between independent governance and maintaining ties with the colonial mothercountry. If Haiti followed that path, I wonder how different that country would be.

Maxine Waters has a ghetto drama queen persona though, that rubs most people the wrong way but appeals to enough people that she gets reelected.

If France continues to be the mother country then Haiti would be the same. Maybe we should install Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson as president and let them work their magic.