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Study Hall: The History of Why Haiti Is One of The Poorest Nations On Earth · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 3: Quick question for you, how long do you think this
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  Speaker 3: cool or like Civil War last? And who do you
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  Speaker 3: think is truly behind us? Because I don't believe in coincidences.
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  Speaker 3: Haiti's been under attack for a couple of centuries. You
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  Speaker 3: don't have to go down to conspiracy theory, Aisle, but
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  Speaker 3: who do you think is behind this coordinated attack?
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  Speaker 4: I definitely won't go down conspiracy theory. I'll just bring
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  Speaker 4: just pure facts.
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  Speaker 1: Right. So if you've seen the Marines.
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  Speaker 4: Have occupied Haiti, I think it was nineteen fourteen, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we could keep going with the history. Then we had
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  Speaker 4: the dictator right, we had popping dot right, and we
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  Speaker 4: could see that this pattern of Haiti all the way
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  Speaker 4: today is Haiti has been failed in policy making through
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  Speaker 4: corruption of the politics that's constantly influenced right by outside forces.
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  Speaker 4: And what that means is they're not in the level
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  Speaker 4: of negotiating. They're always on the level of greed, so
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  Speaker 4: they think of greed before the actual people.
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  Speaker 1: Right. So again I always say this, and I say
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  Speaker 1: this strongly.
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  Speaker 4: Right, if I need help in my house, I have
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  Speaker 4: to be able to fix my house, and I have
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  Speaker 4: to weave out certain players.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing is, I feel.
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  Speaker 4: That the people of Haiti, through the diaspora through us
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  Speaker 4: have to get stronger and making certain decisions on who
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  Speaker 4: the actors are going to be moving forward, sort of
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  Speaker 4: like the Twilight Zone. It's a constant episode where you know,
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  Speaker 4: we know something weird it's going to happen at the
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  Speaker 4: very end. And this has been the pattern of Haiti.
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  Speaker 4: And understand is the legislation pieces the most important. I
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  Speaker 4: think that as we move towards Haiti, we have to
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  Speaker 4: get to the center. And what I mean by that
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  Speaker 4: everything for Haiti thus far have been a left movement, like.
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  Speaker 1: A super left movement in the House of Representative.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know too many Republicans that ever talk about
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  Speaker 4: had So I think that we have to get in
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  Speaker 4: the center because the policies are still being shaped in
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  Speaker 4: parts of it out of Washington, d C. Right, So
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  Speaker 4: I look at us within the United States, and I
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  Speaker 4: say that within North America, I feel that we can
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  Speaker 4: do much more by looking at Congress and looking at
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  Speaker 4: who's the ambassadors of Haiti?
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  Speaker 1: What are these laws? Right?
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  Speaker 4: So you have like Alligar families that leave Haiti and
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  Speaker 4: go to Washington, D C. And they are the ones
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  Speaker 4: that help shape policies. So how do we start participating
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  Speaker 4: in that? So again, I think that it's a contribution
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  Speaker 4: of us here in the stage. I think it's a
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  Speaker 4: contribution of you know, powers that have a lot of
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  Speaker 4: money want to see Haiti in this position.
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  Speaker 1: Why a few things.
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  Speaker 4: I think that if we get to act together, one
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  Speaker 4: of the things that we can focus on is our
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  Speaker 4: natural resources.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So, despite what they told you about Haiti, I sent
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  Speaker 4: you all two articles. I think one is the New
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  Speaker 4: York Times. They'll give you a perspective of where we at.
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  Speaker 4: Not that I always believe what's in the New York Times,
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  Speaker 4: but this one is actually accurate.
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  Speaker 1: And then the second one was.
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  Speaker 4: A Forbes article, which is interesting to show you, amongst
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  Speaker 4: all the disaster, how much natural resources that we have.
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  Speaker 1: So these are some of the things that we do have.
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  Speaker 4: And again Haiti high elevated land, we do have a
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  Speaker 4: constant you know, traffic of constant drugs moving around. It's
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  Speaker 4: like the babysitting capitol cocaine right now in the Caribbean.
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  Speaker 1: So these are some of the things that we have
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  Speaker 1: to fight.
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  Speaker 5: So, yes, you mentioned the New York Times article, so
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  Speaker 5: I want to reference it because obviously anybody knows that
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  Speaker 5: Ernie Lisias is a financial platform, right, So the history
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  Speaker 5: of Haiti is extremely interesting when it comes to finances, right,
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  Speaker 5: So I want to just kind of go down a timeline.
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  Speaker 5: So seventeen ninety one, Haiti becomes the first country, in
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  Speaker 5: the only country actually in world history to ever successfully
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  Speaker 5: be formed from a slavery volt. Right, they beat the French,
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  Speaker 5: overthrew the French slaves slave re volt and became an
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  Speaker 5: independent nation. Now a lot of people were not aware
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  Speaker 5: that as a result of them gaining independence, they were
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  Speaker 5: forced to pay France reparations. From my understanding, Napoleon they
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  Speaker 5: put the ships at the shore, and they were really
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  Speaker 5: kind of at you know, is one of these situations
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  Speaker 5: where they couldn't really go about not having to strike
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  Speaker 5: that deal. So for their independence, they struck that deal
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  Speaker 5: as far as the reparations, So the reparations lasted for generations,
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  Speaker 5: and they said billions billions of dollars were actually drained
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  Speaker 5: out of the Asian economy and pumped into France, which
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  Speaker 5: actually helped build the Eiffel Tower. This is part of
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  Speaker 5: the New York Times article. And then they actually talk
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  Speaker 5: about Wall Street benefiting from Haiti as well as far
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  Speaker 5: as you had mentioned that the occupation. One of the
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  Speaker 5: companies that they said is actually you know, one of
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  Speaker 5: the drum beats and started as a result of that
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  Speaker 5: became City Group obviously fortune five hundred company, one of
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  Speaker 5: the biggest companies in the world. Right, and then years
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  Speaker 5: later President when the president actually had started a call
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  Speaker 5: for reparations from France and he was ousted as a result.
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  Speaker 5: And then you talk about, like you said, you know,
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  Speaker 5: politicians being murdered and unstable government. So when you see
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  Speaker 5: statistics of like you know, it's it's similar as far
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  Speaker 5: as okay, we talk about the wealth gap in America, right,
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  Speaker 5: and we say, okay, well, black people only own one
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  Speaker 5: percent of the wealth. Well, there's a historical reason why
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  Speaker 5: that's happening. It's not just that people are lazy and
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  Speaker 5: that they're just incompetent. You had the Freeman Bank, you
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  Speaker 5: had redlining, you had Jim Crow. So there's hundreds of
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  Speaker 5: years that have got us to this point. The same
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  Speaker 5: with haities. Look at Haiti. You say, okay, well, Haiti
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  Speaker 5: is the poorest country in this hemisphere and they're very
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  Speaker 5: low on the economic spectrum. Well that's for a reason, right,
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  Speaker 5: you have when you had to pay reparations to one
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  Speaker 5: of the most powerful countries in the world for one
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  Speaker 5: hundred and fifty years and your natural resources was taken
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  Speaker 5: from you and you was occupied. Well, now you can
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  Speaker 5: kind of see why there's such level of instability in
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  Speaker 5: the country. So I wanted to just kind of give
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  Speaker 5: that historical timeline and I'll let you talk about it
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  Speaker 5: as well, Cleft, because I think it's important for people
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  Speaker 5: to understand the history because a lot of times, like
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  Speaker 5: I said, the media just portrays now, but they never
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  Speaker 5: talk about how and why we actually got to this point.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and again this is why I pointed towards
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  Speaker 4: the New York Times article.
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  Speaker 1: But let's break it down in a nutshell.
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  Speaker 4: This first Black Republic basically shut down Napoleon, which is
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  Speaker 4: the greatest army at the time of the world. Think
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  Speaker 4: of it like Napoleon was its own Roman Empire, if
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  Speaker 4: that makes sense. And in this process I call it
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  Speaker 4: the extortion fee, right, because this guy's powerful, be like, yo,
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  Speaker 4: y'all don't want me.
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  Speaker 1: To come back.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna keep these boats here, y'all gonna keep paying me,
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  Speaker 4: and something interestedn't happen. Right, So a leader roles. Years later, right,
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  Speaker 4: a leader rises and he goes, Okay, I want France
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  Speaker 4: to start to pay reparation. And in this process, the
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  Speaker 4: leader gets out like, now that ain't gonna happen. What
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  Speaker 4: I want us to do is we got to look
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  Speaker 4: at how do we move forward?
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  Speaker 1: Right? And a lot of people be like, yo.
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  Speaker 4: Man, you're so optimistic, man, Like, how can you stay
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  Speaker 4: like that?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 4: So for me, I would say one of the things
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  Speaker 4: that keep me optimistic is having a chance to to
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  Speaker 4: fly to South Africa and spending some time with the
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  Speaker 4: late great Nelson Mandel and having those one or ones
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  Speaker 4: with him and you know, picking his brain.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And then one of the things he said was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, once we stopped the dream stop.
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  Speaker 4: And I feel that in the position that we're in today,
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  Speaker 4: this exchange of information that we're doing right now is
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  Speaker 4: part of where the future of Haiti is going to
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  Speaker 4: head into, right, because to get Haiti out of what
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  Speaker 4: it's in right now, it's no difference than when I.
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  Speaker 1: Was doing the the.
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  Speaker 4: The Tia thing and we was talking about fifty four
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  Speaker 4: percent of black and browns don't have a retirement plan, right,
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  Speaker 4: they don't know where they're gonna land, right. So we
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  Speaker 4: find this these informations subject to what country you in
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  Speaker 4: in different but different actors, but stories are always similar, right,
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  Speaker 4: so as we move forward, the focus has to be
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  Speaker 4: how do we get back to economical freedom?
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  Speaker 1: And what I've learned with Nelson Mandelan's.
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  Speaker 4: As he's speaking, to get back to economical freedom has
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  Speaker 4: to be a unification.
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  Speaker 1: They can't be a unification.
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  Speaker 4: With Black Americans and Haitians, which I don't even use
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  Speaker 4: the words. I just call all of us Africans FYI,
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  Speaker 4: But I use these words to tell you they can't
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  Speaker 4: be a connection.
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  Speaker 1: Hunt. There's a real connection with.
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  Speaker 4: Africa, right because Africa is US and it's the next
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  Speaker 4: superpower where everything is going. So now you have these
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  Speaker 4: kids that are trading very fast. As y'all can see,
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  Speaker 4: Nigeria is just up and and up and in and
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  Speaker 4: in the in the stock market if you follow different
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  Speaker 4: things that's going in going on this with my Marcus
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  Speaker 4: Gardie eyes, I've just been looking at it and been saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: the way out of this is going to be what.
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  Speaker 1: Is the trade for trade?
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  Speaker 4: What is going to make people feel that Haitians are valuable,
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  Speaker 4: like we valuable, like we bring something to the world stage. Right,
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  Speaker 4: we Black Americans, we're valuable as a whole. We bring
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  Speaker 4: something to the world stage. And I think that that's
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  Speaker 4: going to take that unification of all of us, and
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  Speaker 4: then saying that to get to economical freedom, we have
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  Speaker 4: to be in control of our natural resources. Again, this
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  Speaker 4: is where it lies. Our natural resources will allow us
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  Speaker 4: to be able to create trade for trade and focus
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  Speaker 4: on exporting and also growing in our own country so
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  Speaker 4: that we don't have to rely on rice stock and
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  Speaker 4: the different things.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Focus with companies that are willing to bring machineries into
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