Jean-Jacques Dessalines (portrait by Louis Rigaud).
Posted on 08/02/2018 10:45:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
At the same time that localities across the country are in the process of erasing monuments to Confederates and slave-owners, New York City is preparing to honor a black man who ordered the murder of every white man, woman, and child under his control, resulting in 3,000 to 5,000 race homicides.
Seth Barron reports at City Journal:
In New York City, street co-namings – in which a thoroughfare takes on an additional, ceremonial name in honor of a distinguished figure – rarely generate much fuss, and their approval is typically pro forma. But yesterday, a city council committee voted to co-name a street in Brooklyn after Jean-Jacques Dessalines, emperor of Haiti after the island won its independence from France in 1804.
The council's designation of a two-mile stretch of Rogers Avenue in Brooklyn as Jean-Jacques Dessalines Boulevard sparked some controversy because Dessalines was an enthusiastic advocate of racial murder. Following the defeat of Napoleon's forces and their retreat from Hispaniola, Dessalines named himself Governor-General-for-Life and decided to wipe the slate clean. Heeding the words of his personal secretary Louis Boisrond-Tonnerre, framer of the Haitian Act of Independence, who declaimed, "we should use the skin of a white man as a parchment, his skull as an inkwell, his blood for ink, and a bayonet for a pen," Dessalines ordered the murder of virtually every white man, followed soon afterward by all white women and children, in the new nation. Between 3,000 and 5,000 people were butchered in a few months.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (portrait by Louis Rigaud).
As Barron observes, Haiti's history is bloody and terrible, and there was no shortage of horrendous acts against the slaves brought to Haiti to cultivate sugarcane.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Rodneyse Bichotte, a Brooklyn member of the state assembly who claims direct descent from Dessalines, defended the excesses of the Haitian revolutionaries as a legitimate response to oppression, and said that Dessalines “sought to stop those who were evil.”
She also made pointed reference to “George Washington, the first President of this great mighty state, who sold slaves for a keg of molasses,” and “our beloved Abraham Lincoln, who expressed opposition to racial equality.”
Jumaane Williams, the council member who sponsored the co-naming legislation, said that “most of the world owes a debt to Haiti that has never been repaid.”
Considering the insulting remarks toward Haiti made by the “orange bigot in the White House,” he said, the co-naming of Rogers Avenue is “the least we can do.”
/src on/Those evil French women and children./src off/
Why not, the “main street” of almost any “hood” is named after a woman-abusing man, Michael King, aka Martin Luther King. He hired prostitutes (sometimes white) in order to beat and abuse them.
I just noticed, that the msm keeps making sure to mention Tommy Robinson’s real name, as if he’s being dishonest somehow by choosing to use a “nom de guerre”. But it’s been perfectly fine for decades to allow Michael King (he was also a plagiarist) to go by the name “Martin Luther King”, after Martin Luther, a giant of Protestantism.
After the revolution he placed the population of Haiti into indentured servitude (slavery) on the island’s plantations. He was so beloved by the people that he was assasignated two years later.
Mandela was a terrorist who was rightfully imprisoned. The only bad thing is that the left doesn’t like its terrorists to be imprisoned (ie the Weathermen).
The communist mayor of NYC will give it his resounding approval. Anything to stick it to whitey.
Or “Stalin Estates” (those would be collective housing, you know, five families to one previous one-family home).
Toussaint Louverture says “Hey, what about me!??”
But ignored all the blood of whites-brother against brother-shed on behalf of black slaves.
If only we’d thought this through before one African slave ever stepped foot on American soil. This has been a thorn in the side of this country ever since, the only one we couldn’t seem to work through and finally fix, as the very presence of the descendants of those slaves have been exploited politically ever since, with no sign of let-up, no matter how much “equality” (and now that has turned into black privilege) they get.
John Brown’s plan was to do exactly that.
“She also made pointed reference to “George Washington, the first President of this great mighty state, who sold slaves for a keg of molasses,” and “our beloved Abraham Lincoln, who expressed opposition to racial equality.”
The ethnic cleansing won’t stop with the elimination of Confederate statues.
Yes, but thank goodness he lived in a day where such foolishness got it’s just desserts, and swiftly. It didn’t get celebrated (well, not by anyone except the ancestors of today’s loony left).
Augusta Evans Wilson wrote a book during The War, called “Macaria, Or The Altars Of Sacrifice”. It was very well-written propaganda (in the best sense) for the South. When a certain Union general found that his troops were reading it, and taking it to heart, he ordered that all the copies be confiscated and burned. It was the South’s answer to that book of vile lies, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, only written as Augusta Evans Wilson was nursing soldiers in the South, in the midst of the war.
So the city council of a $hithole city wants to erect a statue of a $hithead from a $hithole country...what’s the big deal?
“it’s just=its just”. Damn autocorrect.
Alinsky
They could have done worse. SHAKA, king of the Zulus murdered an estimated TWO MILLION of his own people in the Natal area NE of South Africa.
This has already started in South Africa
Having met the French, I kind of understand...
Thanks, that’s a book I haven’t heard of before.
It’s domestic fiction, and Evans needs a thesaurus to be read, but the story is engrossing. I like that she takes it for granted that her readers are fairly literate.
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