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1. Just total racism. No wonder Haiti is in such bad shape.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2022, 06:24 PM

May 2022

And the US occupation and subsequent financial control was on top of Haiti being required by the international community to pay France back millions for having the temerity to overthrow their imperial rule in 1791. The "debt" wasn't paid off until 1947. Think of all the good that money could've done generations of poor Haitians

Such hypocrisy. Imagine if the international community had required the US to pay the UK back for overthrowing the rule of King George and Great Britain, and enforced it with the threat of military power.

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Invade Haiti, Wall Street Urged.The U.S. Obliged. [View all] Judi Lynn May 2022 OP

Just total racism. No wonder Haiti is in such bad shape. brush May 2022 #1

Excellent point. It has always seemed that the only righteous revolution happened here. Judi Lynn May 2022 #2

Hundreds of years after Haiti paid to be free from slavery the costs are still being felt Judi Lynn May 2022 #3

More on the occupation of Haiti by the U.S. which I never knew, from the article: Judi Lynn May 2022 #4