Comments on: Why does the U.S. owe Haiti Billions?

By: fearthefuture

fearthefuture — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:18:21 +0000

someone has to get screwed, that is the way of capitalism.
If Haiti’s farm land wasn’t owned by sugar companies, Haiti might be able to pull itself up

but since their politicians are just as crooked as everyone elses’ politicians i don’t think it will happen

By: Khalsa

Khalsa — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:13:59 +0000

I think that for a country to be taken seriously it has to find ways of settling its own debt. Only beggars plead for aid or debt relief. If u look at post-WW1 Europe, many countries has huge debts, but this was managed strategically on both an economic and political level……Anglo-saxon countries supported each other and strategic allies. Haiti needs to find a solution that does not involve begging.

By: common sense

common sense — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:47:58 +0000

“These are the rules of the world”… maybe YOUR world. These are the rules created by dictatorial U.S. led western society over other non-European countries is a more accurate statement. Just because they made these rules does not make them right… and it does not mean that we should just lay down and accept them.

“The U.S. is the leader in giving to 3rd World countries”

WHY they are still “3rd world Countries” in the first place? Had it not been for western colonization, the rape of the resources, the enslavement and exploitation of their people, and land by the west… these countries would be thriving. If these countries thrived there would be no need for the U.S. to intervene and thus gain access to those resources and land masses… which would be ultimately bad for the U.S. Capitalistic Economic Hierarchy.

This is the typical problem in white America… the inability to own up to the issues western society has created for non-European countries. If the U.S. gives to any non-European country, there is always something in it for the U.S. You whine and complain about aid to Haiti… a country completely raped by the U.S… but you are awkwardly silent on the billions that go to Israel with no strings attached every year.

So yeah… the U.S. may be the leader in giving to 3rd world countries… but that is usually after they have raped, pillaged, and worked to destabilize those 3rd world countries.

By: Jah Rateng Skabelli

Jah Rateng Skabelli — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:49:03 +0000

Wesley Baker your logic is fuzzy making you mix issues:

a) your (relative) poverty as a white man does not mean that the west does not owe HAITI (and indeed AFRICA/Ns )TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

b) The fact is that Africa is poor because the west is rich from slavery/colonialism & post colonialism/globalization.

c) Your relative poverty is due to the logical culmination (in time) of the western-led socio-techno-political-economic model: The rich get richer but the poorest remain (coincidentally?) the darker races. This is blatantly obvious to any observer.Of course Afrikan & Haitian rulers have had a hand in this but as mere tools/puppets/lackeys.

You only gripe like this because you are at the bottom (as whites go) in this modern feudal system but it is rich (no pun) to imagine that Haitians for example are just “born poor” . All you need to do is a little research on Haiti’s history to cure your propensity for trite remarks…

I don’t expect you to see the bigger picture though. You are after all social debris to this system that can make you so callous in attitude even as you wallow in your own misery.

By: Anias07

Anias07 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:37:15 +0000

I just saw a news report this morning here in Queens, NY. The Haitian Prime Minister is seeking administrative investigations on all the Child Adopiton and Foster Care Agencys trafficking supposed orphan Haitian Children. The Prime Minister of Haiti has been receiving alarming reports that the Haitian Children are being taken against their will and they are not orphans they still do have family members. Child abduction is another form of salvery the chaos Haiti has been has covering this up for years. I feel at this point in Haiti’s turmoil that these crimes will be exposed to the world over to witness how Governments,and Religious organizations have always failed people of color in Haiti.

By: Wesley Baker

Wesley Baker — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:38:23 +0000

These are the rules of the road (by that I mean the world). I am a white 29 year old male, and I earn about $28,000 a year. So you will take food from my mouth and put it in someone elses! I am not to sure of that! But what I would like to see is a change in policy, and maybe if countries want help we will help. I am tired of hearing someone owes me this and that. If you want it go out and earn it just like all the multi races in the U.S. Life is not fare for me or anyone else that lives it. Some people are born into wealth and some are born into poverty, but we all make decisions on our own and we are acountable for each one of them. By the way the U.S. is the leader in giving to 3rd world countries.

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:42:21 +0000

My heart goes out to the people of Haiti. I feel that much of the problems there, past and present are man-made. Beginning with slavery and France’s occupation on an earthly
unstable island to begin with. What comes to mind when I think of Haiti is an old
warrior that time has bought on several life threatening ailments but he is still trying to survive. He just will not give up. I like what the president of Senegal offered.
Although, I believe that the majority of Senegal is muslim ,some christianity, some judiasm as long as one obeys the laws in their new land adaptation could go well.
At least one thing you would not have to worry about earthquakes and money donated
could be sent there. God Bless!

By: Jahrateng Skabelli

Jahrateng Skabelli — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:32:01 +0000

Its just astonishing how hypocritical the western media is!

True-there is an outpouring of compassion from many ordinary westerners. What no one wants to discuss is this ELEPHANT CALLED REPARATIONS that is in the room as far as our Haitian brethren and sistren are concerned.

What a symbol of consequences Haiti has been. Consequences of Black People resisting slavery in a neighbourhood thick and rancid with it!

Like clock work, soon there will be much talk on how Black people cant just keep it together….

The truth will NEVER EVAPORATE.

May God Bless Haiti