Approaching the 200th year of Independence every Haitian should sit back and think of their ancestors. Each one of us should look back and ask: ?In my life time did I do anything the contribute in the emancipation of Haiti and to the evolution of my fellow citizens?? If you thing you did, ask yourself one more question: ?did I do enough??
On 2 January 1893 Frederick Douglass delivered a speech dedicating the Haitian pavilion at the Chicago World's fair. As a recent United States minister and consul general to Haiti, and as an exposition commissioner of the Haitian government, Douglass helped plan the exhibits of the pavilion, which called " a city set upon the hill", after replying to the common stereotype that Haitians were lazy barbarians who devoted their time to voodooism and child sacrifice, Douglass looked back on the previous century of slave emancipation. Born a slave himself in 1818, he had won international fame as an abolitionist orator and writer and had become the most prominent black spokesman and statesman in the New World. Speaking, as he said, for the Negro, Douglass had no difficulty in identifying the central event in the history of emancipation: "We should not forget that the freedom you and I enjoy to-day; that the freedom that eight hundred thousand colored people enjoy in the British West Indies; the freedom that has come to the colored race the world over, is largely due to the brave stand taken by the black sons of Haiti ninety years ago. When they stuck for freedom ?they struck for the freedom of every black man in the world."
I am H Fanini (Herve Fanini-Lemoine). I am looking for answers to help solve the Haitian problematic. I have strong feelings why things are the way they are and I need you to help me redefine being Haitian.
We should find a way to change the Haitian behavior (critize instead of finding solution) and by doing so I think we will be able to challenge American historians in the likes of John Sherman who in his study of ?Authoritarianism and Repression Class on Haiti? said ?Haiti is a bomb that is ticking, that is why it is so vital that social scientists study Haiti. It is the Western Hemisphere's most likely candidate for a Failed Nation-State - the Pentagon's euphemism for Third World anarchy. To understand why so much of the Third World is sliding into hopelessness and violence, we must understand Haiti."
When historians write and teache subject like this it is certain that he or she has all the back up necessary for the success of such research. Such study is usually funded by governmental agencies and major corporations and is designed to justify US foreign policy?s mandate to maintain world domination (they usually feed a group of local citizen the necessary means [money and weapon] to create hysteria).
Aristide is not the Haitian problem; We are.
Herve Fanini-lemoine
03-10-03, 09:30 PM
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