This is how ignorant you have to be to call Haiti a ‘shithole’

The president had no respect for Haiti. He could see as well as anyone following the news that the country was a basket case — racked by political unrest, filthy, incapable of handling its own affairs. There was no doubt his opinion of the black republic was informed by his blatant racism, which included praising members of the Ku Klux Klan. He had criticized his predecessors’ foreign wars while running for office. But in the White House, he realized he was willing to flex the country’s muscles abroad, as long as the mission fit his motto: “America first.”
http://wapo.st/2D7wd4O

excellent find, Chair, know most of that history !
As a matter of fact I had a thread here demanding France sekkle up !
when i was talking reparations for the enslaved!

[i]The United States would invade.That president was Woodrow Wilson. The year was 1915.[/i]

France is a shithole compliments of Charles

King Charles X demanded the Haitian government pay restitution of 150 million gold francs
— billions of dollars in today’s money — to French landowners still angry about the loss of their land
and the Haitians’ own bodies in the war.
If they didn’t pay, he would invade....

https://kottke.org/18/01/how-haiti-became-poor

You’d have to NOT know that Haiti got recognition by agreeing to pay 150 million gold franc
to French landowners in compensation for their own freedom.
You’d have to not know that Haiti paid it
and that it took them almost all of the 19th century to do so.

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