Paris' defence minister on Sunday condemned the latest instalment of Marvel's Black Panther franchise, which depicts French troops caught trying to steal resources belonging to the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda.
:data-laughing: :data-laughing: :france-cool:
I guess I have to watch a marvel movie now
Is this like the British being mad about RRR. Didn't France collect reparations from Haiti for freeing themselves from slavery until a few years ago?
I wouldn't call 1948 a few years ago, but yes they did
For some reason I thought it only ended in like the early 2000s.
I thought the debt was still ongoing, it was just owned by private banks now.
Haiti paid off the last of it's original debt to Citibank in 1947. Haiti's current foreign debts are just normal neo-colonial debts now.
Haiti's debts were always to banks. France demanded basically immediate payment of reparations for the farms and slaves that Haiti stole and forced Haiti to take out loans from French banks at high interest rates to repay that debt. This is what people mean when they talk about Haiti's "double debt". The first debt is the reparations that Haiti had to pay to France and the second is the interest payment and fees that Haiti had to pay to the banks.
Thanks for the accurate details. I'll file away the factoid that Haiti paid the equivalent of $21 Billion USD (2004 value) for doing a slave revolt, and this payment continued well after slavery had been made illegal in all the debt-holding nations.
There's one more weird part I forgot to mention. France got kicked out of Haiti and definitively lost the war then they came back 20 years later to demand reparations for the war that they lost. War reparations are normally paid by the loser to the winner but I guess things are different when you're a Great Power.
Yes
IIRC, they sold Haiti's "debt" to Citibank; of course this doesn't make France better, just also makes Citibank also culpable.
EDIT: I oughta read the thread before commenting.