Abraham Lincoln deported over 400 enslaved Blacks from the U.S. to a then, fairly isolated Island of Haiti called - Ile a Vache. But the US government did not inform the Haitian authorities of their use of Haitian territory, so Haitian authorities didn't know the US Blacks were there or needed help... Many starved to death on Ile a Vache. (See, Lincoln and Haiti: The African American Exodus that Didn’t Happen and, more recently Haiti (Ile a Vache) island unscathed by quake, but tourists stay away .)
Blacks starving in Haiti, due to US government policy, is well illustrated by recent empty Clinton apology and the continuing "HOPE" act legislation mandating sweatshops at .38 cents an hour wages, dumping of Miami rice and other such "aid" and "reforms" for Haiti by the "do-gooders." As a result of these US free trade policies, 830,000 rural Haitian jobs were lost and hundreds of thousands of Haitians were forced into the capital looking for work, where enventually they would meet up with Jan 12 at 4:53. The Island pillaged and plundered, the people die and die as a result. Navassa Island is a perfect example.
Navassa Island in Haiti was a fairly uninhabited Haitian island, not much different from Ile a Vache back then. The US simply stole it from Haiti in 1857 for its guano resources, and mining took place between 1865 and 1898.
"Guano phosphate was a superior organic fertilizer that became a mainstay of American agriculture in the mid-19th century. In 1889 the island's actual operation passed to the Navassa Phosphate Company of Baltimore, Maryland. The Navassa Phosphate Company mined Navassa with African-American laborers."
African-American blood was spilled on that Island also, not just Black Haitian blood. For more, go to - Navassa Island Incident 1889-1891 )
Today, as President Obama sits in the White House, the US is busy taking Haiti's deep water ports, strategically located islands and the mainland. Period, no comma. And the beat goes on, on and on... La Gonave, Ile de la Tortue, Labadie beaches, Mole St. Nicolas, Miragoane ports and shores, Jacmel...Blacks are NOT supposed to own prime lands much less oceanfronts, seas, islands and mountains after mountains.
The road to justice is long for Ayisyen.
The people of Haiti are fighting against formidable odds, as all around them in the Caribbean exist only U.S. or Euro colonies, client states and territories, also hostile to Haiti's Afrocentricity and refusal to be quietly re-colonized.
The tiny nation of Haiti has valiantly struggled, for over two centuries, for its sovereignty, its own language, Vodun sacred values and most importantly to not end up a colonial enterprise, like the Dominican Republic and as the rest of the Caribbean islands where mostly Eurocentric-black overseers manage their Black and brown populations for the benefit of the white superpower nations. And where the Island peoples are set off as props in their own homeland - maids, butlers, prostitutes, gardeners, entertainers and housekeepers - servicing the foreign-owned white tourist industry while their masses live in abject poverty and total deprivation; their island resources exported to feed and further enrich said same foreign white countries as in the times of slavery. (Media Lies and the Real Haiti News, 2007; Does the Western economic model and calculation of economic wealth fit Haiti, fit Dessalines' idea of wealth distribution? NO! ; Haiti's Riches: Interview with Ezili Dantò on Mining in Haiti; Haiti's Riches and, Did mining and oil drilling trigger the Haiti earthquake?)
Without a strong military ally to ward off plunderers by leveraging their muscles for defenseless Black Haiti in foreign relations and trade, Black Haiti shall always be subject to exploitation and impoverishment. It's assets stolen, its attempts at participatory democracy destroyed and the resulting chaos and misery used for the benefit of making the superpowers' elites wealthier.
Haiti is not the poorest country, it's the most exploited country. (See. Program and presentation summary of an HLLN To -Tell-The-Truth- About-Haiti Forum with Ezili Dantò (Photos and Agenda ; Haiti's Riches.)
La Gonave is a Haitian satellite island located in the Gulf of La Gonave about a one-hour ferry ride from Port au Prince. A US business group, Global Renewable Energy, hoping to establish themselves as the "La Gonave Development Authority – LDGA" details in the video below their wish to take over La Gonave “to create an international multi-cultural Island paradise and business Mecca.” Gobal Renewable Energy makes no bones about Haiti as a plantation. None at all. (See also, Ezili Dantò's The Plantation Called Haiti: Feudal Pillage Masking as Humanitarian Aid.)
Few people know that the US simply took an island belonging to Haiti and has never looked back. It's par for the course. Similar to what UN/Clinton is spearheading, presiding over, RIGHT NOW, in terms of Haitian territories like Mole St. Nicolas, Ile de la Tortue, Gulf of La Gonave, or at Fort Liberte.
