“Haitians committed the greatest sin possible in the modern world: We took our freedom back from the white man. Haiti is the birthplace of the only successful slave-led revolt in the ‘New’ or ‘Western’ world.
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This may sound like 200-year-old history, but what a lot of Americans don’t get is that … Haiti’s economic and political instability are largely the consequence of American policy toward the island.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/racist-cat-attacks-against-haitian-immigrants/