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9671: U.S> and Haiti as democracies
From: MHeinl@aol.com
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M. Saint-Vil says that because of white supremacy in the U.S., the U.S.
should not be considered as having been a democracy for most of its
history.
Even the Athenians, considered to be the originators of Democracy, owned
slaves and restricted suffrage.
Applying his logic to Haiti, which has been under one form of dictatorship
or
another for most of its history and whose governments have systematically
denied the franchise to either Mulatre or Noir segments of the population
based on color, Haiti should be considered the newest (if it can be
considered such at the moment) democracy in the Western Hemisphere, not
the
oldest.