Did y’all know that after the Haitian revolution -in which the slaves fought and died to liberate themselves- the French government made *them* pay reparations?
The former SLAVES had to pay FRANCE the equivalent of $22 billion in today’s money.
Its 200 years later and I am mad as hell right now.
Haiti was the richest economy in the Western Hemisphere because of sugarcane slavery.
They made sure that as the first free black country, it was the poorest.
@ConanOBrien’s new @netflix show #ConanWithoutBorders His Haiti episode is incredible. So add the redhead to ur #BlackHistoryMonth