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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The modern justification for all of the bad things that were done in the Civil War is slavery.
It is for that reason that I address the bad things that were done in the Civil War by addressing how slavery could have been ended a different way.
No need to take my word for it. It is all history easy enough to fact check.
Only Royal Caribbean, basically.
How about Africans should never have sold their own people as slaves?
The loser writes the myths.
One of the reasons I mention a victor preventing history from being written is because many of the events surrounding the Civil War I have only learned of comparatively recently.
I never knew Lincoln sent warships to Sumter. Nothing was ever revealed in any of the history classes that I have attended which mentions the provocation of the Confederate forces at Charleston. All i've ever heard is that one day the hot heads opened fire against Union troops who were minding their own business, and thus started a war.
I didn't know the South produced the vast majority of the trans Atlantic trade for the US. I didn't know that virtually all the money came back through New York.
Details like this should have been front and foremost in any history text that purports to explain the war. Instead all we ever hear is slavery slavery slavery. Most Americans think the Union went to war with the South to eradicate slavery, and many people are surprised to learn that there were Union states that had slavery all through the war.
Most people don't know that Lincoln urged the passage of a bill to further protect slavery, and that this bill did in fact pass congress and would likely have become part of the Constitution if the seceded states had agreed to return.
Why are these important details left out of most history accounts of that period? One can only think they are left out because they reflect badly on those who won the war.
And this is because that is what people have been taught. Information that undermines this view is simply not taught. Have you ever heard of the Corwin Amendment?
http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2013/02/18/the-other-13th-richard-albert
So does the winner.
really sorry that you had such a poor education. Learned about those things in my junior high school history classe in the early 60s. Of course that was in Washington State.
And yet when Haitians come to NYC, they are often wonderful additions. Especially the guys for some reason. I still miss them as taxi drivers (hope they’ve moved on to better jobs) and are amazing line cooks and chefs.
And apparently every biographer known to man, if your conspiracy theories be true.
“The modern justification for all of the bad things that were done in the Civil War is slavery”
This view of the Civil Was is just as incomplete/incorrect as the “lost cause” tenet that slavery had absolutely nothing to do with secession or the coming of war.
I'm looking for the 2 million dead figure and I'm not seeing it in any of the links you provided.
They didn't.
Do you really believe that?
I am not going to say you didn’t, but I am pretty confident most people in America today did not learn anything of those items I mentioned.
Possible, but not what I said.
Oh, and it's no more of a conspiracy theory than noting virtually everyone working in media is liberal. It isn't a conspiracy that makes them liberal, it's a combination of many factors, not the least of which is social urban peer groups with whom they associate.
Because slavery in the South would have absolutely disappeared in the subsequent five years if the South had remained in the Union.
Yes, it was all about that thing that wouldn't have changed at all.
Just the ones you disagree with.
Absolutely, positively disappeared within five years? More opinion masquerading as fact I see.
Haiti is black....... all else stems from that fact
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