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An amazing article that should be required reading apart from this one is this : https://nyti.ms/3G3zNKB (Part of the same series on Haiti, and truly shows the scope of the rot).

TL;DR - France and french banks forced haiti to pay reparations for having earned their freedoms for so long that 2.53 out of every 3 dollars they made for centuries went to “white people”. This led to a loss of 25 billion dollars conservatively or 200 billion if you’re being real.

The US just took over as the next colonial power. They even helped get rid of the only President in decades to have brought this whole thing up as an issue again.




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