| Ape_man |
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September-21-2003
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the more I read about history of countries in the Caribbean, the more I learn about politics. The more I larn about politics, the more I learn about the U.S. government. The more I learn about the U.S. government, the more it saddens me this world we live in.
Haiti 200 years ago. Two hundread years ago, a small country called St. Domingue had a slave revolt that became the only successful slave revolt in the world. The people of African descent were fed up with the treatment and oppression put forth on them by Europeans (French in this case) and fought back. They took over the country and started killing whites by the thousands. They put whites on boats and made them leave the country (I only can guess what they were saying to them as they were kicking them out...I am guessing something like 'you dont have to go home, but you have to get the fuk out of here').
Now it takes no rocket scientist to figure out what this would trigger. One of two things: either the rest of the white world would find a way to isolate this country of strong black men who had the strongest and most established army in the new world at the time or the success story of this country would trigger a domino affect throughout the Americas and blacks would start fighting back and even getting the help of the Haitians. Well the first scenerio is exactly what happened. The country was isolated by the whites, their only allies were Latin Americans who were fighting a similar battle for freedom in South America. They showed their gratitude by shedding their own blood and losing their lives for the Latin Americans to help abolish slavery in countries like Columbia, El Salvador, Equador to name a few. They were unable to get into the black world due to the restrictions put forth by the whites.
Soon after the Latinos in the Southern Americas were liberated with the help, blood, arms and money they received from Haiti, they turned their back on Haiti fearing the Haitians would take over South America and they would be governed by blacks. As it still stands today, 200 years ago, the fear of the non-black world was to be ruled by blacks and eventually have a country of blacks and dark skinned mulattoes.
With no access to their fellow African comorades from the United States, Jamaica, Bahamas, Trinidad, Guiyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Cuba and with the Latin States outcasting them, the Haitians had noone to turn to but each other. The country was never included in any American Organizations so trading with other countries was not an option. The country was also stuck with a bill from France which stated "even though you kicked out asses out of your new found land and whupped us and the English and Spanish on numerous occasions making us look bad to our peers and weakinening our plan to continue to get rich off your new land and hard work, you must pay us millions of dollars before we officially declare you free and even after we do, our other white bredrens like the soon to be the most powerful nation in the world U.S. will still declare you a slave state in order to feel secure with their maltreatment of black people and not feel as if they are breaking human right laws. Oh and we will continue to declare people of color less then human because we are Christians and if we put you as our equal that will go against everything our religion stands for and we'd be basically admitting to working for the devil and burning in hell.
So you add up isolation and the inability to trade with others, continuous treachery in Haiti's politics, racism which is the fabic the world rest on even today, the price of freedom in dollars payed to France and high interest loans taken to pay that price and loans taken against the loans and more loans with more interest taken against loans in a neverending cycle and you will have what we call Haiti today.
Today while we look at Haiti, we can also look at Cuba. Cuba is in a situation similar to what Haiti was in 200 years ago. The difference is they have a true leader who will not bend and in this day and age where there's so many other ways around adversity as opposed to Haiti's beginning, their leader is finding ways to keep the country afloat. The oppressor in this situation is the U.S. The U.S. government plays the same game as I am seeing clearer. The game is the same as the isolation that Haiti faced. If a government does not abide to U.S. standards, then they are quickly embargoed. After the embargo comes the negative progagendas through the U.S. media. The U.S. then turns the government's own people against it by spreading lies that the oppression they face is due to the government that serves them. They do this in hope they can force a civil war and wait until the country is nearly left with nothing and come in as the great white hopes that everyone was hoping for. In Cuba's case this is exactly what they had hoped but as time has proven, they are failing miserably. The government still has control of the country even when the U.S. is offering this so called "freedom" through their safe haven.
Imagine what Cuba would be today minus the embargo all these decades. Cuba has to be the closest we have to Utopia on this planet. It's surrounded by racist filled countries, the U.S. being the biggest, yet still upholds equality for all. African heritage is celebrated in Cuba while shamed in most other countries surrounding it including the first free African nation outside of Africa Haiti where even blacks are ashamed of their true culture.
Fidel Castro is now 77 years old and only time will tell how long this legendary figure and true hero will be able to last as the leader of Cuba. What is to happen after he's gone? will Cuba be the same? will the U.S. eventually get what they want and turn Cuba into a baby USA filled with corruption and whites rule while blacks suffer? Will we have an example left as to what the world could be if we stop beleiving as blacks we are inferior and take initiative to control our own destinies?
Happy Bi-Centennial
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Topic: History in English
