Today i woke up feeling especially conscious and thinking about the state of black people globally. 
I was thinking about all the imf and world bank loans that have mired the carribean, Africa , and black south america and i had an epiphany that all of this debt mirrors the state that that france put Haiti in way back in the 1800s.
To the best of my knowldge their country could not develop because so much of their productivity was being sapped by the silly liberation loan to France. This is eerily familiar to the state of places like nigeria or Kenya which today cannot use the revenues of their people to build their own airports or roads because 50% of govt revenue immediatly goes to servicing european debt or Kenya paying 70% of revenues. you simply cant runa funcitoning country like this
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So my ephiany is that this was exactly the same mess Haiti was in 1806 paying 40-80% of if its productivity for the privlege of being free. i get the feeling that this current leash on black nations was first test driven on Haiti. But how different would the world be if Haiti simply said no? Wouldnt that have stopped the precedent before the same chains of Haiti were exported to the rest of the black world?
Boyer assumed that the battle could not be won but years later we've seen that with Vietnamese or Afghanis , such a thing is doable. And more importantly im starting to think that this would have set a precident that such a tacticic would not work on other black people throughought the world. by precident im thinking of how the beligerent and often suicidal fighting of natives from the bight of Benin saved their whole region from the slave trade because cacs realized the fight was not worth it in that part of Africa. but im picturing something similar with the debt diplomacy to Europe and America.
What do yall think? would haiti have been better if they fought to the death? Would the rest of the black world have benefited from such a struggle?
I was thinking about all the imf and world bank loans that have mired the carribean, Africa , and black south america and i had an epiphany that all of this debt mirrors the state that that france put Haiti in way back in the 1800s.
To the best of my knowldge their country could not develop because so much of their productivity was being sapped by the silly liberation loan to France. This is eerily familiar to the state of places like nigeria or Kenya which today cannot use the revenues of their people to build their own airports or roads because 50% of govt revenue immediatly goes to servicing european debt or Kenya paying 70% of revenues. you simply cant runa funcitoning country like this
When Fiscal Policy Misses the Mark: Kenya’s Balancing Act In recent years - IEA Kenya
Kenya’s economic story has been one of ambition—the ambition to grow, modernize, and invest in the future. From expansive highways and modern railways to cutting-edge digital infrastructure and wide-reaching social programs, the government has directed public funds toward bold, highly visible...
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Nigeria now spends half its revenue on debt-Presidential panel
The Chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Mr Taiwo Oyedele, disclosed that the country currently spends less than 50 per
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So my ephiany is that this was exactly the same mess Haiti was in 1806 paying 40-80% of if its productivity for the privlege of being free. i get the feeling that this current leash on black nations was first test driven on Haiti. But how different would the world be if Haiti simply said no? Wouldnt that have stopped the precedent before the same chains of Haiti were exported to the rest of the black world?
Boyer assumed that the battle could not be won but years later we've seen that with Vietnamese or Afghanis , such a thing is doable. And more importantly im starting to think that this would have set a precident that such a tacticic would not work on other black people throughought the world. by precident im thinking of how the beligerent and often suicidal fighting of natives from the bight of Benin saved their whole region from the slave trade because cacs realized the fight was not worth it in that part of Africa. but im picturing something similar with the debt diplomacy to Europe and America.
What do yall think? would haiti have been better if they fought to the death? Would the rest of the black world have benefited from such a struggle?
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