Yes!!!!! I teach my students about this every year and everyone needs to know about this. Not only this, France only relieved the debt a few years ago and this is why Haiti remains one of the poorest countries in the world. France’s actions were and are shameful. THEY need to be paying HAITI reparations in today’s valuation to begin to restore what they stole. Thank you for bringing exposure to this.
I once had a teacher blame Haitians for being so poor. I wrote a paper about the debt, and she accused me of making it up 🙄thank you for sharing this very true and important information! We should absolutely be talking about it!
Paris is a dump being taken over by other 3rd world scum. Homeless bums and beggars loiter the streets waiting to rob potential victims, with no purpose or future.
So you're telling me it was always like that... Please the place was always Paris but the money to build more and the up keep of the country is my people money. So all the gold and jewels the British has is not from Africa, don't tell me it was always there 😅
Hell yeah!!! I thank you for bringing this up. One of the many crimes committed throughout history that don't get discussed. If we start talking about reparations for the many crimes committed in history. We're told well that wasn't me.
Last time Aristide talked about getting that money back for Haiti George Bush and France pick him up and sent him in exile saying the Haitians didn’t want their president to govern anymore
@@Florida305allyour comment is irrelevant. No one says Dominicans are responsible for Haitians situation and please stay off Haitian’s topic unless your country’s name is mentioned, thank you.
I’m so glad you took the time to talk about this. Your content really runs the gamut. And you scored major points with me for shining light on this important piece of financial history. Keep it coming.
Please also speak on the second heist which took place in 1914. President Wilson sent Marines to Haiti to "remove $500,000 worth of bullion for safekeeping in a Wall Street vault". Then US forces returned and brutally took over Haiti for 19 years. I follow you on tik tok so I'm glad you're here also! Thanks for speaking on this!
I never comment, but I had to because I’m Haitian and I love your videos. I have been saying this for years. If we were not out that money, we would be on our beautiful little Caribbean island, and we would not need to look elsewhere to survive. Haitians should be given that money back so that we can restore it and create better for the future generations. Let’s not forget the metal that’s being taken from Haitian mountains by the truck loads to make space ships… Thank you for shinning a light on this with your platform. And thank you for all your wonderful financial advice. I am now a fan of yours even more! 😊 Haiti is pure beauty in poverty (sigh). Hopefully Haiti will shine the gem it is one day.
The French were humiliated and embarrassed that their evil system of slavery and the wealth they thought they would gain off the back of free labor was brought to dust! Haitians did it first and they still can’t get over it, even to this day Haiti is being exploited! 👍🏾💪🏿🙏🏿Igbo strong!
From a Haitian American thansk for this! i knew this and teach my kids about this. And when you find out the US was also involved..... it makes me so mad. But yeah Haiti is the "poorest" nation in The western hemisphere... because of their poor management. Sure, ok.😒🙄
This is why history needs to be understood for context. Why is Haiti in the situation it’s in now? The origins start with what you just educated us on. Thank you.
History is so limited in the American educational system. Haiti's origin story is not represented in American history courses. Thanks for sharing this information - it is a great lesson.
I think France was more angry that the blood thirsty Dessalines massacred people for simply being French and then enslaved his own people again for the sake of exporting cash crops to raise funds to conquer Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) where he also massacred Hispanic peoples simply for not being black
America's Citi Bank also played a huge role in Haiti's double debt! Additionally, during America's military control of Haiti, American marines stole Haitian gold from the Bank of Haiti.
Actually Haiti never paid the debt, like Weimar Germany after WW1 they defaulted on it and never paid, Haiti is poor today mainly because of Haitian dictator Francois Duvalier embezzling over 41% of the country's GDP and because Haiti in the 60s and 70s took out so many foreign loans to try to build it's economy it destroyed it's own credit to the point other countries didn't want to give it any money.
no mention of how the Haitian empire used the people of the Dominican Republic for unpaid forced labour. The Dominican Republic was exploited horribly and we should be talking about it
My guy they wasn’t Dominicans at the time, they also used Haitians as well who fought for the freedom. It’s why the leaders were terminated by the Haitian people. Haiti enslaved everyone in the island to pay off the European debt, Dominicana did not fight for their freedom from Spain, Haitians freed the entire island. It wasn’t until after that the people on the east decided to separate because Haitians started to do the same thing the Europeans were doing. Which I do not blame the Dominicans at all for going their own way.
@gboarhtur3402 Dominicans existed on the island before the French brought the Haitians similar to Puerto Ricans and Cubans. The majority of Dominicans were not.slaves and the Dominicans were already independent in 1821 before Haiti annexed the nation in 1822. The Dominican Republic then removed Haiti in 1844 and then the Haitians invaded and lost in the wars against the Domimican Republic. I support the Haitian independence but some of these Afrocentric teachers in the US purposefully omit large parts of history to suit their narratives. Haiti also did wrong and had internal issues something a lot of these activists avoid talking about.
It's always very interesting to me how these things happened on one side of an island while the other side (Dominican Republic) has such a different history.🤯
Thank you for bringing attention to this, my grand mother along with my parents told me about this, but I have yet to see many people bring recognition to our country, thank you
That is straight up gangster! Haiti is impoverished to this day. And it’s unlikely to change anytime soon. Also so most Americans don’t know that the the plantation owners were paid reparations for the human ‘property’ they lost as a result of the Civil War. One of the myriad reasons why the experience of black Americans should be included in teaching our history.
This does show that reparations can be paid though even though this was definitely in the wrong direction. Most of Europe is still benefitting from their colonial exploits whilst the countries they stole from aren't. Any time you mentioned reparations, they say oh it's too difficult and you can't expect the every day British person to pay for something their ancestors did. Yeah obviously, but you could actually have just have payments like this and also not call it Aid
I’m a proud Haitian. Thank you for posting this and to the young lady for making this simplied story of a major piece of history. Haiti can bounce back if the US and France pay reparations + stay out of Haiti.
I did a book report about this SAME THING in High School in 1994. And teacher said I was being racist. I want to find the nursing home she's and show her this video thank you. Vivian!
Yes, we know this history in Puerto Rico and stand with Haiti for the years of suffering that they been through just to be free. We have very similar history, but instead of the loan we have the JONES ACT. It has taken the ability of the Puerto Rican people to progress in the island with the amount of ridiculous hidden taxes they have to pay. It is a “model” copy from France. Now gentrification for the rich to take over their land. 😢
I actually stopped in Paris recently coming from Kenya and I shook my head at the airport saying they used Haiti’s money to build Paris as we know today it pissed off I was ready for my plane to come
Thank you for talking about this injustice. make a part 2 about how this liberation paved the way for independence for so many Caribbean nations and France and all colonialists are racist robbers!
Haiti got $6 billion after the quakes. Clinton Foundation stole half of it. Haitian thug leaders stole the rest. Google: Haiti's genocide against ALL whites and mulattos (not just the French) under Dessalines. Any useful whites to help the country rebuild were killed and foreign investors were scared off. Also, google: The racist expulsion by Haiti of Syrians and Middle Easterners in the 20th century when they started to succeed economically (and the locals got jealous).
Read The Black Jacobins by CLR James. You can find a free pdf online. Haiti has also been the victim of invasion, military occupation, and regime change throughout its history. Just recently, mass protests prevented a "helpful" military occupation by the US. Instead, police are being sent from Kenya to help prop up Haiti's unpopular, corrupt, unelected govt. This seems like a good thing superficially (They have the same skin color right? That's all that matters right?), but Kenya's govt is quite deferential to Western colonialism and has been recently cracking down on its own people's protests against the IMF (which, if you haven't heard of it, is essentially payday lending but for countries.) So in all likelihood they will more or less do the USA's bidding in suppressing Haiti's people. I hope I turn out to be wrong.
As a haitian let me tell you something. Many haitians would rather die than go back to slavery. We were willing to give anything to keep our freedom. To this day we are paying for this Roberry. Justice for Haiti
Thanks so much for sharing this story, it's very important. Too many Black states around the world have suffered from this kind of financial decapitation and very few people know it. Nor do they understand the real economic impact of such a huge financial drain for so long. On top of this there were ancillary insults like having to pay France to print all their currency, and only France could do it by law. Of course they did it at a premium. It's quite tantamount to African American sharecroppers in The South after Reconstruction. No matter how much they made, they always owed more. A special kind of evil. I think what's particularly poignant, that no one brings up, is how poor France would be today without that money. They tout themselves as part of the first world, part of the G-7, but they can only hold that place by their thuggery against defenseless third world countries like Haiti. I wonder what France would look like today if Haiti had just said, "No!" ? Thanks again for sharing this.
They wanted reparations from the people they kidnapped and enslaved. The audacity.
They got it.
The audacity
Sounds about whyte...
Oh the shameless brutal French liberty,equality and fraternity, they forgot to mention brutality and hypocrisy 🙄
The fact that France hasn't owned up to this, apologized and returned that money is just sad. Hope for the best for Haiti.
Yes!!!!! I teach my students about this every year and everyone needs to know about this. Not only this, France only relieved the debt a few years ago and this is why Haiti remains one of the poorest countries in the world. France’s actions were and are shameful. THEY need to be paying HAITI reparations in today’s valuation to begin to restore what they stole. Thank you for bringing exposure to this.
And haitians need to give the whole country back to the natives. They were carib not black people
I once had a teacher blame Haitians for being so poor. I wrote a paper about the debt, and she accused me of making it up 🙄thank you for sharing this very true and important information! We should absolutely be talking about it!
Show her the facts internet don't lie
You should give her a stack of the references and call her a raycist
That debt was paid off a long time ago haitis corrupt leaders have been stealing the money so it is Haitians fault to a degree
Was she white?
Talk about it and do what... Just talk?
Ok, we talked about it. Now what?
That's Haiti money all over Paris...
Correct
Deep
Paris was build before French colonized overseas lmao
Paris is a dump being taken over by other 3rd world scum. Homeless bums and beggars loiter the streets waiting to rob potential victims, with no purpose or future.
So you're telling me it was always like that... Please the place was always Paris but the money to build more and the up keep of the country is my people money. So all the gold and jewels the British has is not from Africa, don't tell me it was always there 😅
most importantly, the US government guaranteed the ransom would be paid, it also was the reason the Louisiana purchase happened.
Wow. Just learned this part from u. Thnx
Without Haiti the United States would be a lot smaller...
@JNeace-uk8ue yep it's the geopolitical gangsterism that underpins the world we live in.
@@manfromyard3143🤣🤣🤣
I'm Haitian, thanks for sharing this often forgotten fact.
Just remember Dominican Republic is not responsible for Haiti
@@Florida305all France is 🇫🇷
How are you using a computer?
Doesn't mean you can't be kind and show support 💪@@Florida305all
@@Florida305allabsolutely nobody said that
I’m not Haitian but love you for talking about this. You got a new subscriber!
Hell yeah!!! I thank you for bringing this up. One of the many crimes committed throughout history that don't get discussed. If we start talking about reparations for the many crimes committed in history. We're told well that wasn't me.
Jean Claude Duvalier certainly did not improve things. . .
SAME
@@atorres4732this is history not today. Like what you're gonna do? Go time travel back and save them?
The gangs are not helping by destroying everything
Last time Aristide talked about getting that money back for Haiti George Bush and France pick him up and sent him in exile saying the Haitians didn’t want their president to govern anymore
Yes this is true!
@@zionsdaughter3954if I can recall, wasn't ppl being burned to death with tires around their body under Aristide governance? I could be wrong.
From an haitian thank you to talk about it
Just remember Dominican Republic is not responsible for Haiti situation
@@Florida305all 😒
@@Florida305allAnd why would we blame Dominicans? Dominicans are not responsible for France’s actions. Actually France tried to screw DR too
@@Florida305all What made you feel the need to clarify that?
@@Florida305allyour comment is irrelevant.
No one says Dominicans are responsible for Haitians situation and please stay off Haitian’s topic unless your country’s name is mentioned, thank you.
I’m so glad you took the time to talk about this. Your content really runs the gamut. And you scored major points with me for shining light on this important piece of financial history. Keep it coming.
Haitian here I love watching you Viv they're still Robin us now there taking are resources. Thank you for your research
Please also speak on the second heist which took place in 1914. President Wilson sent Marines to Haiti to "remove $500,000 worth of bullion for safekeeping in a Wall Street vault". Then US forces returned and brutally took over Haiti for 19 years.
I follow you on tik tok so I'm glad you're here also! Thanks for speaking on this!
I never comment, but I had to because I’m Haitian and I love your videos. I have been saying this for years. If we were not out that money, we would be on our beautiful little Caribbean island, and we would not need to look elsewhere to survive. Haitians should be given that money back so that we can restore it and create better for the future generations. Let’s not forget the metal that’s being taken from Haitian mountains by the truck loads to make space ships… Thank you for shinning a light on this with your platform. And thank you for all your wonderful financial advice. I am now a fan of yours even more! 😊
Haiti is pure beauty in poverty (sigh). Hopefully Haiti will shine the gem it is one day.
Just remember Dominican Republic is not responsible for Haiti
That debt was paid off a long time ago and you guys keep having corrupt leaders like papa doc and baby doc
The French were humiliated and embarrassed that their evil system of slavery and the wealth they thought they would gain off the back of free labor was brought to dust! Haitians did it first and they still can’t get over it, even to this day Haiti is being exploited! 👍🏾💪🏿🙏🏿Igbo strong!
it wasn't free labor, slaves were given food and shelter
They made a literal deal with Satan, it's historical record. They're playing for that to this day. It's on them.
@@naelyneurkopfen9741 not true! Haitian people are Israelites it’s in their blood to defeat their oppressor!
You know what slaves mean?
@@laughingvampire7555 just like people who work 9-5 right
Thank you, I'm not Haitian, but I have explained this to people many times.
Dominican Republic is not responsible for Haiti situation
@@Florida305allwho said they were? Weirdo
From a Haitian American thansk for this! i knew this and teach my kids about this. And when you find out the US was also involved..... it makes me so mad. But yeah Haiti is the "poorest" nation in The western hemisphere... because of their poor management. Sure, ok.😒🙄
Also the clintons
Thank you for sharing this. It is very important to know about and most people are unaware, even if it makes the news.
And this is why Haiti is the way it is today! 😒
They PEACEFULLY sent their French masters and all whites living there back to France.
Horrific - enslaved, fought back and made to pay their perpetrators down the generations. Paris was built from blood.
This is why history needs to be understood for context. Why is Haiti in the situation it’s in now? The origins start with what you just educated us on. Thank you.
They are still being robbed.
History is so limited in the American educational system. Haiti's origin story is not represented in American history courses. Thanks for sharing this information - it is a great lesson.
Keep the content coming, you’re killing it! Your channel will definitely blow up
We need a movie here.
Yes!!!
I KNOW.
Yes
There is a movie it’s called toussaint l’overture
The French are so angry that the Haitians refused to be slaves! Thank you for sharing this info. ❤
Haiti has the second most amount slaves in the world right now.
I think France was more angry that the blood thirsty Dessalines massacred people for simply being French and then enslaved his own people again for the sake of exporting cash crops to raise funds to conquer Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) where he also massacred Hispanic peoples simply for not being black
They paid the debt off almost 100 years ago.
America's Citi Bank also played a huge role in Haiti's double debt! Additionally, during America's military control of Haiti, American marines stole Haitian gold from the Bank of Haiti.
A lot of Caribbean islands have been put through a lot from England, France, etc. Not okay at all.
Send this woman to Haiti
The truth hurts that's why they don't want to taught in schools
Actually Haiti never paid the debt, like Weimar Germany after WW1 they defaulted on it and never paid, Haiti is poor today mainly because of Haitian dictator Francois Duvalier embezzling over 41% of the country's GDP and because Haiti in the 60s and 70s took out so many foreign loans to try to build it's economy it destroyed it's own credit to the point other countries didn't want to give it any money.
I’m Haitian and I want to thank you. ❤
Facts and much love to you for spreading the truth!
She’s right and that’s something that most of the Haitians don’t know they temp to blame us Dominicans
no mention of how the Haitian empire used the people of the Dominican Republic for unpaid forced labour. The Dominican Republic was exploited horribly and we should be talking about it
My guy they wasn’t Dominicans at the time, they also used Haitians as well who fought for the freedom. It’s why the leaders were terminated by the Haitian people. Haiti enslaved everyone in the island to pay off the European debt, Dominicana did not fight for their freedom from Spain, Haitians freed the entire island. It wasn’t until after that the people on the east decided to separate because Haitians started to do the same thing the Europeans were doing. Which I do not blame the Dominicans at all for going their own way.
@gboarhtur3402 Dominicans existed on the island before the French brought the Haitians similar to Puerto Ricans and Cubans.
The majority of Dominicans were not.slaves and the Dominicans were already independent in 1821 before Haiti annexed the nation in 1822. The Dominican Republic then removed Haiti in 1844 and then the Haitians invaded and lost in the wars against the Domimican Republic.
I support the Haitian independence but some of these Afrocentric teachers in the US purposefully omit large parts of history to suit their narratives. Haiti also did wrong and had internal issues something a lot of these activists avoid talking about.
French also destroyed their city’s infrastructure. Poured concrete into the sewer lines. Burned down sugar cane fields
Thanks so much for speaking up for our people. Love from a Haitian sister❤️
It's always very interesting to me how these things happened on one side of an island while the other side (Dominican Republic) has such a different history.🤯
Thank you for sharing this story again🙌🏽
Thankyou for bringing this to the media we need to be aware of this and I also feel like the Haitians should especially be aware of this.
This is dope. Way to educate 💪🏽
Thank you for bringing attention to this, my grand mother along with my parents told me about this, but I have yet to see many people bring recognition to our country, thank you
Thank you for speaking out about this.
That is straight up gangster! Haiti is impoverished to this day. And it’s unlikely to change anytime soon. Also so most Americans don’t know that the the plantation owners were paid reparations for the human ‘property’ they lost as a result of the Civil War. One of the myriad reasons why the experience of black Americans should be included in teaching our history.
France demanded reparations. The irony.
Wow... I've never knew this. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for bringing awareness to this. As a haitian I appreciate it ❤
Thanks for sharing, this does open a new angle.
finally someone speak on this. haiti really got the hard end of the stick.
Thank you so much for telling my peoples’ story!
Sadly, Haiti has become far too corrupt to thrive. Its lost wealth aside, the entire country is in need of a complete reset.
This does show that reparations can be paid though even though this was definitely in the wrong direction. Most of Europe is still benefitting from their colonial exploits whilst the countries they stole from aren't. Any time you mentioned reparations, they say oh it's too difficult and you can't expect the every day British person to pay for something their ancestors did. Yeah obviously, but you could actually have just have payments like this and also not call it Aid
Wise man said....the poorest will be the richest‼️ Someday.
Thank you for talking about this!
Spread the word!!!
I’m a proud Haitian. Thank you for posting this and to the young lady for making this simplied story of a major piece of history. Haiti can bounce back if the US and France pay reparations + stay out of Haiti.
THANK YOU FIR MAKING THIS KNOWN
Thank you for talking about it. Today France is still propped up by their former colonies.
The fact that the French sought reparations from the people they previously had enslaved boils my blood.
Thank you...US also played a part
THANK YOU FOR THISSS!!!
Thank you for doing this kind of content
Give them opportunity . They are smart and hard working in making millions of kids.
I did a book report about this SAME THING in High School in 1994. And teacher said I was being racist. I want to find the nursing home she's and show her this video thank you. Vivian!
Absolutely Right! The US is also complicit. Let’s talk about that as well!
You are correct
Thank you for starting Gia so succinctly. So many people don’t understand this.
Vivian really is an Ally. Sharing!
Haiti poverty was no accident, It was engineered
Thank you for talking about this because most people don't know this happened and France should be paying them back
That's even worst than Philippines! That make me feel angry... Grrrr
When France gonna repay the funds? 😤
Yes, we know this history in Puerto Rico and stand with Haiti for the years of suffering that they been through just to be free. We have very similar history, but instead of the loan we have the JONES ACT. It has taken the ability of the Puerto Rican people to progress in the island with the amount of ridiculous hidden taxes they have to pay. It is a “model” copy from France. Now gentrification for the rich to take over their land. 😢
Yes they were robbed and still suffering to this day.
I actually stopped in Paris recently coming from Kenya and I shook my head at the airport saying they used Haiti’s money to build Paris as we know today it pissed off I was ready for my plane to come
Thats beyond damn sad....
Why aren't they taking the French government to international court??
I bet you they don’t want you to know about this history in Florida!
This information is Nowhere in any history books that I studied in school🤯🤬
Thank you for sharing this history.
Thank you for talking about this injustice. make a part 2 about how this liberation paved the way for independence for so many Caribbean nations and France and all colonialists are racist robbers!
France should give $21B directly back to the Haitian people.
Exactly why loans are nothing more than a setup...smh
Thank you for talking about it.
Thank you! Someone gets us!
Thank you!
We need that money back
Thank you for educating me! Please keep going!!!!
Thank you for talking about this!!!
This is painful. 😢
And this is what they don't want you to learn in school. Anytime you hear CRT, think "they don't want you to know real human history"
Haiti got $6 billion after the quakes.
Clinton Foundation stole half of it.
Haitian thug leaders stole the rest.
Google: Haiti's genocide against ALL whites and mulattos (not just the French) under Dessalines. Any useful whites to help the country rebuild were killed and foreign investors were scared off.
Also, google: The racist expulsion by Haiti of Syrians and Middle Easterners in the 20th century when they started to succeed economically (and the locals got jealous).
Haiti is punished and we know it.
Read The Black Jacobins by CLR James. You can find a free pdf online.
Haiti has also been the victim of invasion, military occupation, and regime change throughout its history. Just recently, mass protests prevented a "helpful" military occupation by the US.
Instead, police are being sent from Kenya to help prop up Haiti's unpopular, corrupt, unelected govt. This seems like a good thing superficially (They have the same skin color right? That's all that matters right?), but Kenya's govt is quite deferential to Western colonialism and has been recently cracking down on its own people's protests against the IMF (which, if you haven't heard of it, is essentially payday lending but for countries.) So in all likelihood they will more or less do the USA's bidding in suppressing Haiti's people. I hope I turn out to be wrong.
Thank you 💗💗💗
Lol this has absolutely nothing to do with why Haiti looks the way it does.
That’s not how economics works.
Thank you❤❤❤
As a haitian let me tell you something. Many haitians would rather die than go back to slavery. We were willing to give anything to keep our freedom. To this day we are paying for this Roberry. Justice for Haiti
Haiti still has slavery to this day. Look it up.
Thanks so much for sharing this story, it's very important. Too many Black states around the world have suffered from this kind of financial decapitation and very few people know it. Nor do they understand the real economic impact of such a huge financial drain for so long. On top of this there were ancillary insults like having to pay France to print all their currency, and only France could do it by law. Of course they did it at a premium. It's quite tantamount to African American sharecroppers in The South after Reconstruction. No matter how much they made, they always owed more. A special kind of evil.
I think what's particularly poignant, that no one brings up, is how poor France would be today without that money. They tout themselves as part of the first world, part of the G-7, but they can only hold that place by their thuggery against defenseless third world countries like Haiti. I wonder what France would look like today if Haiti had just said, "No!" ?
Thanks again for sharing this.
Yon jou Ayiti pral ka lève tèt-li !! 💪🏾💪🏾🔥🔥
Those S’s are killing me 👂 😂😂😂