Will America's elite continue flushing tax dollars down the drain in Haiti? Afra
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In the 1700's what is now Haiti was called the “Jewel of the Caribbean,†and supplied about 40% of the world's sugar.
In 1791 the government of France passed legislation to phase out slavery in its Caribbean colonies and grant the former Negro slaves citizenship. Rather than becoming citizens, Haiti's Negro population mass murdered all whites and Mulattoes who could not flee the Island in time.
In 1804 only full blooded Negroes remained. The Haitian revolution dominated America's debate over slavery. While both the north and the south agreed that slavery should be ended, southerners and a large percentage of northerners universally opposed having a large population of freed slaves living in their midst. The Haitian “Revolution†was fresh in every one's mind.
Flash forward to 1915. The “Jewel of the Caribbean†is now a desolate cesspool, that is exporting almost no sugar. The United States decides to “take up the white man's burden†and send the US Marine Corps to rebuild Haiti's infrastructure and feed it's starving population.
The United States gave huge amounts of money to Haiti and over-saw the building of 1,000 miles of road, telephone lines, modernized its port, and helped Haiti to start exporting sugar once again. The US also put an end to the thousands of bandits along Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic. The US left in 1934 at the request of the then stabilized and very ungrateful Haitian government.
Haiti immediately sank straight back into total desolation strife. In 1973 the United State once again began playing a huge role in Haiti, giving the Island huge sums of money in handouts each year.
In 1994 the Clinton administration once again sent the US military to Haiti to rebuild the Island's infrastructure.
In 1995 the Peace Corps went to Haiti in large numbers to train the Haitians in job skills. The US government spent almost one Billion providing food and job training to the Haitians between '95 and '99.
So when Obama says that Haiti has our “full, unwavering, support,†they have already had our full support since 1915.
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And drew my eyes away ;
I looked upon the rotting deck,
And there the dead men lay.
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But or ever a prayer had gusht,
A wicked whisper came, and made
My heart as dry as dust.
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And the balls like pulses beat ;
For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky
Lay like a load on my weary eye,
And the dead were at my feet.
But the curse liveth for him in the eye of the dead men.
The cold sweat melted from their limbs,
Nor rot nor reek did they :
The look with which they looked on me
Had never passed away.
An orphan's curse would drag to hell
A spirit from on high ;
But oh ! more horrible than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye !
Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,
And yet I could not die.
In his loneliness and fixedness he
I saw the headline the other day "Haitian Boy Freed After 10 Days", and I thought "those morons, did it really take them that long to figure out he didn't do it?"
But seriously, Haiti is tragic and I even gave a little money to Doctors Without Borders, but there is no way they are ever going to be a functioning society and it is a fool's errand to try and make them so.
And now, on topic, does this mean a lot of Haitian women will start stripping?