French president’s use of term comes as demand grows for formal discussion on addressing legacies of enslavement
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France will never repay its debt to the people of Haiti.
So it shouldn’t bother trying then?
They’re not even trying.
If they neither can nor are even trying to, then there’s no point in making something out of it.
If France wants to some to terms with its legacy of slavery, job 1 should be fixing Haiti after they impoverished as revenge on ungrateful slaves.
You’re dancing around the issue at hand. If France doesn’t want to come to terms and Haiti feels no reparations are enough, then the discussion is pointless. Because when nothing you do is enough, you will end up choosing to do nothing.
