Here Is What "S**thole Countries" Did for the US
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Here Is What "S**thole Countries" Did for the US

Take notes, Mr. President, because you are dead wrong.

Lisa Woolfson
Jan 15, 2018
University of Maryland College Park
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Here Is What "S**thole Countries" Did for the US
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Pictured: a beautiful Haitian beach

On Thursday, in an off the cuff comment to legislators in an oval office meeting about immigration, Trump said that countries like Norway were free to send immigrants to the US but why should people from "shithole" countries like Haiti and every country in Africa come be allowed to emigrate here?

Well besides for this comment being incredibly racist because of the mostly non-white population in these places, it's also incredibly ignorant. People from all of these countries make and have made many contributions to the United States that we don't even think about.

Without the nation of Haiti, we would never have...

1. W.E.B. Dubois, a civil rights leader that's sure to be in every American textbook, had Haitian parents

2. Major league baseballs (handsewn in Haiti for years)

3.The movie "Black Hawk Down" (actress Gabrielle Casseus is in it)

4. The television shows "The Jeffersons" or "The Cosby Show" (Haitian born actress Josephine Premice)

5. The first Catholic school for black children, which was founded in Baltimore by Elizabeth Clarisse Lange

(Courtesy of "Journal of the Louverture Project")

Without the many nations that make up Africa we would never have...

1. Mathematics. Even the first mathematical textbooks started in Africa! Over 35,000 years ago

2. Important medical procedures like the autopsy, fixing of broken bones, bullet removal, and brain surgery and that's just to name a few.

3. Speech-according to research, the first words ever spoken by humans were spoken in Africa

4. Tools such as steam engines, copper and iron tools and weapons, and nails were all invented in Africa.

5. Boats because Africans were the first ones to invent tools for navigation

6. Religion as research suggests that Africans were the first to worship gods and have a religion

(Courtesy of "Atlanta Black Star")


It is undeniable that America would not be the country it is today without the incredible inventions and people from these sh**hole countries. Next time, Mr. Trump should do a little research before putting down a whole continent.

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