Haiti's Black Democracy's forced impoverishment is as far from an accident as possible.
You probably also have been taught "reparations are unrealistic/undoable."
No again. In 1825 an alliance of slaveholding powers forced the citizens of Haiti into ***providing reparations to their prior "owners"*** - ***a& to their descendants*** - in what UVa scholar Marlene Daught has termed "the greatest heist in history."
Renowned French economist Thomas Piketty estimates France owes Haiti BILLIONS.
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