Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agoGOP congressman rips Haitian immigrants, warns them to get 'out of our country'www.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1274arrow-down15
arrow-up1269arrow-down1external-linkGOP congressman rips Haitian immigrants, warns them to get 'out of our country'www.nbcnews.comRapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squareNABDad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·3 days agoWe also blew our chance to support Haiti back when they first revolted because we didn’t want our slaves to get any ideas. As always, American Ideals are based on a lie. Haiti was punished by the West for daring to fight against their oppressors, and we all, collectively, never stopped trying to crush them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_independence_debt Now they have the failed state which the West absolutely caused, and scum in this country blame them for the situation they were put in.
minus-squareRapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-23 days agoI think it’s great you blame the US when it was a French colony and the only Caribbean country that had to buy their way out of slavery.
minus-squareNABDad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down5·3 days agoThanks! I’m glad you agree!
minus-squareSaltySalamander@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoSurely you’re not really this obtuse?
minus-squareNABDad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-21 day agoNo more than Rapidcreek pretending “The West” doesn’t include France.
We also blew our chance to support Haiti back when they first revolted because we didn’t want our slaves to get any ideas.
As always, American Ideals are based on a lie.
Haiti was punished by the West for daring to fight against their oppressors, and we all, collectively, never stopped trying to crush them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_independence_debt
Now they have the failed state which the West absolutely caused, and scum in this country blame them for the situation they were put in.
I think it’s great you blame the US when it was a French colony and the only Caribbean country that had to buy their way out of slavery.
Thanks! I’m glad you agree!
Surely you’re not really this obtuse?
No more than Rapidcreek pretending “The West” doesn’t include France.