Disaster is opportunity to do right in Haiti
By Derrick Z. Jackson | Saturday, January 16, 2010 | The Boston Globe
“…Our tortured policy began when President Thomas Jefferson, fearing that the slave revolt that made Haiti independent would inspire American slaves, started a crippling policy of trade embargoes and diplomatic nonrecognition that lasted into our Civil War. ‘Confine the pest to the island’, he said. The degree to which that revolt still spooks some conservatives was evident this week, when televangelist Pat Robertson said the earthquake proves that Haiti is cursed by its ‘pact to the devil’ the slaves made to gain their freedom….”…BS
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