Part 2: January 1, 2008 – Another Haitian independence day under occupation

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PART II

The Boca Raton regime that Canada, the United State and France upheld instead of Haiti’s democracy, from 2004 to 2006, is known only for its barbarity, corruption; its signing of massive loan packages to the World Bank, IMF and other such international financial institutions, in preparation for the massive privatization being legitimized under the current Preval puppet government. But such economic tyranny and human rights nightmares and the occupation that Haiti lives under today appears to be what the Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier refers to, in the release, as “..economic opportunity, improve security” and the advancement of Canada’s “fundamental values of freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.”

In this “New World”, according to such Canadian “fundamental values” it seems that tyranny, occupation and economic exploitation of Haiti’s poor is defined as “progress” that is worthy of international support – of Canada, US, France, UN security council, OAS and European Union support.

Thus, for Dessalines’ descendants, these zombie’s mutterings are meaningless.

Ayi Kwei Armah further explains what’s to be done with such predators and their blan-peyi Haitian lackeys, for they are dead: “Leave them in their graves. Whatever waking form they wear, the stench of death pours ceaseless from their mouths. From every opening of their possessed carcasses comes death’s excremental pus. Their soul itself is dead and long since putrefied. Would you have your intercourse with these creatures from the graveyard? “

NO. Leave the dead in their graves, speak your righteous message not to these “long rotted ash…” but address your message, my people, to the living and look only to Dessaline’s descendants worldwide. His legacy is liberty. Speak to liberty lovers. Empower the world’s lovers of liberty.

On freedom day, raise up peaceful co-existence in the name of Dessalines, the father of Haitian independence, author of the concept that a “Haitian” is a “freedom lover,’” no matter his or her skin color or from which branch of that Black woman, mother of all the races – our ultimate root, he/she heralds from.

Remember that “Black” as redefined by Dessalines means a “lover of Liberty.” Therefore any person, of whatever fabricated social “race,” who loves freedom and liberty is Black, not white in the pejorative “tyrant” sense. For, to Haitians, any one who is a tyrant, no matter what his or her skin color, is deemed “white” , a blan, a stranger, not family.

Black is also, to Dessalines and his knowledgeable descendants, the color and texture of liberty.

It is because of this Dessalines’ philosophy and psychology that Haitian beliefs are marginalized and why Haitians are forever marked for destruction and annihilation. Our concepts, based on the observable facts of our history, experiences and existence, threatens white supremacy and today’s world order, to its core. That is why most people in this world only know the lies told and retold about Haiti, about Haiti’s culture, its psychology, philosophy.

I’ve written in the “Red, Black, Moonlight monologue series” that, “Reaching for Black, keeps me from bursting into flames.”

For, it is that “reaching” which defines and gives texture to our struggle.

Our independence and freedom is divine and “as black as primordial space; as black as the firmament from which creation sprung…the color of carbon, the key atom found in all living matter. All who are “Haitian” carry particles of a culture, where every vibratory energy comes out of the dark melanin seed, that Haiti and Africa owns, which captures light and reproduces itself and various hues and shades, full of multidimensional patterns, disparate energies, eternal seeds… “

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“Kanga Mundele”, said the spirit of Ezili Dantò that mounted that great mambo Cecile Fatiman, on August 14, 1791 at Bwa Kayiman, the ceremony that begun the great Haitian Revolution.

Kanga Mundele means “kill the stranger” in Kikongo, “kill the stranger within”, “amongst us.” – and also meant long live freedom.

* On January 1, 2008, we remember and celebrate the road traveled. Humbled by the courage of the Haitians who left us a freedom legacy to live; a liberated psychology to help free Africa’s children from all sorts of colonization, a philosophy to extend.

On Independence Day, January 1, 2008, we remember, respect and honor our deep roots even as we continue to face Officialdoms’ bitter lies, its white despotism and racists disdain. Its lies and half-truths, such as written above by the likes of “The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs”, or, as being widely espoused by Canada’s counterparts in Washington, Paris and by their various corporate media chums, who continually call Haitians “fouled up”, “failed,” “gangsters” while in sum, calling their imposed UN protectorate “progress;” its bloody, pillaging reign “partnership” and its massive slaughtering, raping and incarceration of Haiti’s peoples “improved security.”

Said internationals are quick to find and pronounce, to all and sundry, that today’s occupied Haiti, (which is suffering more misery, more hunger, more kidnappings, more dependency, more indebtedness than it ever did under the duly elected rules of Haiti’s free governments from 1994 to 2004) is experiencing “progress… in terms of security and in the political arena.”

In fact, Canada’s Foreign Minister further announces in the press release, that Haiti is today being “led by elected officials dedicated to rebuilding their country on the foundations of good governance and the rule of law.” Said Officialdom has no problem with such a hypocritical pronouncement when, the bare truth is that their created puppet Preval government is chock full of, at least ninety percent of the corrupt 2004 Boca Raton regime imposters and international Haitian sympathizers, Black overseers, who could never, EVER have been freely elected or appointed in Haiti, if not for the foreign-sponsored 2004 coup d’etat and the 9,000 UN troops holding the Haitian masses from expressing their wishes by the point of a UN gun.

Some of these international technocrats, like Ray Joseph, the Haitian Ambassador in Washington and as practically the entire Haitian Foreign Ministry were imposed on Haiti in 2004 and still remain in the positions they took by force to this day. The others took their positions by-selection in the corrupt UN/US-run Haiti elections since 2004. Elections run by computerized digital machines in a country without electricity. Elections run by digital machines owned by the rich elites, with ballots printed by the coup d’etat Boulos family and counted by their own illegal electoral council.

Ours, has been a long struggle.

It started for us-Haitians in 1503 when the first kidnapped African captive set his enchained foot on what is now known as Haitian soil.

We continue to face the guns, greed and odious cruelties of the white man. But we also continue to celebrate our victories against him.

On January 1, 2008, Haitians shall come together to stand tall within ourselves against the Empire’s lies and stigmas. We’ve survive. We know who we are, what we are and that we’ve got roots to keep us strong. Our history of survival is our greatest asset and rallying point. We exists still because we have ALWAYS defined ourselves, extended ourselves, given value to ourselves, our life, strengths, ancestors, history and heroes, when the world’s greatest armies, medias and superpowers have not.

In fact, White Officialdom and its Haitian blan-peyi lackeys are united solely in their refusal to recognize Haiti’s value, its sovereignty and right to self-determination.

Death, imprisonment, suffering and sacrifice may be our perennial plight, in this, Bartholomew De La Casas’ “New World.” Yet, try as the pathetic likes of these Foreign Ministers may, to tell Haitians what we are “worth’”, how exclusionary elections are “our due”, or, that Preval’s puppet government’s reign is “progress” and repression is liberty, he fools and shames only himself and his restavek Haitian lackeys.

As flesh and blood, endowed by our creator with the right to life, we claim the natural right to just retribution, to self-defense, to equal application of international laws governing human and civil rights.

For we are certain, if not in this lifetime, then in our children or great-grandchildren’s time, the day will come when these fiendish Officialdoms of this world will answer for the Haitian lives they’ve helped to destroy down the centuries and generations. The day will come, as surely as the moonlight outside my window heralding that tomorrow is already here.

Every tomorrow will be our Independence Day. Every tomorrow we-Haitians shall extend our independence blocking Euro/US re-colonization, its modern day applications and their new rods of empire (i.e., endless foreign debt, massive privatization and elections-under-occupation). Every tomorrow, even if placed in jail like the men and women of Site Soley and labeled bandit “chimeres”, or in exile, or contained in poverty, we won’t relent but shall recount our glorious history of struggle ad nauseum, until no doubt remains that we are indeed Dessalines’ descendants.

On January 1, 2008 my people, leave the dead in their graves and look to Dessaline’s descendants. Gather the living un-coopted Haitians, drink soup joumou, call on Marijan, Kapwa Lamò, Desalin and celebrate our living history. Keep making that history. Remember and celebrate the dignity of all those incarcerated right now in Haiti because they stood up against this occupation, remember the Ezili Danto goodness of Haiti’s women warriors, remember our roots, our struggle – its vast glory.

Those roots are OUR living way, our legacy, our path to freedom and our light that’s impossible to lose. It is that remembrance that calls us, animates us, keeps us moving through these unspeakable sufferings and griefs.

On our Independence Day, January 1, 2008, and on every tomorrow to come, we shall forget the dead living amongst us, sucking our blood like the vampires they are. These parasites have lost sight of Haiti’s origins. Its sanctity, divinity and goodness. Its gift of liberty and fraternity when all around the Europeans settlers were bringing only depravity.

As Ayi Kwei Armah writes in his book, Two Thousand Seasons:

“ A people losing sight of origins are dead. A people deaf to purposes are lost. Under fertile rain, in scorching sunshine there is no difference: their bodies are mere corpses, awaiting final burial.”

Dessaline’s descendants hold a sacred trust. Kanga Mundele!

Our mission is to live free not to live as dead zombies, corporate or UN sell-outs, servile to gluttonous and inhuman greed. Despite 505 years of grief, the African who became “Ayisyen” (Haitian) in the land of the Taino/Arawaks are still here – standing on truth, living without fear. Nou La! We don’t get much press. But we’re here! Nou la!

Ezili Dantò Li led li la December 31, 2007

Forwarded by the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network