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angelindiskies:

Don’t ever command me to, or demand of me to, forget about slavery. Don’t tell me it happened years ago and those people are dead now. Don’t tell me to get over it! This centuries old grudge that they have had against the nation of my People… My mother tried to explain this to me decades ago and I wasn’t sure what to think because of my US of A schooling.

They (Europe) could not get over the fact that these slaves freed themselves. Their revolution inspired enslaved people in other nations to revolt. Haiti opened its ports to freed people seeking asylum… White supremacist European leaders hated Haiti for this… America didn’t even recognized Haiti as a free nation until Lincoln (over 60 years later). The  so called protector of the Western hemisphere [America], turned its back while France continued to threaten Haiti with invasion and enslavement. America and Europe would not trade with Haiti. They allowed France to extort ~22 billion dollars from this tiny nation.

People want us to forget slavery and yet these countries’ couldn’t let go of this grudge;

Let this country be free…. They had everyone believe that our religion, that is older than Christianity, was something evil…. That we were a backwards nation of people (black) that should be feared…. They had everyone believe, for a good amount time, that HIV/AIDS came from Haiti… They punished Haiti and continue to punish Haiti for truly being a land of the free and a home of the brave.

Let my people go!

Today, I have never been more proud to be the child of Haitian parents.

‪#‎beingHaitian‬

Forget? This is happening in my lifetime

Christian Ledan

I will reblog this often

Hey, @realDonaldTrump, I posted this a while ago… here’s a history lesson on why #Haiti suffers so much.  

What is #Trump doing? Anyone…anyone…anyone?

“The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled, closing at 21,414.


General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $8o billion bailout to save the car industry. The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest.


While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11.


Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.


He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.


He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans.


He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth.


Due to Obama’s regulatory policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half.


He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay.


His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers.


He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.


For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26.


Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.


All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do.


While Obama failed on his campaign pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that prison’s population decreased from 242 to around 50.


He expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research, supporting groundbreaking advancement in areas like spinal injury treatment and cancer.


Credit card companies can no longer charge hidden fees or raise interest rates without advance notice.


Most years, Obama threw a 4th of July party for military families. He held babies, played games with children, served barbecue, and led the singing of “Happy Birthday” to his daughter Malia, who was born on July 4.


Welfare spending is down: for every 100 poor families, just 24 receive cash assistance, compared with 64 in 1996.


Obama comforted families and communities following more than a dozen mass shootings. After Sandy Hook, he said, “The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old.”


Yet, he never took away anyone’s guns.


He sang Amazing Grace, spontaneously, at the altar.


He was the first president since Eisenhower to serve two terms without personal or political scandal.


He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.


President Obama was not perfect, as no man and no president is, and you can certainly disagree with his political ideologies. But to say we suffered?”


Want more? The COMPLETE list of accomplishments? Then read this:


https://www.facebook.com/DJTNotMyPresident/posts/1959335521002822



still waiting for a Trump supporter to tell me exactly what the D is doing… Be specific

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