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.
I’ve come to expect better from you, Strategerist, than to be defending that post.
I also don’t deny that Haiti is in terrible shape.
But I do take issue with an earlier poster saying NOTHING GOOD has ever come out of Haiti. Kind of broad isn’t it? There are good people in Haiti.
As I said in my earlier post, I did mission work there and I met some amazing people in churches there. People who lived on a cup of rice a day were offering us their food. The love these Christians showed to others was tangible and unmatched by anything I have seen since. Perhaps because it has to be, because on the opposite extreme, right outside their doors, the voodooists were as active and evil as you could imagine.
One of my husband’s managers is a son of Haitian immigrants (yes, LEGAL). His dad is currently in Haiti. He just called hubby and asked for prayers.
The people in Haiti have lived under a corrupt and self serving dictatorship for generations. I guess I don’t understand why that would make them worthy of being “flushed down the toilet”? God in Heaven have mercy on us all.
If you read about the history of Haiti since its independence 200 some odd years ago, you have to shake your head in disbelief. For example, most rulers were either poisoned, dismembered, met some other untimely demise, or had to run for their lives to countries like Jamaica.
Haiti has no one to blame but itself for the shape that it's in.