"Now go do....that voodoo.....that you do.....so well!"
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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“Or maybe because it never happened?”
Ironic that a poster would come on a thread illustrating the insanity of blaming others for the calamities your own people bought on themselves, and repeating the same sort of projection, isn’t it?
And a lot of them didn't.
And you are entitled to believe in those things that don't make actual sense in the real world.
The money evidence would be causing grave doubts for me were I in your shoes. It doesn't look good at all.
You don't think Haitian women should be allowed birth control?
Haiti is a further example of how any thing bad in the world can ultimately be traced back to the French.
But the US loved Papa Doc, because he pretended to be “Anti-Communist”.
"Now go do....that voodoo.....that you do.....so well!"
Better make it a tall wall.
But poor women are particularly at risk for harm by contraception:
Fortunately there is one such method available:modern fertility-awareness methods (NFP).
Doesn't need hormonal injections/implants, will not boost the prevalence of strokes and hormone-sensitive cancers, enhances spousal communication and cooperation.
Doesn't even require calendars and BBT thermometers. The simplest methods have been used by hundreds of thousands of women in Haiti-like conditions.
Fertility choices without contraception. That's the preferred family plkanning method in developing copuntries (LINK)
Well, one anyway. And yet when the state of South Carolina issued their formal declaration of their reasons for secession slave, slaves or slavery is mentioned 18 times; tax is mentioned once, and tariffs not at all. I guess they discarded that crank Rhett's opinions as not being accurate?
“But the US loved Papa Doc, because he pretended to be “Anti-Communist”.”
Well, given that the commies would have deposed and killed him, I suspect that he was anti-Communist.
In other words, many of the Northern states were attempting to change the constitution without going through the actual amendment process.
NFP (Natural Family Planning), which consists of not having sex during the woman's most fertile period, is most suited for couples where both partners can exercise self-discipline and engage in long-term planning. Does that characterize the majority of the population of Haiti?
Their focus is on slavery, one could say they were obsessed with it, and potential impacts to that.
And as a side note, your man Rhett was threatening secession in 1856 if Fremont had won. And the primary benefit, as Rhett saw it, had nothing to do with taxes and everything to do with a resumption in the slave trade. Secession would, as Rhett saw it, "make Territories, now free, slave Territories, and to acquire new territory into which to extend slavery – such as Cuba, North Eastern Mexico, &c – but we would re-open the African slave trade that every white man might have a chance to make himself owner of one or more negroes, and go with them and his household goods wherever opportunity beckoned enterprise.”
People are obsessed with their cash cow. Philosophers have long noted that people's opposition to or favoring of something depends on who's ox is getting gored.
but we would re-open the African slave trade that every white man might have a chance to make himself owner of one or more negroes, and go with them and his household goods wherever opportunity beckoned enterprise.”
Rhett has seemingly swallowed the whole "slavery is moral" thing hook line and sinker. A lot of people in the South at that time did. They were wrong, but such was the culture in which they emerged.
It doesn't make his economic arguments invalid though.
I believe that the name which practitioners of NFP in Haiti will be called is "Parents."
I very much doubt that Haitians can exhibit self control when it comes to sex. The fact that there are nine million of them on that tiny Island argues against it.
Which in the South was slavery.
Rhett has seemingly swallowed the whole "slavery is moral" thing hook line and sinker. A lot of people in the South at that time did. They were wrong, but such was the culture in which they emerged.
Wrong by our standards now, and wrong by the standards of some at the time. But it's an indication of just how far Rhett and the vast majority of Southerners of the period would go to protect their institution from political interference from others.
It doesn't make his economic arguments invalid though.
Mildly suspect, given his history. But again, he mentions taxes 23 times and slaves/slavery/slaveholding 31 times, including in the title. His issue with taxation was obviously secondary to his concerns for slavery.
Really? Wow! I had no idea. :)
Wrong by our standards now, and wrong by the standards of some at the time. But it's an indication of just how far Rhett and the vast majority of Southerners of the period would go to protect their institution from political interference from others.
I have lived long enough to realize many people see just what they want to see. I've also noticed that if something benefits some particular group, they tend to see it as right and proper, and it's not a matter of them lying to themselves. They actually come to believe that the thing benefiting them is just and proper.
Cognitive dissonance is apparently a quite common human trait. Note how Jews support the political party that most often advocates anti-semitism. Note how homosexuals support liberal policies that will eventually result in Muslims cutting off their heads.
People believe those things that they perceive as in their best interest, and they believe them fully. They don't allow the slightest hint of doubt to creep into their self-righteousness.
Such were the unapologetic slave owners on the 19th century South. To believe they were immoral people was simply unthinkable to them.
Similarly, higher motivation is associated with consistent compliance for the contraceptive methods (rubbers, foams). Without conscientious use, all of these methods fail.
At the extreme end, if a woman is so powerless in the relationship that she can't get her husband to delay intercourse for a couple of days, she doesn't have the negotiating power to insist on a condom, either. Experience shows that NFP tends to increase women's sexual authority and the respect she gets from her husband. It builds their sense of shared responsibility in their relationship.
Contraceptives do the opposite. They obliterate mutuality. They erase the man's sense of responsibility.
Plus, if the couple lack the mutual cooperation, self-discipline, and long-term planning to even want (let alone achieve) control over their fertility, then all that’s left is essentially a veterinary approach: coercive spaying/neutering or the equivalent.
This erases the central point, which is that we’re going for *human* well-being. If we see the very poor as both useless and feckless Untermenschen, Sanger and Hitler had the correct approach: segregate and sterilize. But I believe neither you nor I would go there. I think we’re both aiming at human dignity and well-being, not the Final Solution.
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