Off top. While Haiti is regarded as the site of the only successful enslaved black revolution,

they were not accepted into the international community until they agreed to repay France

for the financial cause of losing a lucrative free labor colony. As a result,

Haiti has remained in debt and has never been able to build a fully functioning state.

The only Haitian leader who attempted to address the unjust history was deposed in the early 1990s

with assistance of France and America. So was it actually a successful revolution? Play the music.

This is the Dominique Foxworth Show. Nothing to say Charlie, no chocolate, no thing to that one,

no fun. I don't think you realize that I was a history major in college and did a lot of care

of being a Latin American history, wrote a thesis on economic development in the Dominican Republic

and Cuba. Dominican Republic shares a lot of economic stuff with Haiti on that island.

So yeah, I was up on that one. The DR is actually like a lot more like advanced and financially

stable in part because, well, in large part, because of like the double debt that was forced

onto the Haitian people for the horrible crime of freeing themselves from slavery. It's

kind of a wild story and like we just talk about the some of the, I mean, I guess the point

there is like one is black history month and I realized that I should probably not do weird

animal sex for black history month. So have a little transatlantic slave trade for you.

But too, like we don't, it's probably true of people in the same way as true of governments is

we don't know how places or people end up how they are. And I think the assumption when we have

like Haitian immigrants is like the assumption is it failed state because of corruption and

mismanagement. And it's probably true of a lot of failed states is that it's actually not always

or it's easier. It's a much more complicated story than the ones that we want to tell. And I think

that's true of like someone who's individual who's hugely successful or individual who's like

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