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To: Strategerist
I would like to mention that Haiti has a caste system based on who has the lightest skin tone. The lighter skin color you have, the more privileges come your way (you get to live in the "hills" instead of down in the grime and muck, for example). Haiti has even had civil wars based on skin tone. The "mulattos" on one side, and the "dark-skinned" on the other.

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.

159 posted on 01/12/2010 4:58:13 PM PST by PallMal
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To: PallMal

How about we park the crap....and remember thousands are dead there.


162 posted on 01/12/2010 5:03:00 PM PST by Dog
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To: PallMal

This was a city built to house 50,000...that has 2 MILLION souls living there and a very shallow quake just struck right in the middle of that city. This is going to be worse than any disaster the world has ever seen.

169 posted on 01/12/2010 5:10:57 PM PST by Dog
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