"We want independence!"
Ok have independence
Five years later
"We completely fucked everything up and everyone is starving now. We demand reparations!"
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^^^ Your brain on white supremacy
After France was expelled from Haiti, they forced Haiti to pay for the lost land and slaves for 122 years.
It's no wonder that nations which have had their natural resources and people exploited for hundreds of years, have had their culture and native intitutions marginalized if not exterminated, have had families decimated by slavery and political repression, and continue to be exploited even after nominal independence struggle to succeed. Of course they are owed reparations. They deserve comprehensive support, a Marshall Plan for independence. You break it, you fix it.
Yeah Haiti was a gigantic fuckup, true
We're not talking about Haiti here though
We're talking about French colonialism
Middle schoolers' understanding of history spotted.
You should get educated on the issue instead of spouting cherry picked facts to drive this brain dead narrative.
Most of this clown shit is easily debunk with a sjiti online search engine query.
Cheers champ :)
Good. It's outrageous that Europe and the US continue to hang on to their colonies and then feign moral outrage when Russia or China tries to exploit their neighbors.
France claims 13 overseas territories and the UK claims 14 overseas territories. France continues to exploit the its former African colonies.
You may have noticed that Haiti is a shambles these days. Well part of the reason is that after Haiti won it's independance, France demanded reparations. That's right, the colonizer demanded reparations from the nation of slaves who won their freedom. And for 122 years, until 1947, Haiti was saddled with this debt.
France also runs francophone Africa's moneterary system, which requires African countries to hold their reserved with the French central bank with no interest payments.
Yes, that's covered in the Jacobin article I linked to.
Most people don't click articles due extensive online tracking. Just doing a plug to expand scope of the discussion.
Good call
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