An otherwise interesting view but I donąt get the gist of this last
paragraph -
Poor Haiti! Earthquakes did not make Haiti poor. Imperialism did not make it
poor. The devil did it - the devil of revolution. Now is as good a time as
any for the nations that had revolutions of the opposite kind - revolutions
without reverse racism, revolutions that respected the rule of law - to help
Haiti out of its predicament. It is not Haiti's fault that it had to fight
Napoleon, and we had only to fight George III.
So revolutions with direct racism (slavery) are somehow better. & the
ignorance of history is just astounding. Good ol GW instituted ŚPrivateersą
(pirates) [see łPatriot Pirates˛] to finance the revolution which when
accomplished turned to shipping slaves from Africa to the US and elsewhere.
ŚRule of lawą? What BS.
BTW our first millionaire was one of the financiers of these ŚPatriotsą.
--
Jim Hicks
Quality Restoration Works, LLC
917-575-8545
> From: "Becker, Dan" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:23:48 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [BP] MORE ON HAITI
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: JIM HICKS
>> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:07 PM
>
>> The last couple of paragraphs of an excellent op ed article
>> in today's NYT;
>
> And an op-ed article from a Duke associate professor of history in today's
> _The News & Observer_ that has an interesting perspective I've not seen on the
> roots of world enmity toward Haiti for the last two centuries:
>
> <http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/columnists_blogs/other_views/story/297426
> .html>
>
> "Haiti: The root of misfortune
>
> "BY FRED S. NAIDEN
>
> "CHAPEL HILL -- The evangelist Pat Robertson's remark that Haiti bargained
> with the devil and got an earthquake has met with indignation. Yet Robertson
> is right. Haiti did bargain with the devil, but not Robertson's devil. Two
> hundred years ago, Haiti bargained with the devil of revolution. This bargain
> was not Haiti's fault. The country had no choice. It has suffered the
> consequences since.
>
> "Little known to Americans, the Haitian revolution of the 1790s was one of the
> most important events of the 18th century. Decades or centuries ahead of other
> countries in the Third World, Haiti won not just independence, but also
> long-term freedom from foreign intervention. Rarer still, it won economic
> autonomy and cultural self-determination. Colonialism, slavery, the plantation
> system - the Haitian revolution put an end to all of it. The revolution was a
> success, and that is how politically correct history books, not just in Haiti
> but elsewhere, portray this event.
>
> "This portrayal obscures the tragedy of Haiti's choice. Once Haiti declared
> independence, and became the world's first black republic, the United States
> refused to recognize it, and France - albeit unsuccessfully - challenged it,
> invading Haiti with an army sent by Napoleon. The price of Haiti's victory was
> military despotism over the Haitian people. To secure the country's autonomy,
> Haiti forbade whites from owning property. To secure self-determination, it
> banished the Catholic Church...."
>
> Talk about upsetting two important institutions in the world. It gets more
> interesting.
>
> Dan
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