This is how ignorant you have to be to call Haiti a ‘shithole’

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(THIS ARTICLE IS COURTESY OF THE WASHINGTON POST)

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President Trump’s defenders don’t know anything about Haiti’s history — or the United States’s.

By Jonathan M. Katz January 12 at 5:36 PM

Jonathan M. Katz, a freelance journalist, is the author of “The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster.” He is the director of the media and journalism initiative at Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute.

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Long before ‘shithole,’ the U.S.-Haiti relationship was complicated

President Trump is under fire for referring to Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries as “shithole countries.”(Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)

The president had no respect for Haiti. He could see as well as anyone following the news that the country was a basket case — wracked by…

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