“On the plane to and from Haiti, I noticed that an incredible number of passengers, identifiable with the logos on their t-shirts, were associated with Christian churches or charities.”
“Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat delivers an emotionally charged closing lecture and reading. She unsuccessfully fought back tears when evoking the fate of the more than 200,000 Haitians made stateless by a 2013 ruling of the Dominican Republic Supreme Court. These Haitians are hunted down, persecuted, and deported. Danticat’s tears reminded me of her novel, The Farming of Bones (1998), where she tells the stories of Haitians hunted down and slaughtered by General Rafael Trujillo in 1937.”
“When in 1801 the Haitians proclaim an anti-slavery constitution, U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, while branding Toussaint Louverture and his army as cannibals, spent an inordinate amount of time and energy trying to stop any flow of information between Haiti and the United States. According to the authors of Africans in America, America’s Journey through Slavery (1999), Jefferson considered the Haitian revolution as an “act of banditry and its leaders as nothing more or less than ‘property that has illegally seized a freedom it does not deserve.” For Jefferson and his fellow American slave owners, Haiti’s proximity ignites the fear of a contamination of their own plantations by the freedom virus coming from Haiti–the dangerous Haitian precedent could have percussions in Virginia, Carolina, or even Georgia.”
“The memory of Sam Sharpe (1801-1832), a National Jamaican Hero who led the rebellion of 1831, dominates the film. Fourteen whites died and more than 500 slaves were killed, mostly by white planters or after trials. Sharpe was hanged, but the rebellion ultimately played a critical role in the abolition of slavery.”
“On February 7, 1986, the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier was followed by the large-scale return of exiles, among whom were numerous university professors, professionals, and business people. The returnees became engaged in the creation of associations for the defense of human rights, research and training centers devoted to development. These humanitarian undertakings led to a new increase in nongovernmental organizations. In the 1990s, thousands of Haitians use freedom boats to escape the nightmare of their country and to head for the American dream. The shipwrecks on the high seas brought about losses of human life that turned the tide of global public opinion. The closing of American borders saw an intensification of action on the part of numerous North American NGOs and the arrival of new NGOs. With the “American dream” inaccessible, NGOs were delegated to bring the much-desired Paradise into the Haitian countryside.”
“The Agony of the Congo (1961): « During the year preceding the granting of Independence, curious things have been happening. The gold reserve disappeared, on the excuse that it was the backing for the pensions and compensation of displaced Belgians.”
Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat delivers an emotionally charged closing lecture and reading. She unsuccessfully fought back tears when evoking the fate of the more than 200,000 Haitians made stateless by a 2013 ruling of the Dominican Republic Supreme Court. These Haitians are hunted down, persecuted, and deported.
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So, what is your point? Are you blaming everything on the U.S? Hate America crap? I don’t think so. Who chopped down all the trees in Haiti and made the Island west of the Dominican Republic a wasteland, depleted of all natural resources? Many times the blame is much closer to home. There is a spiritual darkness over Haiti, Voodoo, cannibalism, necklacing? It’s very dark, spiritual wickedness in high places. Exporting that darkness may amount to an unrealized risk, a negative supernatural force that is unwilling to yield or withdraw.
Haiti is now a lawless state much like Somalia. We tried to help them too but Blackhawk Down ended that endeavor. Then there is the tragedy of Ukraine and the Middle East. Damn! But we must alway provide strong unwavering support to Israel, the only state that is not a theocracy or a monarchy. The Bible warns us about that.
Maybe we should investigate the leftist Catholic nuns and priests in Latin America, pushing their Marxist Liberation Theology (precursor to CRT), which led to the fall of Honduras, Nicaragua, etc.
I think we need to take care of America first, before we become a lawless state too. The Bible says we should be kind to sojourners but we must never forget Genesis 16:12. Just my $0.02. Somebody’s gotta say it.