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Its about Haiti.
Nokukhohlakala kwe France..
Its about Haiti.
Nokukhohlakala kwe France..
Enslaved Africans were transported to the west side of the island of Hispanola. The cash cow was sugar cane. Harvesting sugar cane is dangerous work. Chopping the cane with machetes, many of our ancestors were dismembered, often fatally.
Black people got sick of that sh!t and decided they were about that life.
Lead by Toussaint Lourveture, and later Jean-Jacques Dessalines, they retreated to the mountains and got in touch with the spirits of their ancestors (no need your theological debates. It worked for them.)
Lead by Toussaint Lourveture, and later Jean-Jacques Dessalines, they retreated to the mountains and got in touch with the spirits of their ancestors (no need your theological debates. It worked for them.)
They then got sh!t popping for 13 years, leaving a trail of bodies and sending the French running. In 1804, they become the first free nation of Black/Afro people in the West.
They named the Island Haiti, as a tribute to the original Taino name of the island.
They named the Island Haiti, as a tribute to the original Taino name of the island.
In 1825, France, being the punk b!tches they were and remain, sent warships with more than 500 cannons to Haiti with a demand for a payment of 150 million gold francs (reduced to 90 million) to compensate French slaveholders who had submitted statements of their...
...losses from losing human chattel
, for pushing their sh!t in and liberating the enslaved.
Haiti, still trying to get on its feet, realized it was between a rock and a hard place, and agreed to pay the illegal demand.
, for pushing their sh!t in and liberating the enslaved.Haiti, still trying to get on its feet, realized it was between a rock and a hard place, and agreed to pay the illegal demand.
The West ignored France's immoral and illegal bullsh!t coz that's how white supremacy does sh!t, and they were too busy looting Africa.
The payment is financed through a French bank. It's is 10x Haiti's annual revenue at the time. Haiti is virtually bankrupted by these payments
The payment is financed through a French bank. It's is 10x Haiti's annual revenue at the time. Haiti is virtually bankrupted by these payments
Fast forward to 2003. Haitian President Jean Bertand Aristide is like, "Hold up: These Frenchie b!tches sitting over there eating crepes and cheese, erecting unstable monuments and buying berets with our coins. Nah." So he sends France a letter..
Saying, "Look, b!tch, we want our money. And it's now the equivalent of 21 billion. Stop playing with me. Oui oui!"
France scoffs at it because white supremacy and the delusion/illusion that yt people earned whatever they have instead of stealing, lying and murdering for it..
France scoffs at it because white supremacy and the delusion/illusion that yt people earned whatever they have instead of stealing, lying and murdering for it..
The next year, Aristide is ousted in a "coup" 
Now use the Google to fill in the rest of the story and understand why Haiti was intentionally bankrupted, exploited and punished.
Now use the Google to fill in the rest of the story and understand why Haiti was intentionally bankrupted, exploited and punished.
And let's stop falling for the bullsh!t that poor Black nations are so because of anything but the three Cs:
colonialism, capitalism and cowardice.
Our leaders are also complicit and they are cowards.
~KK
colonialism, capitalism and cowardice.
Our leaders are also complicit and they are cowards.
~KK
