-Haiti became so fucked as a result of colonial and post-colonial meddeling by European nations. You only have to flip through a random page in a history book to understand what kind of pressures exists under extreme federal poverty and disheartened people (if you need a good white example, think Germany circa the 1930s). Corruption and evil if you will in political leadership does not have a color, we simply seem to see it that way. There are many “white countries” that I would be too afraid to step foot in the same way you feel about Africa and haiti. How do you explain away/or even blame on the blacks the atrocities that have happened in Armenia, Chechenya, and the current slaughtering in Kyrgyzstan? As usual, your point of view and that of many others is STEEPED in a Westernist perception. A Western perception is one that doesn’t care about the rest of the world, except those parts that help feed into its own ideology. And in this case, highlighting the plights and shortcommings of all black countries works out. Our news, media, and of course educational tools specifically and purposely construct our view of the world and how we are to view it.

- The money sent to Haiti for the most part came in the form of private contributions to private countries. President Obama nor the federal government has no control over where that money goes. I also doubt it was anywhere near a trillion dollars.

- While I personally am also sick of the cry for reparations, the Africans who did sell other Africans into slaver had nothing to do with the extreme mistreatment they received (and their descendants continue to receive) for hundreds of years once the y reached North America.

–in short, Let’s really think about things before we talk and try to clear ourselves of our Westernist-only way of viewing the world in order to grasp a better understanding of things and why they work.

“A women in Africa is four times more likely to be raped than learn how to read, yet their leaders live in royal palaces with great food, drugs, alcohol and white whores.” – You do realize that not every country in Africa is like Sudan/Somalia right? And not every nation in Africa is ruled by a oppressive greedy drug addicted dictator, I hope you are not like many Westerners with their extremely bad habit of thinking Africa = all the same (which I lay most of the blame on the media).

Now onward to Obama – how would the President of the U.S. help, specifically, “our people”? His job is to look out and lead ALL Americans, not to cater to a certain group because of similarity in skin color. And this country was being destroyed WAY before Obama got into office, it’s hilarious how some people seem to have forgotten all about Bush and the FACT…keyword FACT that we are in debt mainly because of him.
And what does Haiti being a “rat hole” have to do with the fact that saving lives from a major catastrophe have anything do with what you’re trying to argue? Are you saying “it’s a rat-hole so just let them die/suffer because it is a rat-hole”? If so, that makes no sense and when people are in need, like Haiti obviously is, those with more help those in times of need. It’s not as if we were pouring trillions of dollars into Haiti prior to the earthquake so again, I don’t see the point of your argument beyond a “screw them for being a rat-hole” stance which, IF that’s the case, is wrong on SO many levels.

Yes, Africans owned and traded other Africans as slaves…just like other continents did for THOUSANDS of years but this doesn’t mean MOST/ALL did that, as a matter of fact some refused to give slaves to Europeans (some resulted in becoming slaves themselves because of that). However – slavery in Africa was not like the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, people were not born into slavery in Africa, most cases there was a time period where people were required to serve and slaves in Africa actually had some rights and were far more humanely than those who were sent to the New World (those who made it I should say). And usually the slavery in Africa was either from victories in wars/battles or righting wrongs, it wasn’t because they were “bunch of uncivilized darkies”. Trans-Atlantic slave trade was a form of slavery that Indigenous Americans and Africans endured in the New World, most countries with slaves from Africa to Europe DID NOT use this form of servitude – for most people it was WAY too costly, inhumane, and just stupid to treat people like that.
So please dig deeper into the issues to get the WHOLE picture and not just half-truths because this will only continue to reinforce negative stereotypes about black people from misinformation.