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<p>Haiti's government, while controlled by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his party, spent $7.3 million between 1997 and 2002 lobbying the U.S. government as more than 80 percent of the country was impoverished.</p> <p>During this time, U.S. funding to Haiti — a typical measure of lobbying success — declined, and its economy foundered, fueling his opposition's successful effort to depose Mr. Aristide last week for the second time in 15 years.</p>

I Was Kidnaped"--Aristide "I was kidnaped by U.S. Marines and forced to leave Haiti," Jean-Bertrand Aristide told Congresswoman Maxine Waters in a phone call Monday morning from the Central African Republic. "I did not resign." Photo: President Aristide lofting flag during bicentennial celebration. Waters said that Aristide told her that the U.S. "completed the coup and forced him out of office." Speaking to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, Waters said that Aristide sounded angry and outraged about what had happened. "He said he and his wife were surrounded by military personnel and not allowed to make calls. ‘It's like being...

Back when NPR and other news outlets were reporting that New Orleans had “dodged the bullet” on hurricane Katrina I made an ill-conceived joke in The Corner about how the Superdome was going to hell-in-a-hand basket. I wrote: ATTN: SUPERDOME RESIDENTS [Jonah Goldberg] I think it's time to face facts. That place is going to be a Mad Max/thunderdome Waterworld/Lord of the Flies horror show within the next few hours. My advice is to prepare yourself now. Hoard weapons, grow gills and learn to communicate with serpents. While you're working on that, find the biggest guy you can and when...

ANOTHER AMERICA-HATER HEARD FROM (Friday, 6:30 pm, EDT) Randall Robinson wrote a book entitled "The Debt – What America Owes Blacks." That cracks the door on Robinson's entitlement mentality. Now the door has been thrown wide open by Robinson's contribution to the leftist Huffington Post on the Internet. Read what Randall Robinson has to say here. Then come back to read my response. Robinson is angry about the delayed response to the tragic situation in New Orleans. We all are, but Robinson goes too far. He calls America a "monstrous fraud." Even though I might be able to understand his...

Randall Robinson, an activist and Harvard-educated lawyer whose past activities include founding the TransAfrica organization, encouraging black Americans to sue for reparations, and then loudly emigrating in protest from the U.S. to the Caribean island of St. Kitts, now claims that black Hurricane victims are "eating corpses to survive." A quick scan of major news networks and a Google search on the phrase "hurricane victims eating corpses to survive" uncovers absolutely no support for this outrageous claim. While that's hardly the final word when it comes to proof, it's more evidence than Robinson offers for his bizarre claim. Ordinarily, I...

<p>It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.</p> <p>I am hopeless. I am sad. I am angry against my country for doing nothing when it mattered.</p>

March 25th, 2004-Randall Robinson, who accompanied Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on his historic return trip back to the Caribbean, reveals that National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice is telling the Jamaican government if Aristide is not immediately expelled from the country and anything happens to American forces in Haiti, consequences would be exacted against Jamaica in full force by the U.S. [includes rush transcript. See below.] National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice has refused to appear before the 9-11 Commission to give sworn testimony. But she has been very busy on a different front: The situation in Haiti. Rice and other officials...

Bush administration denies forcing Aristide's retreat01:29 PM CST on Monday, March 1, 2004Associated Press WASHINGTON – The White House and Pentagon on Monday dismissed allegations that Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was kidnapped by U.S. forces eager for him to resign and flee into exile. With U.S. military forces already on the ground in the Caribbean nation and more on the way, chief presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said, "It's nonsense, and conspiracy theories do nothing to help the Haitian people move forward to a better more free, more prosperous future." At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld also vehemently denied...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Veteran activist Randall Robinson said Friday that Secretary of State Colin Powell has become "an immoral traitor to his race" based on his policies toward Haiti and other black majority countries. Robinson made headlines in 1994 when he staged a hunger strike to protest the Clinton administration's policy of repatriating Haitians fleeing the military dictatorship then in power. Powell "is the most powerful and damaging black to rise to influence in the world in my lifetime," said Robinson, himself an African-American. Robinson said Powell has participated in the deconstruction of Haiti's first democracy and "deliberately destroyed the...

Randall Robinson, the godfather of the reparations movement, has finally taken his criticism of this country to its logical conclusion: he has moved out of the United States.  Robinson’s new book, Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from his Native Land, recounts his growing disillusionment with his native land, and his decision to leave it and escape to the tiny Caribbean island of St. Kitts. Here, Robinson insists, a racist white majority persecutes blacks at home and crafts an imperialistic foreign policy to kill Arabs abroad. But in his new island home, people are friendly, crime is virtually...

Society in America today is like a 100-yard dash in which two groups are running, said lawyer, lobbyist and civil rights activist Randall Robinson. "One group runs, and the second group, you shoot them in the knees and say, 'Run! You can catch up!' But you can never catch up because great crimes have never been addressed," he said. The crime is 246 years of slavery that has yet to be remedied, said Robinson, the keynote speaker of the Black History Month Celebration that culminated with last night's event in Page Auditorium. The speech was sponsored by the Black Student...

A lot of white people are upset with the reparations movement. The reparations movement is an effort by people of African descent to be remunerated, compensated or indemnified for labor that our ancestors performed for white land- and business owners during the period of slavery in America. Let us not deceive ourselves. Nothing the government or the people of America now possess, or are even willing to share, will come close to making up for the enormity of the moral, psychological, physical, cultural, economic and spiritual degradation that has been foisted on its black citizens. Here is an attempt to...

<p>No amount of money can compensate for slavery, said Randall Robinson, one of the nation's leading black advocates of slave reparations.</p> <p>But not acknowledging the full impact of its existence in America, he said, is only a snippet of the problem.</p>

The United States is a country in denial, according to Randall Robinson, author of "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks." Robinson, a proponent of reparations for slavery, told about 200 people Thursday night at the University of Florida's University Auditorium that the country has not acknowledged the history of slavery or the widespread repercussions of oppression. His speech was part of a two-day conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Relations, an organization affiliated with UF's Levin College of Law. "It is as if slavery never happened," Robinson said. The wounds of oppression, he said,...