Why Kenyan Police should not lead yet another US occupation of Haiti
Foreign political and economic startegies destroy Haiti
For over two centuries, the history of Haiti has been marred in constant political and economic strife, directly and intentionally instigated by foreign imperial powers, under the pretext of humanitarian intervention.
For the Haitian people, Freedom, which is total independence from foreign powers, is all they desire and need to spur economic growth, peace and stability in their country.
Yet the US alongside European countries are hell bent on denying Haiti this basic, fundamental and principal human right.
Recently, secretary of state Anthony Blinken announced that the U.S. was actively seeking a puppet to lead yet another U.S. invasion of Haiti. Kenya gladly accepted the role of puppet in chief, and agreed to deploy 1000 police officers to Haiti.
The UN Security Council then voted to deploy this bogus U.S. backed, designed and constructed Kenyan led, Multi National invasion of Haiti. Not surprisingly, the proposal only garnered 13 votes in favor, with China and Russia abstaining.
Now, to fully grasp the magnitude and the detrimental nature of repeated invasions of Haiti, we have to go back to the beginning. Immediately! You’ll notice that the constant destabilization, invasions and occupations have always been racially motivated.
Caucasians have been at the forefront of intervening in Haiti’s internal affairs, with the sole purpose of eroding efforts by Haitians to self-govern, self-determine, develop and flourish peacefully as a people and as a nation.
1482
Christopher Columbus is on the west coast of Africa, interacting with Africans and learns of land to the west across the sea.
1492
Columbus and the Spanish arrive on an Island in the western hemisphere looking for gold. He names the island La Isla Espanola (Hispaniola). The Spanish enslave, rape and massacre the natives at alarming rates.
1501
The Spanish opt to enslave Africans from Iberian Peninsula, instead of the native tribes of Hispaniola.
1665
The French have already established themselves on the western part of the Island of Hispaniola. Slaves are being brought in to work on plantations.
1697
After many years of conflict over the Island of Hispaniola between the French and the Spanish, the Treaty of Rijswijk cedes western part of Hispaniola to France. The French call their side Saint Domingue. The Spaniards maintain the name Hispaniola for their part, but name their capital Santo Domingo.
1758
A great Haitian leader called Makandal is executed. He played a significant role as a precursor to the Haitian revolution. He killed thousands of French men and women through his knowledge of botany and toxicology.
1791
Enslaved Africans in Saint Domingue have strong, reliable, visionary and well organized leaders who take time to carefully plan the revolution. Immense networks of communication are created in creole, thus yielding safety, trust and coordination.
In August, the most profound slave revolution in the world begins! Cecile Fatiman, a Mambo, leads a gathering in an alligator swamp. Dutty Boukman is also present. He leads the revolution until his capture and decapitation in November.
1792
The French Assembly sends more troops to Saint Domingue to quell the rebellion.
1793
Toussaint Louverture recruits and trains his people. He rises to the top to lead them through the revolution. Whilst fighting the French, Toussaint also fights against the Spanish occupying Hispaniola and liberates the entire island.
Meanwhile the British and the French go to war. The British aim to seize the colony owing to its wealth. They attempt to quickly suppress the revolution before it spreads to other territories in the Americas, but the Haitians are simply more valiant, tactful and better prepared.
Thousands of British troops, the world’s super power at the time, and the world’s greatest slave trading nation, perish.
1801
More British soldiers attempt to quell the revolution. As soon as they face the Haitian freedom fighters, some run back to their ships in fear. Those that remain on the ground are completely annihilated by the Haitians. The British loss in Haiti is the largest loss of the British army in the Americas.
Toussaint Louvarture writes Haiti’s first constitution, successfully abolishing slavery in 1801. Toussaint completely shifts, alters and shakes the tectonic plates of history. The Haitian constitution is the only one in the world written by former slaves who fought and defeated multiple well-armed European militaries.
The constitution states that no plantations can exist in Haiti and no white people can own land! However, the Haitians accommodate white tribes such as the Polish who were not aggressive to them, though a unique categorization in the constitution.
Napoleon is greatly vexed by Haiti’s constitution and continued victories. Napoleon is determined to keep Black people down.
In fact, in one of his letters to the British cabinet, he writes, “In the course of action that I’ve taken to destroy in Saint Domingue the black government, I have less been guided by considerations of commerce and finance than by the necessity to block forever the forward march of Blacks in the world.”
To Napoleon it is not so much about the economic loss of his most profitable colony, but rather a racially motivated need to keep Africans down by taming Haiti.
A few years back before Napoleon’s campaign of Egypt began in 1798, Count Constantine De Volney remarked after seeing the Sphinx in 1787, “Just think, that this race of black men, today our slave and object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences and even the use of speech.”
1802
Napoleon sends General Charles Leclerc to Haiti. His mission is to bribe Toussaint Louverture with 1 million francs so that he can betray fellow revolutionary leaders, specifically the Great General Dessalines.