…Prior to the gang coup, Haiti became subservient to the U.S. government’s endless money spigot. In turn, the U.S. government wielded its considerable influence to export an agenda of diversity, equity, and inclusion that endangered the lives of the Haitian people and provided no tangible improvement to their security and well-being…
…”The United States helped the HNP establish a community policing unit geared at gaining public trust and improving community relations,” the State Department’s U.S.-Haiti relations fact sheet says. “In addition, the role of women within the force has been amplified. This is reflected by the robust recruitment efforts to target more women to make the HNP more gender inclusive.”

The message sent clearly through U.S. foreign policy is to adopt the tenets of the DEI religion or risk losing millions of dollars in aid. It is an act of 21st-century imperialism that has been replicated time and again throughout the world. The goal is not stability for Haiti. It is the adoption of far-left ideology

Today, the people of Haiti are suffering the consequences of an imperial hegemon waging an ideological crusade that masquerades as a humanitarian mission. Instead of safety, the “gender inclusive” police force is all but destroyed, and the population lives in a destitute state of fear.

[Emphasis mine; Barry M. – the wages of “Biden”‘s decrepit policies of Transformation in a nutshell…]

(Maybe somebody tell Hillary that sometimes, “It [it doesn’t take] a village”…)

Kate, wasn’t Thomas Sowell adopted by a middle class Aunt and Uncle and raised in a non-impverished section of Baltimore?

No. He was raised by his great-aunt and her grown daughters. They moved from North Carolina, in a house without electricity or running water, to Harlem, when he was 9. The Wiki article says that he and his aunt moved away from the extended family because of some quarrel. He got into Stuyvesant, one of the elite NYC high schools, but due to finances and family quarrels, dropped out.

As I read his autobiography over 6 years ago, I am hazy on the details but in opening it up again, found out that at age 17 he had been assigned to The Home for Homeless Boys, a consequence of a quarrel with his aunt, which was a step up because he didn’t want to live with her and previously she wouldn’t give him permission to leave.
He didn’t stay long at the Home, using his gumption to get out.

Now that I had my freedom, I wanted it to be complete freedom. I could not see reporting to a magistrate for years to come. However, since he had been considerate enough to schedule our first meeting in the evening, because I was working during the day, I thought that I should be considerate enough to tell him that there was no point waiting needlessly for me to show up. I phoned him.

“I’ve decided not to come in for any meetings,” I told the magistrate.

“It’s not up to you!” he said angrily. “The law requires you to come in.”

“I’m not coming in.”

“We can go get you.”

“You can’t find me.”

“We know where you live!”

“I’ve moved.”

“We know where you work!”

“I’ve quit.”

“We can still find you! You’re in violation of the law!”

“There are eight million people in New York,” I said. “You’ll never find me.
There was a long pause on the other end of the line. When the magistrate came back on again, he had a wholly different tone and a quieter voice.

“You’ve really burned your bridges behind you, haven’t you?”

“Yes.”

“Good luck to you, son.”

“Thank you.”

As this thread is about Haiti, I am reminded of something. In engaging in blog comments on Cuba, I saw that time and again a Fidel fan would point out that Cuba wasn’t as badly off as Haiti. The irony of this statement is that before Castro came to power, Cuba was likewise better off than Haiti. Which means that Fidel fans had no grasp of Cuban history. What a surprise. 🙂

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell

Obama lecturing anyone from his podium, his grandfather on his mothers side was a bank vice president

His maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, was the bank vice-president. Grandfather Stanley was a furniture salesman, apparently a man of high dreams and lower achievement. Frank Marshall Davis, the commie, was a friend of Grandpa Stanley.

Good news! If everybody is dumber, nobody is dumb.
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American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the ‘Reverse Flynn Effect

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43469569/american-iq-scores-decline-reverse-flynn-effect/
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It’s an interesting discussion, but the article manages to be quite dumb on its own:
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Regardless, scores are falling, and there’s got to be a reason for the decline. Dworak says it might have something to do with “a shift in perceived values in society.” She offers up the potential explanation that an increase in focus on STEM education may have allowed other areas, like abstract reasoning, to fall by the wayside.
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Huh?

Meanwhile, according to the article, the scores on Spatial Reasoning are going up. Another “shift in perceived values in society” I suppose.

Must be all the video games.