country you grew up in? no. you don t have to put up with this, we can solve it in a day, to send these people back immediately. haitians are not bad people, a lot overteem are great people. but we have no obligation to let them into our country. american citizens oaf no debt to haiti.em haiti was never an american colony, haiti has been anit im-independent country since 1804. for most of that time we have sent haiti a whole lot of aid. however sad and dysfunctional haiti might be, it is not our fault, that s for sure. and if joe biden is now punishing border patrol officers who try to enforce the law, who dare to deter haitians from entering this country illegally, with their ravens. they weren t whips, they were ravens. it doesn t matter to the biden administration. the officers realhe crime was trying to do their jobs, trying to stop illegal migration into this country. will likely be suspended or fired. can you imagage punishing law enforce. for enforcing the law? this is insane.
tucker: sound like the country you grew up in? no. you don t have to put up with this, we can solve it in a day, to send these people back immediately. haitians are not bad people, a lot overteem are great people. but we have no obligation to let them into our country. american citizens oaf no debt to haiti. hate y was never an american colony, haiti has been an im-independent country since 1804. for most of that time we have sent haiti a whole lot of aid. however sad and dysfunctional haiti might be, it is not our fault, that s for sure. and if joe biden is now punishing border patrol officers who try to enforce the law, who dare to deter haitians from entering this country illegally, with their ravens. they weren t whips, they were ravens. it doesn t matter to the biden administration. the officers real crime was trying to do their jobs, trying to stop illegal migration into this country. will likely be suspended or fired. can you imagage punishing law enforce. for enforcing the l
to happen overnight. but you have said you have been arguing for it for 100 years. absolutely. so what has the uk government, for instance, government, for instance, said on reparations to you? the uk government has always said that slavery was not a crime, that slavery was legal, we did nothing wrong, we are not going to apologise. you are not shifting minds, are you? well, we are trying, and we will always try. but here is the issue, zeinab, it took us all of the 19th century to uproot slavery from the world. the haitians first in 1804 through to the english, the french, the dutch, and ultimately the portuguese in brazil. it took 100 years of struggle to end slavery. now, then it took us another 100 years to convert freedom into civil rights. it took us all of the 20th century. you are saying patience. if it takes us all of the 21st century to have reparatory justice, generation by generation the struggle goes on. but let me ask you, while you re waiting for official recognition from
of slaves to the colony to work its plantations. they were literally worked to death. these slaves had an average life expectancy of just 21 years. in 1791, the slaves, who outnumbered white men on the colony 16-1 revolted. for 12 years led by the former slave-turned-rebel leader, they fought against the french settlers, eventually defeating napoleon s army. on january 1st, 1804, the rebels founded the world s first free black republic. far before the rest of the world, haiti s founders took the lessons of the french revolution, the universal rights of man across the atlantic to their logical conclusion. the country established freedom for black people, not just white men. because this was a radical idea at the time, western countries, including the united states, shunned haiti. world leaders traded minimally with it.