00:02Dear Bobby, I'm writing to let you know that I spent the last ten years of my life making a
00:07movie about the United States occupation of Haiti.
00:12This is a movie that's going to be critical of the ideas you had about Haiti, about Haitians, about race,
00:18about class.
00:19It's going to be critical of the love affair you had with the United States.
00:30What is the image of a Haitian? It is a savage.
00:34It's somebody we need to fear, it's someone we need to control and we need to civilize.
00:38Just like that, Haitians were now spectators in how their country was being run.
00:43I'm always surprised that the term genocide is not used because it was a genocide.
00:483,000 murdered Haitians asked for justice. Give us liberty or give us death.
00:55The Western society that you loved so much did not see you or the people of Haiti as deserving of
01:00better living conditions.
01:01After that, the national production production, the industry privatized, then the country is in a demagogue.
01:08This Haiti that we have today is in part a consequence of the United States occupation.
01:14American companies, from these guys' perspective, Haiti was essentially a place that was just waiting to be kind of taken
01:19over and turned to profit.
01:21What do we want? Haiti's war!
01:24When do we want it? Now!
01:26They don't know. That's what poverty does. It erases dignity. You cannot stand up and say no.
01:31So when you talk to Haitians about the U.S. occupation, what U.S. occupation?
01:36I used to love to listen to the stories about your own childhood, Papi. Somehow, there were never any stories
01:42about the U.S. occupation. How come you never mentioned any of it?
01:46What U.S. occupation is aりました city for the U.S. occupation?
01:49I used to beISTICS as a man of questions.
01:50Well, I know. I've been with this country for a long time.
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