There is a time and place for everything. I strongly suspect that most people making negative comments probably don’t know any Haitians, have Haitian friends and/or family,etc. I’m not focusing on politics, just focusing on suffering humanity like the Church.
It’s not politics, it’s history. It happened. Potentially with no historical repurcussions as Haiti could have developed into an awful place regardless of European influences. Who knows?
I saw some crushing, horrible poverty in Iraq, and I met some very nice people there, but the country is a dungheap, and no amount of compassion will change that. It’s just a fact.