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The Black Hole of the Caribbean

Welcome to Haiti.

Wherever they go, they will make Haiti.

by David Sims

IT DOESN’T TAKE an earthquake. Not where Haiti is concerned. It has had billions of dollars’ worth of aid from America, from Canada, and from Europe in foreign aid over the years. America rebuilt Haiti’s entire economy and national infrastructure three times during the 20th century, but each time the improvements were destroyed not long after the US Marines had gone back home.

In the 18th century, Haiti, then called San Domingue and ruled by the French, was the most prosperous colony in the New World. Its fertile soil produced an abundance of crops and drew thousands of French settlers. African slaves were imported to help with the work. So rich was its soil that San Domingue’s agricultural product exceeded, for a time, that of all thirteen of the original English-American colonies combined. In the late 1700s, as an outgrowth of the French Revolution, the slaves in Haiti were incited to revolt, and they did — murdering every French man, woman and child. They took over government, changed the name of the country, and declared themselves a republic. What had been the richest colony in the New World quickly sank into poverty. The roads and cities built by the French fell into ruin. The “republic” of Haiti was governed by a mixture of violent anarchy and bloody despotism, which took the place of French law and order.

In 1915, after an especially chaotic period, US Marines were sent into Haiti to halt domestic unrest. They were in Haiti for 19 years, during which time they not only enforced governmental stability, but they also built schools and hospitals, and more than 1,000 miles of paved roads with 210 bridges. (The Haitians did not build these things themselves.) The US government trained Haitian teachers and doctors at the expense of US taxpayers. America gave the Haitians a chance for a fresh start. But as soon as the US Marines pulled out in 1934, Haiti sank again, like a rock that had been brought briefly to the surface of the water and then let go. Everything the Americans had built for them was scavenged to pieces, destroyed by arson or by vandalism, or allowed to rot through neglect: wasn’t fixed, wasn’t rebuilt, until only ruins were left.

The same thing happened again in 1958. The US Marines went in and rebuilt Haiti’s infrastructure and got its economy going again, at a cost to US taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars. They rebuilt the roads and the bridges, the schools and the hospitals, plus some electric power plants and a modern telephone system. When the Marines left, Haiti once again fell apart due to internal corruption, domestic unrest, and native indolence. And it happened again in 1994. The same foolishness. The same result.

A recent news editorial put Haiti’s problems, incompletely, like this: “…though the Haitians and the UN are officially in charge of this crisis, a new reality has dawned: Only a full-scale army can lift Haiti off its knees.” Buddy, that reality has dawned already several times in the past, but no matter how many times Americans get taught “The Lesson of Haiti,” they quickly forget — and so repeat the mistakes of history. Anyone who has done his homework knows that Haiti will collapse once again into poverty and oscillating anarcho-despotism just as soon as the occupying army that helped them for a while leaves the country.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas, with a national income of about $2 per person per day. A historical study of comparative social and economic indicators shows that Haiti consistently fails to develop by even so much as other poor countries do. Foreign aid constitutes about 40% of Haiti’s national budget. The largest donor countries are the United States, Canada, and the European Union. In September 2009, Haiti met the conditions set out by the IMF and World Bank’s Heavily Indebted Poor Countries program, qualifying it for cancellation of its external debt. Since the earthquake of January 2010, the IMF has agreed to loan Haiti more hundreds of millions of dollars, which will also vanish down that black hole and accomplish nothing important, and which will likewise never be repaid, and so all the rest of the world’s credit users will be required to pay higher interest rates.

There is apparently no limit to how much wealth Haiti can cause to disappear.

In 1925, Haiti was a heavily forested country, with trees and vegetation covering the lands and mountainous regions. Since then, the population has cut down 98.5% of its original forest cover, mostly for firewood (cooking), and in the process has destroyed fertile farmland soils, contributing to desertification. The once peerless topsoil of the former San Domingue has washed into the sea, gone forever. In satellite photos, you can see where the Haiti/Dominican Republic border is because the latter still has trees, whereas the former is bare dirt. Besides the destruction of farmland through soil erosion, deforestation has caused periodic flooding. For the past decade, American volunteers have planted about six million saplings in Haiti each year. During that same period, the Haitians have cut down 25-30 million mature trees each year. But this trend will end, since the Haitians may cut down their very last fully grown tree this year.

Haitian politics are violent. The long history of oppression by native dictators, such as François Duvalier, has markedly affected the nation. But the event that really destroyed Haiti was its own founding revolution, in which every person with the honesty, the good will, and the competence to have kept the island country prosperous and politically stable was murdered. According to the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), Haiti has a spectacularly high level of corruption — high enough to be comical if it weren’t real. Significant amounts of money collected for the betterment of the commonweal are routinely misdirected toward the sole benefit of those in power, a fact that has sparked uprisings in Haiti in the past.

US Representative Porter Goss of Florida (and former director of the CIA) says of the billions of dollars in US foreign aid, “We’ve been ripped off in Haiti and I don’t see why we should put more money into it. There’s so much corruption that the only way to make sure aid gets to the people is to fly down there yourself with some food, hand it to a Haitian, and watch him eat it in your presence.”

Nearly all Haitian leaders, however they were styled, have been Voodooists as well as corrupt politicians. A partial exception to that rule was Fabre-Nicholas Geffrard, Haitian president from 1859-67, during the first three years of his tenure. He tried to imitate the old French ways to recover some of the lost prosperity of San Domingue. However, Geffrard became corrupt like all the other Haitian bosses, succumbing to the usual financial temptations beginning in 1862, although he apparently was never a Voodooist.

Haiti is said to be a largely Christian country, with Roman Catholicism supposedly professed by 80% of Haitians. That is, however, a well-publicized myth. Haitian Voodoo, a variant of African Voodoo, is practiced by about half the population. In fact, Christianity isn’t significantly in practice in Haiti. What is mistaken for Christianity is essentially Voodoo with a Catholic veneer. Voodoo is polytheistic with a hierarchical assemblage of deities, and the basic difference between the African and Haitian versions of Voodoo is that, in the latter, the Voodoo deities are sometimes associated with the names of Catholic saints. One of the most powerful of these deities, or loas, is Danbhala-Wedo, who is believed to be represented in our mundane world by snakes. Voodoo a combination of snake-worship and spirit possession. Its “high ceremonies” sometimes involve human sacrifice, usually of a child — and cannibalism.

Nearly half the causes of deaths there have been attributed to HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Approximately 8% of Haiti’s adult population is infected with HIV. Intestinal parasites are common. Tuberculosis is about ten times more common in Haiti than in nearby Latin American countries. Some 30,000 people in Haiti suffer each year from malaria.

Much of Haiti, except for a few reserved areas which are carefully kept picturesque (and uninhabited), resembles a junk yard, which is additionally sometimes stripped of vegetation. Americans, and others, have tried repeatedly and at great expense to lift Haitians out of poverty; it hasn’t worked. It won’t work.

For further reading on the topic, see: Where Black Rules White: A Journey Across and About Hayti, by Hesketh Prichard, Kessinger Publishing, LLC (June 25, 2007), ISBN-10: 0548322139, ISBN-13: 978-0548322130; “The Worship of the Snake: Voodooism in Haiti Today,” by Judge Henry Austin, The New England Magazine, Vol. 47, pp. 170-182.

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LH Collins
LH Collins
20 January, 2022 7:27 am

If our ancestors had more appreciation for demographics, no Africans would have been transported to the Caribbean islands, and places such as Jamaica and Barbados would be getting by on more than just tourism.

Jim - National Alliance Staff
Jim - National Alliance Staff
Reply to  LH Collins
20 January, 2022 9:39 am

If we Whites inculcate that appreciation for demographics and add our strengths individually to that of the whole, not only can America become Whites only but so can the Caribbean. http://www.natall.com/about

LH Collins
LH Collins
Reply to  Jim - National Alliance Staff
6 April, 2022 5:48 am

We should do for Haiti what the Lib-Jews do to the West and discourage pregnancy and give condoms and contraceptives to Homo Erectus. Let the Congoids die-off peacefully.

Joshua
Joshua
20 January, 2022 11:13 am

No Black country will ever be anything but a cesspool.

Robert Ferrara
Robert Ferrara
20 January, 2022 5:50 pm

As my fellow Englishman once said, White man’s burden. Every single time.

Lorna
Lorna
21 January, 2022 5:35 pm

United Fruit Company was guilty of bringing these worthless blacks to work all over
the planet. Even Costa Rica who did not like blacks was ruined by black intrusion.
United Fruit Company should have been forced to send back the blacks to their
own domain and not leave them behind when United Fruit was thru with their
rape of an island/country.
The indigenous people of what is called Haiti were Indians who were wiped out.

Rockwell's Ghost
Rockwell's Ghost
Reply to  Lorna
28 January, 2022 8:30 am

United Fruit was a JEW outfit. Case closed.

Danny
Danny
Reply to  Rockwell's Ghost
30 January, 2022 6:35 pm

Just looked into the three guys who started it none were Jews ..Minor Cooper Keith, Andrew Preston, Lorenzo Dow Baker

MichaelR
MichaelR
21 January, 2022 9:27 pm

This story about Haiti, which Dr. Pierce also discussed on ADV, is the best possible story imaginable to wake up the lemmings to racial realities. But it shouldn’t take a story that makes the truth as obvious as this to wake people up. There may be a certain threshold beyond which the brainwashed libtards CANNOT. They MUST accept as fact the Marxist academic and anti-White libtarded explanations for Negro failure and pathology.

Alex Nguyen
Alex Nguyen
22 January, 2022 1:42 am

The French had better luck with Vietnam than they ever did with Haiti. Sure they’re not the most prosperous Asian country, but they’re not as violent or crazy as the Africans in Haiti.

Former Liberal
Former Liberal
23 January, 2022 9:46 am

I’ve been in Haiti twice: once with some friends who were with the Peace Corps at one time, and then compliments of the U.S. Government in 1994. Everything in your article is corrct. Except for Somalia, Haiti is the most corrupt, messed up and pathetic place I have ever seen. Any dumb liberal who believes that blacks ” are just like us” should be forced to reside in those places for a minimum of six months. It’s rather sad, but you can’t change genetics.

Alex Nguyen
Alex Nguyen
Reply to  Former Liberal
24 January, 2022 1:40 am

I never really trusted blacks that much, even as a kid. Unfortunately in modern day California, we were taught that blacks are human. However, I’m not the only Asian that thinks that way, other Asian races such as the Japanese and Chinese, and maybe Koreans a la Rooftop Koreans, don’t like them either. For good reason.

ricck lineheart
ricck lineheart
28 January, 2022 6:59 pm

Even here in the United States the cities in areas where the population is obviously Black resemble one large junk yard. And this is the case all across the country . Its a waste to keep throwing away money .

Servenet
Servenet
30 January, 2022 11:24 am

I have always been dumbfounded that the extirpation of the French people on that island during the Haitian revolution wan´t responded to WITH THE FRENCH FLEET RETURNING AND EMPTYING OUT THAT ISLAND OF EVERY SINGLE BLACK THEREON. I mean I find it horrifying in its own right that this was not, and especially at that time with its comparatively vastly more rational view of race, EXACTLY what was prosecuted as the only rational and JUST response to such a horror against the French – both directly against the slaughtered specifically and the French people as a whole. You´d have thought the year was 2020 rather than 1800.

Servenet
Servenet
30 January, 2022 1:49 pm

There is absolutely NO RATIONAL REASON that certain people groups (extend yourself to imagine what group(s) I have in mind) should NOT BE DISPLACED AND REPLACED by one that can and has, all over the world, turned the wilderness into a glistening civilization. This HAD BEEN the way of the world for millennia until modern times. This once great country ONLY EXISTS BECAUSE THIS WAS THE FORMER WORLD-VIEW. Think of that continent that is richer in resources and grandeur than any other and how that it is a stagnant ¨s@@t-hole¨ because of the creatures who infest it. There is NO REASON that this should have been licensed in the first place and none that it should be permitted to continue. And yet it has been and does. No, this isn´t… Read more »

Jim - National Alliance Staff
Jim - National Alliance Staff
Reply to  Servenet
30 January, 2022 8:53 pm

Correct, Servenet. It doesn’t have to be this way. We in the Alliance want to change that state of mind for those of our people healthy enough to come around to it. It requires institutional kind of work, such as education, media, and those who can contribute in meaningful ways towards that. It’s why the National Alliance has this as one of its near-term goals. We need volunteers and donors to make this happen on a continual basis.