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To: Bon mots

You blame the poor people of Haiti for the corruption of their government and the exploitation of their land, in racist terms.


146 posted on 01/12/2010 4:26:26 PM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Petronski

Everything in the post, as others have pointed out, is essentially factually correct.

The question is WHY is Haiti (or any other horrifically bad off country) a disaster?

Obviously the people of those countries have some degree of responsibility; the idea that everything can be blamed on outside factors such as colonialism and capitalism, has not been helpful to those countries.

But the fact that Haiti’s population was overwhelmingly comprised of people forcibly taken from a variety of locations in Africa and dumped there certainly has to have been a factor to some degree.


152 posted on 01/12/2010 4:38:07 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Petronski
You blame the poor people of Haiti for the corruption of their government and the exploitation of their land, in racist terms.

My post did not once mention race.

In fact, I pointed out the admirable and astounding success of Singapore - a multiracial society made up of mostly ethnic Chinese and Indians with a smattering of Europeans. I am neither Indian nor Chinese but can only look with admiration at the wonderful society the good people of Singapore have created.

Haitians have had 200 years of Independence to build some kind of society and economy. They have consistently failed monumentally - No mean feat in the hemisphere of riches that surrounds them.

279 posted on 01/13/2010 12:46:21 AM PST by Bon mots
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