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Response To Haiti Im Sorry
After listening to the song, I agree fully with the lyrics. In present day many people around the world can agree with rudder’s core sentiment, 'Haiti, I'm sorry', even if they do not support his argument: "Toussaint was a mighty man/And to make matters worse he was black/Black and back in the days when black men knew/Their place was in the back/But this rebel, he walked through Napoleon/Who thought it wasn't very nice/And so today my brothers in Haiti/They still pay the price.”
Haiti represents the international opinion of independence, sovereignty and freedom for people of African descent whether it be on the continent itself or anywhere in the Diaspora. Haiti overcame bondage, colonialism, imperialism and all notions of racial inferiority
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