How a US corporation invaded and ...
How a US corporation invaded and occupied a country
Offline Thoughts by Nessa Kwizera
S2 · E47
Mar 3, 2025
01:08:49
Episode notes

Citigroup's DEI initiatives has lasted for a shorter period of time than the company's invasion and occupation of Haiti. Beginning in the 1910s Citigroup, then known as the National City Bank of New York persuaded the US government to invade Haiti. Citigroup understood that by taking control of the country and of its central bank, it could make hundreds of millions of dollars by seizing the island nation's wealth for its own use. In 1915, Citigroup got its wish and the results were better than their wildest imagination could have conceived. Today, Citigroup stands as one of the largest bank in the US by assets. Are we to believe a few decades of appropriating hundred of millions of dollars from the Haitian people had nothing to do with it? Apparently so. Against this background it is no wonder the firm was never truly committed to DEI initiatives ... 

Keywords
corporate culture
Colonisation
colonization
corporate exploitation
accountability
racism
sexism
People of colour
Colonialism
Colonial Money
geopolitics
corporate greed
DEI
Diversity Equity and Inclusion
Affirmative action
Citigroup
Haiti
Barclays
corporate explosion
Lehman Brothers