“With the United States the issue of Haitian independence was affected above all by slavery. Anxious to include the United States in the Pan-American Congress of 1826, where the issue of Haitian recognition by the mainland American republics was on the agenda,

Simón Bolívar did not invite Haiti to participate despite the generous support he had received on more than one occasion from [Haitian President Alexandre] Pétion a decade earlier.

This sensitivity to US concerns on the part of Bolívar turned out to be completely wasted as the US delegation arrived too late to participate, having spent too long arguing over what position to take.”

Some of y'all choose anti-Blackness over your own freedom.