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Easterncedar

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3. Reparations need to be paid; how is the question

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Jan 3, 2024, 02:02 PM

Jan 2024

The obscene cruelty of making the Haitians buy their freedom from France and their subsequent exploitation by financial institutions have tormented and crippled the people the US should have celebrated and supported. We should be trying to help them rebuild a lawful government. We aren’t good at that.

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Haiti is owed reparations for the Independence Debt, not another intervention Opinion [View all] Judi Lynn Jan 2024 OP

Yes. No doubt. No quibbling questions. France should give the money back. cbabe Jan 2024 #1

I have read and studied Haiti a fair amount, in my opinion nothing will ever help at this point. thatdemguy Jan 2024 #2

Reparations need to be paid; how is the question Easterncedar Jan 2024 #3