Posted on 07/10/2018 3:50:58 PM PDT by Trump20162020
On Saturday, the U.S. Embassy in Haiti warned American citizens, volunteers and missionaries in Haiti to stay in place and hunker down after angry demonstrators attempted to get past a barricade and security guards at a Port-au-Prince hotel.
CNN reports that American Airlines, JetBlue and the Spirit Airlines (whose official slogan is: “We’re like a Greyhound bus with wings”) canceled all flights to Haiti following unrest in the country related to rising fuel prices, corruption and widespread poverty.
When comparing them side-by-side, the story of the American Revolution ain’t got shit on the history of Haiti. For black people, Haiti represents the most beautiful story of strength, resistance and freedom that has ever been told. It is the story of a people who thrust off the chains of bondage and took their liberty from the hands of their oppressors.
For others, Haiti is a tragedy. There are some, whose names do not deserve mention, who even refer to it as a “shithole country.” But when discussing anything having to do with the country of Haiti, we should never forget that every bit of struggle in Haiti is related to the legacy of slavery, capitalism and American hypocrisy.
As unrest envelops Haiti once again, it is important for us to remember that Haiti suffers from a worldwide collusion between America and European countries intent on making the tropical paradise suffer. To blame Haiti’s problems on white people is not a harebrained hypothesis. It is an unbelievably treacherous fact that it often sounds like a kooky conspiracy theory.
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I agree. I actually read his whole article, not really expecting to find anything other than vitriol, but when I got to that part, I was like "What??" Now I wonder how many other former European colonies got the same kind of deal, and I wonder why the US backed the French on that.
Don’t ever recall having a Haitian cigar
Thanks
Haiti has NEVER been a viable nation; not ever in its history!
The author must have been rejected at MAD magazine and the Onion, for being to kooky. Haiti is a hellholes country and it been independent since 1804. Haitians should have — instead of killing whites — give liberty to the citizens. If it was done, I bet it could be the richest black nation in the world instead of what it is....
He’s a biased, bigoted, blind, stupid RACIST and means every specious word he writes. This is from THE ROOT, after all.
And I notice that the article links to a Forbes article suggesting that maybe France (not the US) owes Haiti a little return on what amounts to about $21B. Forbes isn't really a radical left wing source.
His son was in power for another 15 years too.
Open borders twits screwing everyone everywhere they leave their slime trails.
I respect and support America's right to build a wall to control who crosses its border and to enforce respect for its laws. All I ask is the same consideration for us.
To hold Haiti to a different standard than a civilized nation is absolutely racist. I'm not talking about nation building but about enforcement of international standards.
Look, a Rwanda-like event is about to be unleashed in Hispaniola. When it happens, YOU won't show up to protect my elderly relatives. The time to inform Haiti they're expected to abide by moral standards is NOW! If you lack the conviction to do so, stand aside, keep your ignorant mouth closed and let the adults in the room take over.
Let Trump build a wall on our border with the left-over concrete from the border with Mexico.
Fixed that for him.
“His son was in power for another 15 years too.”
I had the impression that Baby Doc was weak, more a figurehead for unsavory oligarchs.
Whites need to understand that no matter how much they give to other groups they will still be blamed for everything.
There had to have been a better way to end slavery, say by giving all slaves free passage to the land that their ancestors had unjustly been taken from, and instituting a free labor system to replace them in The South.
In which case we’d be merely discussing what, exactly, was floating on top of the cesspool rather than on the overall contents of the cesspool ... which were the same.
Yeah, that’s pretty much it.
It was tried with Liberia.
The large black population of Washington DC apparently is a part consequence of 1) none of the countries that sold their ancestors into slavery wanted what to them were especially foreigners, 2) they weren’t willing to give up any good land for the project (and the people organizing Libera didn’t have huge deep pockets to buy some nice place even if some African or Muslim prince had been willing to sell them a nice territory), and so 3) Liberia was at the beginning a really bad place and a lot of folks couldn’t handle it there.
As for an actual BETTER option, well ... I’m kinda imaginative and yes, I do see what I as a time traveler might do, or better what a Christian protagonist of a fictional story might do, but that story, which could it have come to pass, would have left many 19th century men North an South gobsmacked (some possibly quite offended) if it got any traction at all so maybe it best left to the corners of the dreams that first gave them form.
I mean, more than just Abolitionist being willing (as they were not, in fact) to do the good that they sought to do at their own expense (doing it at other people’s expense is inherently what it means to use government to make it happen ... though the Brits at least did their version of that the right way) by joining in common cause to free slaves, whole families at a time by buying them out of slavery, and then follow up on that to redress basic issues with the lack of education AT LEAST to the level known among some poor rural whites in this fictions town in this fictional story), and THEN doing even better by doing it for the ennobling reason of serving Christ, or even borrowing the OT idea of a kinsman redeemer for slave who confessed Christ ... that would indeed have been a marvel!
Think of what kind of a healing balm such otherworldly madness might have been to the hearts of its freedmen?
Or what might have been the affect on others even if they thought the folks doing so were loons, but, dear God what magnificent loons!
Like I said, much, much better than anything that happened.
... It was a great dream though....
Of course, going back in time, the best thing regarding slavery would have been to prevent it from ever having happened in the first place.
At least the people can take comfort in the fact that Haiti is not a Sh*thole.
Kipling knew a thing or two. The last stanza if “White Mans Burden” tells it all:
“Take up the white mans burden,
The savage wars of peace,
Fill full the mouth of famine,
And bid the sickness cease,
And when your goal is nearest,
Your hope for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen folly bring all your works to nought
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