[The_Reader_David]

Funny, no one has applied the same scrutiny to what Danny Glover has said about Haiti.

That's because Glover's remark is simply stupid beyond stupid and totally unanchored in reality.

Robertson's remark is stupid in a more interesting way: he is taking the easy way out on the problem of theodicy. Remember that the Lisbon earthquake figured prominently in Voltaire's attacks on Christianity and Leibniz. In, perhaps trying to fight his own unbelief, Robertson ends up not even like the uncomprehending disciples in John's Gospel asking about whose sin was the cause of the man being born blind, but like the Pharisees who denounce him after the blind man's healing, "you were born in utter sin and would you teach us?.

[hellbender]

Remember also Job's misguided "friends" who told him that his own sin must have brought about his misfortune, when actually he was an innocent victims of spiritual warfare in high places. Then there's Ecclesiastes 9:11: " The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all." [my emphasis] Some things really are accidents, which have nothing to do with the character of the victims! For example, it is no credit to me that I was born in the greatest country in history, rather than Haiti.

[Louis Foxwell]

Thank you for your insight and wisdom.
One fact remains clear about Haiti. It never ended slavery. That evil was simply transposed from the French to indiginous tyrants. Haiti has never thrown off the shackles of slavery.
There was a brief time, following Baby Doc, when democracy seemed to be emerging. Then Aristide was elected and the tyranny of fascism gained control again. Even after he was deposed by popular will of the people it was our own government that returned the evil Marxist to power and destroyed a burgeoning light industry sector supporting 90% of the population.
The US has been complicit in the perpetuation of slavery in Haiti. Under our current leadership the enslavement of the people of Haiti will continue.