Haiti's freedom fighters fought alone. No country came to our aid. Outgunned, outnumbered, barefoot, hungry, burdened with 300-years of savage slavery, the people's army fought against inconceivable odds. By January 1, 1804, Haiti's freedom fighters, enmeshed in the Vodun Ancestral soul forces going back to the beginning of time, (Là ¨ Marasa, Là ¨ Mà ² e Là ¨ Mistà ¨) and facing the Euro/US Oligarchs' false gods ensnared in physicality's allure only, had beat back, in combat, the armies of the French, the Spanish, the English, their US mercenaries, a US embargo and the French again, twice. As spiritual beings, it was the spiritual armies within each warrior that allowed Haitians to defeat the barbarity of the insane and abolish slavery against impossible physical odds.
Britain had sent an armada of 218 ships to the Caribbean, and its troops battled the African warriors in Haiti for five years before withdrawing. Napoleon had sent his own armada -- the largest force to ever set sail from France, losing more than 50,000 soldiers and 18 generals. Spain constantly fought, and the US slave-owner interests were always hostile against the Haiti freedom fighters, soaking the Haiti mountains and the Caribbean sea red in the blood of Haitians who, knowing they had endured, for too long, a fate worse than death at the hands of the enslavers, determined to live free or die. Haiti lost 200,000 lives defeating their invasions.
On the occasion of the 208th anniversary of Haiti's Revolution and Independence from European enslavement and colonization, we recall the price paid to create the sacred trust called Ayiti. We remember we are a BLACK nation as defined by Janjak Desalin (Jean Jacques Dessalines), with a Vodun culture from mother Africa. We remember Janjak Desalin, Haiti's liberator and his three ideals.
Having no wish for this sacred trust called Ayiti (Haiti) to be a playground for Northerners. Or its best lands owned and enjoyed by other than the descendants of Desalin's revolution while the indigenous Haitian masses of Haiti are used and exploited, like the rest of Caribbean Island folks, as collaborating political servants to the modern feudal moguls or as mere props, maids, butlers, gardeners, whores and sex receptacles for vacationers, or provide reason for the non-living-wage enslavers and poverty pimping NGOs to feed their greed, Ayiti's struggle for sovereignty, its own entrepreneurial lakou/konbit/viv lifestyle and self-determination continues. (See also, Vodun Konbit and Vodun Lakou.)
Celebrating the Ancestors' honor, humane values, struggles and triumphs, we remember Dessalines' Law and that Blacks are the original peoples on planet earth, including Ayiti and the Americas. We re-MEMBER the Ayiti lives lost to earthquake 2010, crushed under the Bush bi-centennial occupation and now, with UN-imported cholera. We shall fight from one generation to the next to maintain our humanity and dignity against this merciless Western storm. In 2012 the Haiti revolution shall continue to survive, block and expose Avatar Haiti's oppression by NGOs, paid-to-lose-progressives, Haiti opportunists/betrayers, US/UN/and their client nation's false benevolence. Justice lives in the inner spaces Haiti colonizes. Ginen poze.
Thank you to Janjak Desalin and the indigenous Haiti army for our freedom from 300 years of European enslavement and torture won by the Ancestors on January 1, 1804, 208 years ago. Thank you Manman Defile. (Yon oun kokennchenn kouwon pou Defile. Le nou sonje Desalin, nou paka pa we Defile. Kouwon pou Defile.)
Mesi Papa Desalin -- Thank you Father Desalin
(Read Haiti's most famous and well-known poem: "Thank you Father Dessalines by Morisseau-Leroy")
Janjak Desalin rejected the European institutionalized concepts and
established, for the African masses in Ayiti, a nation that rejected
Bourgeois Freedom.
"Bourgeoisie Freedom is where liberty, brotherhood, equality and democracy exist alongside or even in virtually the SAME SPACE as slavery, genocide, exclusion, exploitation, intolerance and tyranny -- notably Black enslavement, exploitation and disenfranchisement in the Americas."
Haiti's founding father, Jean Jacques Dessalines (JanJak Desalin), said, "I Want the Assets of the Country to be Equitably Divided" and for that he was assassinated.
That was the first coup d'etat in Haiti (Ayiti).
The Haitian holocaust -- organized exclusion of the masses, misery, poverty, endless debt and the impunity of the economic elite -- continues with the Feb. 29, 2004 Bush bi-centennial regime change marking the 33rd coup d'etat. Haiti's peoples continue to resist the return of despots, tyrants and enslavers who wage war on the poor majority and Black, contain-them-in poverty through neocolonialism' debts, unfair trade, privatization, UN occupation and foreign "investments." These neocolonial tyrants refuse to allow an equitable division of wealth, excluding the majority in Haiti from power and from sharing in the country's wealth and assets.
Following Janjak Desalin's assassination in 1806, under the long Mulatto and Eurocentric presidencies of Petion (12 years) and Boyer (25 years), the name Janjak Desalin was execrated, declared loathsome, cursed, marginalized and not allowed to be spoken. Neocolonialism had begun in Haiti, would be formalized
with Boyer's "Independence Debt" -- the $22 billion Haiti was forced, at gunpoint to pay to France after already winning their freedom, with the last slave-trade payment made in 1947 to the US, the richest country in the world by Haiti, the most defenseless and poorest.
The legacy of the impunity and undemocratic offenses of this one class and sector of Haitian society, continues to this day.
This Haitian economic elite with their foreign allies cannot accept the principal of one citizen-one vote because it would mean that they would lose their privileges and influence. Hence, the Feb. 29, 2004 coup d'etat and current UN protectorate under neo-Duvalierist Martelly which pursues the interests of foreigners and their black overseers in Haiti. (See, I Pay This Price for You and Video: Haiti the Untold Story.)
On this Jan. 1st Independence Day under occupation, Ezili Danto/HLLN ask all free peoples to demand France pay back the $22billion Independence Debt it forced Haiti to pay at gunpoint. Please sign our on-line petition demanding France pay Haiti back the $22 billion for the Independence Debt.
In addition to the Independence Debt that Haiti was forced to pay to France, back in 1915 during the first US occupation, " Ayiti was the only country, at that time in the Americas, that didn't have its money backed by the US dollar. Our money was backed by gold. Our entire gold reserve was taken away (by the US Marines in 1915) for "safekeeping" we were told and brought to Fort Knox. It has yet to be returned back home. This was 1915. When some white person says "I want to go help the poor people in Ayiti. So I am going to bring a little
bread and a little water for them." Ask them: "Why don't you just ask your government to give them back their gold? " -- Bayyinah Bello
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