There's a nuance here that you are deliberately ignoring. It's not like I'm asking the French to atone for slavery (which is what you seem to be implying); the reality is even worse than that: the French made the Haitians pay 150 Million Francs for their own freedom (an amount 10x larger than what USA paid France for the state of Louisiana).

Think about it: THE FRENCH FORCED THEIR SLAVES TO BUY THEIR OWN FREEDOM FOR 150,000,000 FRANCS!

Please read the gory details here before replying: https://theconversation.com/when-france-extorted-haiti-the-g...

This is what's shameful and the French _should_ be ashamed.