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As Haiti Burns, Never Forget: White People Did That
The Root ^ | July 9, 2018 | Michael Harriot

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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To: DiogenesLamp

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.


141 posted on 07/11/2018 9:04:10 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: A_perfect_lady

No need to take my word for it. It is all history easy enough to fact check.


142 posted on 07/11/2018 9:04:54 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: MamaDearest

Only Royal Caribbean, basically.


143 posted on 07/11/2018 9:05:33 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Architect of Avalon

How about Africans should never have sold their own people as slaves?


144 posted on 07/11/2018 9:08:50 AM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: suthener
The victor writes the history.

The loser writes the myths.

145 posted on 07/11/2018 9:10:17 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Bull Snipe
"Southern Writers" may or may not mean something in this context. The Liberal TV shows all have their "pet" conservatives whom they can count on to come out and trash the mainstream of the movement, and I would think the same may have been true of the publishing system back then.

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.

146 posted on 07/11/2018 9:19:27 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Architect of Avalon
The modern justification for all of the bad things that were done in the Civil War is slavery.

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

147 posted on 07/11/2018 9:22:18 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DoodleDawg

So does the winner.


148 posted on 07/11/2018 9:24:27 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

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.


149 posted on 07/11/2018 9:37:20 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: griswold3

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.


150 posted on 07/11/2018 9:40:31 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: DiogenesLamp
So does the winner.

And apparently every biographer known to man, if your conspiracy theories be true.

151 posted on 07/11/2018 9:49:56 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DiogenesLamp

“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.


152 posted on 07/11/2018 9:52:47 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: DiogenesLamp
I was mistaken about it not getting into the Northern papers. See the link I sent to BullSnipe previously. Some of it got in to those papers.

I'm looking for the 2 million dead figure and I'm not seeing it in any of the links you provided.

153 posted on 07/11/2018 9:54:59 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Architect of Avalon
Americans should not have gone to Africa and bought slaves.

They didn't.

Do you really believe that?

154 posted on 07/11/2018 9:58:11 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Bull Snipe

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.


155 posted on 07/11/2018 10:40:09 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DoodleDawg
Those are your words that you are attempting to put into my mouth. It is clear that some biographers will attempt to destroy the reputation of those people they write about, but I never said all of them would do so.

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.

156 posted on 07/11/2018 10:44:20 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Bull Snipe
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.

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.

157 posted on 07/11/2018 10:46:20 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
Those are your words that you are attempting to put into my mouth. It is clear that some biographers will attempt to destroy the reputation of those people they write about, but I never said all of them would do so.

Just the ones you disagree with.

158 posted on 07/11/2018 10:46:50 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DiogenesLamp
Because slavery in the South would have absolutely disappeared in the subsequent five years if the South had remained in the Union.

Absolutely, positively disappeared within five years? More opinion masquerading as fact I see.

159 posted on 07/11/2018 10:48:05 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Trump20162020

Haiti is black....... all else stems from that fact


160 posted on 07/11/2018 10:49:03 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... In August our cities will be burning))
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