Showing posts with label Haitian Earthquake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haitian Earthquake. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
M & K Home, Finally
They were ensconced in the - St. loft by 10 PM. K bouncy and confident, whizzing around, shouting Aibobo! at all moments, to all and sundry, not in the least intimidated by people speaking English. She hardly saw a white person or anyone not speaking Kreyole all her life until she got to the airport.
M, how can I describe? Her confident, pleased, curious, healthy daughter says it best. K is very much her warrior mother's soul and character. In the meantime though, M. may have one hell of a crash, now that she's where they are safe. The first thing M. says is, "Thank you, thank you, thank you," to everyone. But we all know, that in the end it was her, and Mz, who actually DID it. She is ill with a mild form of malaria. She is tired. She'd gotten little sleep for weeks in the heat, humidity, mosquitoes and other dangers, and then none at all the last two days, with getting to the U.S. Embassy so early two days in a row because the U.S. Embassy and the INS f*ed up.
We are discussing family therapy, which is available to members of the Haitian community here affected by the earthquake. Who knows entirely what K saw and experienced before M was able to get there and take custody?
They are home, they really are home! It was the shock of the familiar so long absent, to hear her voice again on the cell. It was the unique, unmistakable voice of our friend. I did not burst into tears upon hearing M's voice.
I seldom cry these days, for if I did weep over whatever is worthy to weep over, I'd never not be crying.
M, how can I describe? Her confident, pleased, curious, healthy daughter says it best. K is very much her warrior mother's soul and character. In the meantime though, M. may have one hell of a crash, now that she's where they are safe. The first thing M. says is, "Thank you, thank you, thank you," to everyone. But we all know, that in the end it was her, and Mz, who actually DID it. She is ill with a mild form of malaria. She is tired. She'd gotten little sleep for weeks in the heat, humidity, mosquitoes and other dangers, and then none at all the last two days, with getting to the U.S. Embassy so early two days in a row because the U.S. Embassy and the INS f*ed up.
We are discussing family therapy, which is available to members of the Haitian community here affected by the earthquake. Who knows entirely what K saw and experienced before M was able to get there and take custody?
They are home, they really are home! It was the shock of the familiar so long absent, to hear her voice again on the cell. It was the unique, unmistakable voice of our friend. I did not burst into tears upon hearing M's voice.
I seldom cry these days, for if I did weep over whatever is worthy to weep over, I'd never not be crying.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Malaria
Our amiga, M, who went back to Haiti to protect her six-year-old daughter that isn't allowed to live here with her and her husband, until uncountable hoops have been leaped through and paid a fee for, each, and every, single, one, substantially, by people who don't have much money to start with.
Well, malaria. She has it.
The dna tests were successfully completed and the conclusion was that M was K's mom could not be ruled out by a factor that just missed 100% by some inthly fraction of a nano. That's how they do.
But now they have to file a 'translated' version of the test, plus fee, with the Haitian authorities.
M has been in Haiti now for 5 months. As someone with a U.S. spouse, with permanent residency granted to her -- if she's out of the country for six months, she loses that, and the process to get M back into the U.S. will have to start all over again too.
Mz's hopeful that she and K will be here by September.
He's planning our annual New Year's Eve rituals and celebrations even now. He says, "K is going to dance for New Year's."
Please, please, please, please.
We will be here, up from C-town, for New Year's with M, no matter what.
Mz wanted to help us celebrate our anniversary last night. But his heart, o his sore heart, it is in Haiti.
Well, malaria. She has it.
The dna tests were successfully completed and the conclusion was that M was K's mom could not be ruled out by a factor that just missed 100% by some inthly fraction of a nano. That's how they do.
But now they have to file a 'translated' version of the test, plus fee, with the Haitian authorities.
M has been in Haiti now for 5 months. As someone with a U.S. spouse, with permanent residency granted to her -- if she's out of the country for six months, she loses that, and the process to get M back into the U.S. will have to start all over again too.
Mz's hopeful that she and K will be here by September.
He's planning our annual New Year's Eve rituals and celebrations even now. He says, "K is going to dance for New Year's."
Please, please, please, please.
We will be here, up from C-town, for New Year's with M, no matter what.
Mz wanted to help us celebrate our anniversary last night. But his heart, o his sore heart, it is in Haiti.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Life In Haiti
Our friend, M., who left the U.S. to be with her six-year-old daughter, K., to protect her and take care of her, as all her caretakers were killed, is depressed. Though the visa application and permission papers are in the system, so that M. can bring K. to her home here, nothing is happening. And after it almost happened, but administration had put in the wrong birth date, and it all had to begin again, she's fearing permission to take K back home is never going to happen.
She can't go out of the hotel room -- it is the bare minimum, i.e. a door that locks, a roof and walls, and it is still $25 a night, but there you go. It's too dangerous to go out. Also, because the word has gone around that she's got an American husband, Mz, so this MUST mean she's really rich, thus K is a prime target for kidnapping. Mz's is working as a tour guide, that's how rich they are.
K.'s been sick with one thing after another ever since she came down with dysentery. M is also struggling with being a mom. She's never been a 24/7 mother since K. was an infant, because she left for the U.S., with the hopes that Mz shared with her, that they could make a better life for K. So being locked in a tiny room with a little girl 24/7 takes its own toll, particularly since this is a new experience for M. M.'s also very independent.
Both M and Mz are having a hard time maintaining their spirits. We try to help.
What Haiti fears so much as that the world has forgotten them again, already, in the light of the many catastrophes that have happened elsewhere since.
She can't go out of the hotel room -- it is the bare minimum, i.e. a door that locks, a roof and walls, and it is still $25 a night, but there you go. It's too dangerous to go out. Also, because the word has gone around that she's got an American husband, Mz, so this MUST mean she's really rich, thus K is a prime target for kidnapping. Mz's is working as a tour guide, that's how rich they are.
K.'s been sick with one thing after another ever since she came down with dysentery. M is also struggling with being a mom. She's never been a 24/7 mother since K. was an infant, because she left for the U.S., with the hopes that Mz shared with her, that they could make a better life for K. So being locked in a tiny room with a little girl 24/7 takes its own toll, particularly since this is a new experience for M. M.'s also very independent.
Both M and Mz are having a hard time maintaining their spirits. We try to help.
What Haiti fears so much as that the world has forgotten them again, already, in the light of the many catastrophes that have happened elsewhere since.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The State of K
M. is in Haiti. She brought three enormous bulging bags of food. She seems to have managed something to get them off the street, into a kind of a house. That is something really big, as it is now the rainy season, and it's raining. During the wind-and-rain storm here, I kept thinking about this, and were they, of course. It's astonishing M has any fingers left. She's chewed her nails right off. Until the earthquake and the death of all her daughter's caregivers (K is only 6), I've never seen M. bite her nails. M, went fully prepared psychically to live on the streets where K was living, to protect, defend, care for her, until the endless tangle of papers can be executed, so K can come to the U.S. (which is why she wasn't here in the first place ... U.S. immigration does everything it can to keep yet one more Haitian coming here).
It seems confirmed, what M and Mz were so afraid was the case, the man with whom K was staying was beating her.
A brick had fallen on one of K's big toes. It hasn't been healing in the dirt and the wet. The nail is gone. "It looks awful," M says, but Mz doesn't know exactly what this means, but it does seem infected.
K is eating and eating and eating.
Mz sent along a pink bear back pack for K that he bought for $10 in Chinatown. K adores it.
In the meantime Mz is both distraught and depressed, with both his wife and steo-daughter in this dangerous situation.
Also, many thanks to our other friends who keep twittering, like Richard Morris, and our grad students, who provided so many other kinds of assistance, and keep us up to date daily with news straight from Port au Prince and other parts of this striken nation, filled with such beautiful people.
All thanks to our friends who have contributed to Rescue K effort.
The effort continues, and all contributions are welcome.
It seems confirmed, what M and Mz were so afraid was the case, the man with whom K was staying was beating her.
A brick had fallen on one of K's big toes. It hasn't been healing in the dirt and the wet. The nail is gone. "It looks awful," M says, but Mz doesn't know exactly what this means, but it does seem infected.
K is eating and eating and eating.
Mz sent along a pink bear back pack for K that he bought for $10 in Chinatown. K adores it.
In the meantime Mz is both distraught and depressed, with both his wife and steo-daughter in this dangerous situation.
Also, many thanks to our other friends who keep twittering, like Richard Morris, and our grad students, who provided so many other kinds of assistance, and keep us up to date daily with news straight from Port au Prince and other parts of this striken nation, filled with such beautiful people.
All thanks to our friends who have contributed to Rescue K effort.
The effort continues, and all contributions are welcome.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
People took food from a supermarket
in Concepción on Sunday."
So this slide (#7) is captiioned in the New York Times slide show that is front and center.*
These people are white.
The black people in Haiti are looters.
When this sort of photo captioning was brought up by us as media critics >!< at the Haiti teach-in, it brought gasps from the audience. In later write ups for the paper and departmental reports -- departments sent representatives to take 'minutes,' this was cited again and again as a radical observation. Though no one, so far, has bothered to attempt refutations of such observations as false or wrong.
We brought this up as a parallel of reportage from New Orleans when the levees broke and people were going without food, water, shelter etc. for weeks also. Foraging for supplies by the desperate black survivors was constantly labeled as looting, and the television nets looped a couple of scenes from Canal Street endlessly, while further uptown, where white people broke into a Whole Foods, that was called 'foraging.' Nor were there television clips or newspaper photos of that.
But we know certainly that white people did break into the Whole Foods there because we stayed at the apartment of one of them for the 2006 Mardi Gras, and she told us many stories of how she and her friends walked down to the Whole Foods every day to get water and so on. Other white people we know told us the same stories.
In the meantime, in the HuffPo, a DOCTOR writes this to illustrate how little we in the U.S. know about Haiti:
* ETA: It may be necessary to overtly state that my heart also goes out to the people of Chile, who have suffered such a terrible disaster, and whose suffering is just beginning.
I'm also at the moment listening to national public rhetoric: the hourly news update has just called the people of Chile looking for food LOOTERS, and reports that the police are turning water hoses and so on, to prevent people from LOOTING. Would it be ignorant to presume these LOOTERS are the Chileans who are, um poor, and maybe of mixed race, or Indio, or black or, well, poor.
So this slide (#7) is captiioned in the New York Times slide show that is front and center.*
These people are white.
The black people in Haiti are looters.
When this sort of photo captioning was brought up by us as media critics >!< at the Haiti teach-in, it brought gasps from the audience. In later write ups for the paper and departmental reports -- departments sent representatives to take 'minutes,' this was cited again and again as a radical observation. Though no one, so far, has bothered to attempt refutations of such observations as false or wrong.
We brought this up as a parallel of reportage from New Orleans when the levees broke and people were going without food, water, shelter etc. for weeks also. Foraging for supplies by the desperate black survivors was constantly labeled as looting, and the television nets looped a couple of scenes from Canal Street endlessly, while further uptown, where white people broke into a Whole Foods, that was called 'foraging.' Nor were there television clips or newspaper photos of that.
But we know certainly that white people did break into the Whole Foods there because we stayed at the apartment of one of them for the 2006 Mardi Gras, and she told us many stories of how she and her friends walked down to the Whole Foods every day to get water and so on. Other white people we know told us the same stories.
In the meantime, in the HuffPo, a DOCTOR writes this to illustrate how little we in the U.S. know about Haiti:
It is no accident that there are no trees on the Haitian side of the island of Hispaniola while the Costa Rican side is lush and tropical.So tell us, what is wrong with this statement?
* ETA: It may be necessary to overtly state that my heart also goes out to the people of Chile, who have suffered such a terrible disaster, and whose suffering is just beginning.
I'm also at the moment listening to national public rhetoric: the hourly news update has just called the people of Chile looking for food LOOTERS, and reports that the police are turning water hoses and so on, to prevent people from LOOTING. Would it be ignorant to presume these LOOTERS are the Chileans who are, um poor, and maybe of mixed race, or Indio, or black or, well, poor.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
8.8 Earthquake In Chile -- Tsunami Consequence
Who will Pat Robertson blame this one on?
Should we start a wagering pool?
Our friend is going to Haiti to live on the streets with her six-year-old daughter who isn't allowed out of Haiti to live with her mother and stepfather here. Every provision they've managed to make for the child has fallen apart in the continuing chaos. The very day her stepfather had finally managed to get into Haiti to bring her to the U.S. the so-called Idaho missionaries got arrested for planning to take Haitian children to the Dominican Republic to live in a non-existant orphanage-resort. No Haitian children allowed out at all.
Daughter's papers all destroyed, so though he had all the papers to prove his identity and his wife's identity, there was nothing to prove K's identity. M. has spent all his money, over %50,000 on the attempt to care for her. But the upshot is she's on the street, dirty and starving and in danger from all kinds of predators.
Her mother is so distraught that she's going on the 10th to be there and protect her child. She's a true warrior -- we've been friends since she married M and came here -- and she will protect K. From all accounts her daughter resembles her in this way -- but she's only six!
All their friends have been trying to provide help from every angle we can. Again I am humbled because people from the SF/F community have started to send me money as part of their contribution to the Rescue K Fund. M. will need it, for the phone, food, clothes, shelter, water.
The constant clashes of the xtians who are taking this catastrophe as their opportunity to defeat witchcraft vodou by denying water, food, shelter and medical care to vodoussants is making the chaos worse. Further, they are not so subtly encouraging surrogats to turn machetes on the vodoussants. These are the actions that make for civil war. Further these xtians are clashing with each other over control of supplies and locations
Makes you sick, doesn't it?
No wonder this mother is determined to go there herself to protect her daughter with her own body if necessary until we can somehow manage to get her into the U.S.
And this is only a single story out of tens of thousands of children in Haiti -- not to mention around the world.
When the situation is so vast only indviduals get saved. There is no fair, honest and non-exploitive system to save the lost children in the world.
Should we start a wagering pool?
Our friend is going to Haiti to live on the streets with her six-year-old daughter who isn't allowed out of Haiti to live with her mother and stepfather here. Every provision they've managed to make for the child has fallen apart in the continuing chaos. The very day her stepfather had finally managed to get into Haiti to bring her to the U.S. the so-called Idaho missionaries got arrested for planning to take Haitian children to the Dominican Republic to live in a non-existant orphanage-resort. No Haitian children allowed out at all.
Daughter's papers all destroyed, so though he had all the papers to prove his identity and his wife's identity, there was nothing to prove K's identity. M. has spent all his money, over %50,000 on the attempt to care for her. But the upshot is she's on the street, dirty and starving and in danger from all kinds of predators.
Her mother is so distraught that she's going on the 10th to be there and protect her child. She's a true warrior -- we've been friends since she married M and came here -- and she will protect K. From all accounts her daughter resembles her in this way -- but she's only six!
All their friends have been trying to provide help from every angle we can. Again I am humbled because people from the SF/F community have started to send me money as part of their contribution to the Rescue K Fund. M. will need it, for the phone, food, clothes, shelter, water.
The constant clashes of the xtians who are taking this catastrophe as their opportunity to defeat witchcraft vodou by denying water, food, shelter and medical care to vodoussants is making the chaos worse. Further, they are not so subtly encouraging surrogats to turn machetes on the vodoussants. These are the actions that make for civil war. Further these xtians are clashing with each other over control of supplies and locations
Makes you sick, doesn't it?
No wonder this mother is determined to go there herself to protect her daughter with her own body if necessary until we can somehow manage to get her into the U.S.
And this is only a single story out of tens of thousands of children in Haiti -- not to mention around the world.
When the situation is so vast only indviduals get saved. There is no fair, honest and non-exploitive system to save the lost children in the world.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Let This Be A Lesson To All You All Who Operate From 'the Gut'
Intead of, You Know, THINKING and BEING INFORMED!
This is what the primary media coverage of Haiti has devolved into. Not a single primary media organization has a team there now, except, I think National Public Rhetoric has a few people on the ground yet in Haiti.
How much you bet these people also don't believe in 'government?'
What I know certainly is it because of THEM KSZ, MZ's and M's
What I know certainly is it because of THEM KSZ, MZ's and M's six-year-old six-year-old daughter is still in Haiti, and not at home here with her parents. The rules for taking children out of the country to the U.S. by those who have U.S. relatives changed that very day because of them. MZ was told so when he went to the proper office to get his papers for her stamped.
KSZ is traumatized. This is what happened.
KSZ was living with her grandmother, who died a few months ago. She was then living with her aunt. She'd been picked up from her school, by the driver that MZS and M paid to do this and was nearly home when the earthquake hit. Her school was flattened, and her teacher and the other children all killed. Her aunt's house was flatttened, and she and her family were all killed. KSZ thought she was going 'home' with MZ, to be with her mother. She was then told by the official that she had to stay in Haiti, with this friend, whom she didn't know before. He's caring for his invalid mother. It's a f*cked up mess, multiplied 3 million times. This one would have had a happy conclusion. Except for these idiotic dorkdongs charging in without thinking about anything, without professional qualifications -- except, it seems their leader's proclivity for playing fast and lose with her business models, floating very close to -- yes, let's call it by the legal term -- fraud.
We do not cry for them.
They also have made the Haitian situation now THEIR story. It's all about them instead of Haiti.
The damage accomplished by the determinedly, wilfully ignorant is incalcuable.
This is what the primary media coverage of Haiti has devolved into. Not a single primary media organization has a team there now, except, I think National Public Rhetoric has a few people on the ground yet in Haiti.
"The 10 American Baptists detained in Port-au-Prince on child trafficking charges are pleading for the United States government to do more on their behalf and for the news media to focus on them less.
“Help us,” one of the detainees, Carla Thompson, said Monday as she lay on a bed in a scorching jail cell about 8 feet by 5 feet, her ankles bandaged from infected mosquito bites. “That’s the message I would give to Mr. Obama and the State Department. Start helping us.”
How much you bet these people also don't believe in 'government?'
What I know certainly is it because of THEM KSZ, MZ's and M's
What I know certainly is it because of THEM KSZ, MZ's and M's six-year-old six-year-old daughter is still in Haiti, and not at home here with her parents. The rules for taking children out of the country to the U.S. by those who have U.S. relatives changed that very day because of them. MZ was told so when he went to the proper office to get his papers for her stamped.
KSZ is traumatized. This is what happened.
KSZ was living with her grandmother, who died a few months ago. She was then living with her aunt. She'd been picked up from her school, by the driver that MZS and M paid to do this and was nearly home when the earthquake hit. Her school was flattened, and her teacher and the other children all killed. Her aunt's house was flatttened, and she and her family were all killed. KSZ thought she was going 'home' with MZ, to be with her mother. She was then told by the official that she had to stay in Haiti, with this friend, whom she didn't know before. He's caring for his invalid mother. It's a f*cked up mess, multiplied 3 million times. This one would have had a happy conclusion. Except for these idiotic dorkdongs charging in without thinking about anything, without professional qualifications -- except, it seems their leader's proclivity for playing fast and lose with her business models, floating very close to -- yes, let's call it by the legal term -- fraud.
We do not cry for them.
They also have made the Haitian situation now THEIR story. It's all about them instead of Haiti.
The damage accomplished by the determinedly, wilfully ignorant is incalcuable.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Update -- Our Friend's Little Girl
MZ just called from Haiti, near the Dominican Republic border.
The little girl safe, but she will not be allowed out of Haiti for any reason, with anyone, not even her own, proven mother. Period. MZ's coming home.
He couldn't even get to Port-au-Prince. There are U.S. soldiers EVERYWHERE. They're not doing anything except looming. So MZ asked them why they were there. The answer: "We're here to make somebody else isn't."
Did they mean Aristide? Cubans? Venezuelans? Haitian Americans looking to help and bury their relatives? Obviously they don't mean U.S. mormons, evangelicals or baptists. They're allowed everywhere.
The little girl safe, but she will not be allowed out of Haiti for any reason, with anyone, not even her own, proven mother. Period. MZ's coming home.
He couldn't even get to Port-au-Prince. There are U.S. soldiers EVERYWHERE. They're not doing anything except looming. So MZ asked them why they were there. The answer: "We're here to make somebody else isn't."
Did they mean Aristide? Cubans? Venezuelans? Haitian Americans looking to help and bury their relatives? Obviously they don't mean U.S. mormons, evangelicals or baptists. They're allowed everywhere.
Haitian Children
Our dear friend has had to go to Haiti, to bring his wife's six-year-old daughter to their home here. INS weirdness has prevented her from being here, but with the earthquake, and her mom having been provided citizenship, and married to many-generational U.S. citizen, supposedly the little girl could now be brought in, and united with her mother and stepfather.
However, the freakin' crazy xtians determined to steal Haitian children have made this now nearly impossible. MZ had to fly to Santo Domingo and then take a bus to Port-au-Prince, and hope to find the child. She's been cared for by relatives, who had started using her as a cash cow last year -- remittances sent to them for the girl's clothes and school and food, were starting to go 'missing.' Thus the relatives don't want to give her up, to have the child go the the U.S., and lose that regular cash flow.
But, the child's mom believed, that since MZ's a houngan, and part of the Haitian houngan network, the relatives would let the child go, for fear of bad spiritual effects coming to them if they denied MZ custody.
Thus there were serious problems already in place before the baptists kidnapped those children to the DR -- where, they claimed, they were going to fulfill their 'dream' of starting an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. (Why, if they wanted an orphanage in the DR, were they not taking in the orphaned children of the Dominican Republic, of which there are many? These people have zilch experience with orphans and orphanages, btw ....)
MZ traveled with reams of paperwork, including copies of the child's mom's citizenship papers, passport, marriage certificates, etc.
But because of what those baptists (and many others -- but only they got arrested!) did, now no child can be taken out of Haiti without the signed permission of Haiti's prime minister -- who is not living in the area where MZ's stepdaughter is located. He's been trying to deal with this all week, in a nation that is wrecked, where you can't travel, where everything is so expensive, and he's laid out all his funds already. MOMA had bought some of his art last fall, and a collector more -- so at the New Year, he'd quit his job, in order to paint again. The job ate his life. He hasn't been able to create for over a year. Then the earthquake. All that money he'd put away to live on for a year has gone to Haiti and the relatives.
So, please, join with Vaquero and me, lighting our candles, wishing good wishes, making prayers, for the success of MZ and his mission saving M's little girl, that they all can be safely together very soon.
However, the freakin' crazy xtians determined to steal Haitian children have made this now nearly impossible. MZ had to fly to Santo Domingo and then take a bus to Port-au-Prince, and hope to find the child. She's been cared for by relatives, who had started using her as a cash cow last year -- remittances sent to them for the girl's clothes and school and food, were starting to go 'missing.' Thus the relatives don't want to give her up, to have the child go the the U.S., and lose that regular cash flow.
But, the child's mom believed, that since MZ's a houngan, and part of the Haitian houngan network, the relatives would let the child go, for fear of bad spiritual effects coming to them if they denied MZ custody.
Thus there were serious problems already in place before the baptists kidnapped those children to the DR -- where, they claimed, they were going to fulfill their 'dream' of starting an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. (Why, if they wanted an orphanage in the DR, were they not taking in the orphaned children of the Dominican Republic, of which there are many? These people have zilch experience with orphans and orphanages, btw ....)
MZ traveled with reams of paperwork, including copies of the child's mom's citizenship papers, passport, marriage certificates, etc.
But because of what those baptists (and many others -- but only they got arrested!) did, now no child can be taken out of Haiti without the signed permission of Haiti's prime minister -- who is not living in the area where MZ's stepdaughter is located. He's been trying to deal with this all week, in a nation that is wrecked, where you can't travel, where everything is so expensive, and he's laid out all his funds already. MOMA had bought some of his art last fall, and a collector more -- so at the New Year, he'd quit his job, in order to paint again. The job ate his life. He hasn't been able to create for over a year. Then the earthquake. All that money he'd put away to live on for a year has gone to Haiti and the relatives.
So, please, join with Vaquero and me, lighting our candles, wishing good wishes, making prayers, for the success of MZ and his mission saving M's little girl, that they all can be safely together very soon.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Hope For Haiti Televised Benefit Concert Tonight
The three city concert will be broadcast tonight, at 8 EST.
It will be internet broadcast also.
http://stereogum.com/archives/tonight_we_hope_for_haiti_110811.html
We're off to view it with some Haitian friends.
Love, c.
It will be internet broadcast also.
http://stereogum.com/archives/tonight_we_hope_for_haiti_110811.html
We're off to view it with some Haitian friends.
Love, c.
Lwa Save Us
That stupid ignorant neocon Michelle Martin of national public rhetoric's Tell Me More had on the NPR house religious 'expert' to tell us about vodou. The 'expert' seems not to have known that it is NOT voodoo. For starters.
This is beyond disgusting. But it's part of the whole cloth out of which coverage of Haiti is cut.
This is beyond disgusting. But it's part of the whole cloth out of which coverage of Haiti is cut.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Homeless Haitians to Get Housed In
Guantánamo? Note the connection of this with ICE and other security apparatus.
One wonders if any of those proposing this recalls that Haitians were incarcerated in Guantánamo, not that long ago -- for the crime of being HIV positive.
Incidentally KBR is deeply interested in the need to build more detention centers to keep Haitians out of the U.S., or hold them when they get here. That's a lot of fed dollar$ HeeHaw!
One wonders if any of those proposing this recalls that Haitians were incarcerated in Guantánamo, not that long ago -- for the crime of being HIV positive.
Incidentally KBR is deeply interested in the need to build more detention centers to keep Haitians out of the U.S., or hold them when they get here. That's a lot of fed dollar$ HeeHaw!
Who Wants Looters? We Do! When Do We Want 'em? Now!
I have been listening to radio reportage from all over the Americas and Europe on the situation in Port au Prince. I've been surfing newspapers from the Americans and Europe online. No one is talking looters. They talk about how the U.S. military isn't allowing any Haitians in or out of the airport, only more U.S. military, U.S. citizens and journalists. They speak of re-routed and detoured portable hospitals, food and water, equipment to dig through the rubble.
But they are not talking about looting and violence. Rather, I hear them marveling at how orderly the people are when finally some of them are getting some rice and beans, lining up peacefully, putting young children and women at the heads of lines. I also hear them reporting on European aid and relief orgs' bewilderment that they aren't being allowed to do what they're there to do -- as if doing it isn't just about impossible already.
It's only via U.S.A. primary faux noose commentary that I ever hear about threats of looters and violence. And how many more military are arriving to 'prevent social disorder.'
However, capitalism rolls merrily along. Luxury liners are still docking at private beaches near Haiti's devastated earthquake zone for holidaymakers to enjoy the water, complicated cocktails and cookouts.
I expect nothing in Haiti to change from this at all, other than more misery, more homelessness, more violence of every kind to be visited on the people. Though, of course, somebody-bodies are going to do very very very well out of the donated millions in money and supplies (though not the average Haitian). Why? Because I have seen and heard every bit of this before regarding Haitian crises, and still no sewer systems, no electrical grid, no highways, no functioning government, only U.S. military supported thug kleptocracy that gets very rich.
I see first hand among my friends the stupendous ability of Haitians to work, their work ethic, their hunger to work. The most effective aid that has arrived in Haiti is from Haitians who have come to this country and become citizens (they know other ways to get into the country than the port and airport at Port-au-Prince). They could build their own country all by themselves, thank you, if they were allowed to. But that's never been allowed to happen before, so I don't expect it to happen anytime in the looming future. After all, we demand Haitians to do what we'd never demand of ourselves, particularly we banking folks. Yes, IMF, I am looking at you, among others.
But they are not talking about looting and violence. Rather, I hear them marveling at how orderly the people are when finally some of them are getting some rice and beans, lining up peacefully, putting young children and women at the heads of lines. I also hear them reporting on European aid and relief orgs' bewilderment that they aren't being allowed to do what they're there to do -- as if doing it isn't just about impossible already.
It's only via U.S.A. primary faux noose commentary that I ever hear about threats of looters and violence. And how many more military are arriving to 'prevent social disorder.'
However, capitalism rolls merrily along. Luxury liners are still docking at private beaches near Haiti's devastated earthquake zone for holidaymakers to enjoy the water, complicated cocktails and cookouts.
I expect nothing in Haiti to change from this at all, other than more misery, more homelessness, more violence of every kind to be visited on the people. Though, of course, somebody-bodies are going to do very very very well out of the donated millions in money and supplies (though not the average Haitian). Why? Because I have seen and heard every bit of this before regarding Haitian crises, and still no sewer systems, no electrical grid, no highways, no functioning government, only U.S. military supported thug kleptocracy that gets very rich.
I see first hand among my friends the stupendous ability of Haitians to work, their work ethic, their hunger to work. The most effective aid that has arrived in Haiti is from Haitians who have come to this country and become citizens (they know other ways to get into the country than the port and airport at Port-au-Prince). They could build their own country all by themselves, thank you, if they were allowed to. But that's never been allowed to happen before, so I don't expect it to happen anytime in the looming future. After all, we demand Haitians to do what we'd never demand of ourselves, particularly we banking folks. Yes, IMF, I am looking at you, among others.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Why No Aid Distribution in Haiti
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates states that he is refusing aid air drops in Haiti because they would cause rioting. He says further that nothing is going on via the airport etc. for reasons of 'security.' So it is better that Haitians dies of thirst, starvation, exposure and injury than the 'peace' be disturbed by giving them the same. And that looting thing I was writing about in the previous post, well though Gates seems profoundly to be promoting riot and looting by denial of aid, so far, nothing remotely like that is going on among the Haitian people. Gotta do something about that, by golly, thinks our Sec of State, or else Cubans gonna be bringing in even more of themselves, and then, Chavez will arrive, and the satan of communism will invade Miama!
Remember people, so called primary media reporting by U.S. A. sorts for U.S.A. outlets must be regarded as extremely unreliable sources for providing your information needs -- until proven otherwise.
You can find it here, as well as below.
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WHERE IS THE AID IN HAITI?
By Roger Annis
January 15--Evidence of monstrous neglect of the Haitian people is mounting following the catastrophic earthquake three days ago. As life-saving medical supplies, food, water purification chemicals and vehicles pile up at the airport in Port au Prince, and as news networks report a massive international effort to deliver emergency aid, the people in the shattered city are wondering when they will see help.
BBC World Service reports that Haitian officials now fear the death toll could rise to 140,000. Three million people are homeless.
BBC reporter Andy Gallagher told an 8 pm (Pacific Time) broadcast tonight that he had traveled “extensively” in Port au Prince during the day and saw little sign of aid delivery. He said he was shown nothing but courtesy by the Haitians he encountered. Everywhere he went he was taken by residents to see what had happened to their neighbourhood, their homes and their lives. Then they asked, “Where is the
help?”
“When the Rescue teams arrive,” Gallagher said, “they will be welcomed with open arms.”
CBC Radio One’s As It Happens broadcast an interview this evening with a spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross. He said he spent the morning touring one of the hardest hit areas of the city (the district was not named), in the hills that rise from the flat plain on which sits historic Port au Prince. “In three hours, I didn’t see a single rescue team.”
The BBC report contrasts starkly with warnings of looting and violence that fill the airwaves of news channels such as CNN and are being voiced by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. He was asked by media in Washington why relief supplies were not being delivered by air. He answered, “It seems to me that air drops will simply lead to riots.”
Gates says that “security” concerns are impeding the delivery of aid. But Gallagher responded directly to that in his report, saying, “I’m not experiencing that.”
Describing the airport, Gallagher reported, “There are plenty of materials on the ground and plenty of people
there. I don’t know what the problem is with delivery.”
Nan Buzard, a spokesperson for the American Red Cross, was interviewed on the same BBC broadcast about the problem with aid delivery. She implied that there were not, in fact, many supplies at the airport to be moved, that many of the planes that have been landing were filled with people, not supplies. When pressed by the BBC host why aid was not being moved into the city, Buzard conceded she was “surprised” that it was not being airlifted in.
The BBC’s is not the only report to contradict exaggerated security concerns. The daily report on the website of Doctors Without Borders one day after the earthquake said, “Some parts of the city are without electricity and people have gathered outside, lighting fires in the street and trying to help and comfort each other. When they saw that I was from MSF they were asking for help, particularly to treat their wounded. There was strong solidarity among people in the streets.”
An e-mailed report received by the Canada Haiti Action Network describes a city largely bereft of international aid. “Thus far,” it reports, “the rescue teams cluster at the high profile and safer walled sites and were literally afraid to enter the barrios. They gravitated to the sites where they had secure compounds and big buildings.
“Meanwhile, the neighbourhoods where the damage appears to be much wider, and anywhere there were loose crowds, they avoided. In the large sites, and in the nice neighbourhoods, and where the press can be found, there would be teams from every country imaginable. Dogs and extraction units with more arriving, yet with 90% or more of them just sitting around." “Meanwhile, in the poor neighbourhoods, awash in rubble,
there was not a foreigner in sight.
“News crews are looking for the story of desperate Haitians that are in hysterics. When in reality it is more often the Haitians that are acting calmly while the international community, the elite and politicians have melted down over the issue, and none seem to have the remotest idea what is going on.”
The report says that most of the staff of the U.S. embassy and US AID complex (located a stone’s throw from the oceanfront) have fled and buildings are largely empty, even though the streets in the area are clear.
Yesterday, BBC broadcast an interview with Mark Stuart, a director of an orphanage in Jacmel, a city of 50,000 on Haiti's south coast, 50 km south of Port au Prince. Aerial footage showed catastrophic damage. Stuart appealed for international relief, saying that food and water supplies would soon run out and no aid whatsoever had arrived.
An article on the website of a Chicago publication says a trickle of aid arrived today but the road between Port and Prince and Jacmel is impassable.
Roger Annis is a coordinator of the Canada Haiti Action Network in Vancouver. He can be reached at
rogerannis(at)hotmail.com.
Remember people, so called primary media reporting by U.S. A. sorts for U.S.A. outlets must be regarded as extremely unreliable sources for providing your information needs -- until proven otherwise.
You can find it here, as well as below.
__________________________________________________________________________
WHERE IS THE AID IN HAITI?
By Roger Annis
January 15--Evidence of monstrous neglect of the Haitian people is mounting following the catastrophic earthquake three days ago. As life-saving medical supplies, food, water purification chemicals and vehicles pile up at the airport in Port au Prince, and as news networks report a massive international effort to deliver emergency aid, the people in the shattered city are wondering when they will see help.
BBC World Service reports that Haitian officials now fear the death toll could rise to 140,000. Three million people are homeless.
BBC reporter Andy Gallagher told an 8 pm (Pacific Time) broadcast tonight that he had traveled “extensively” in Port au Prince during the day and saw little sign of aid delivery. He said he was shown nothing but courtesy by the Haitians he encountered. Everywhere he went he was taken by residents to see what had happened to their neighbourhood, their homes and their lives. Then they asked, “Where is the
help?”
“When the Rescue teams arrive,” Gallagher said, “they will be welcomed with open arms.”
CBC Radio One’s As It Happens broadcast an interview this evening with a spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross. He said he spent the morning touring one of the hardest hit areas of the city (the district was not named), in the hills that rise from the flat plain on which sits historic Port au Prince. “In three hours, I didn’t see a single rescue team.”
The BBC report contrasts starkly with warnings of looting and violence that fill the airwaves of news channels such as CNN and are being voiced by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. He was asked by media in Washington why relief supplies were not being delivered by air. He answered, “It seems to me that air drops will simply lead to riots.”
Gates says that “security” concerns are impeding the delivery of aid. But Gallagher responded directly to that in his report, saying, “I’m not experiencing that.”
Describing the airport, Gallagher reported, “There are plenty of materials on the ground and plenty of people
there. I don’t know what the problem is with delivery.”
Nan Buzard, a spokesperson for the American Red Cross, was interviewed on the same BBC broadcast about the problem with aid delivery. She implied that there were not, in fact, many supplies at the airport to be moved, that many of the planes that have been landing were filled with people, not supplies. When pressed by the BBC host why aid was not being moved into the city, Buzard conceded she was “surprised” that it was not being airlifted in.
The BBC’s is not the only report to contradict exaggerated security concerns. The daily report on the website of Doctors Without Borders one day after the earthquake said, “Some parts of the city are without electricity and people have gathered outside, lighting fires in the street and trying to help and comfort each other. When they saw that I was from MSF they were asking for help, particularly to treat their wounded. There was strong solidarity among people in the streets.”
An e-mailed report received by the Canada Haiti Action Network describes a city largely bereft of international aid. “Thus far,” it reports, “the rescue teams cluster at the high profile and safer walled sites and were literally afraid to enter the barrios. They gravitated to the sites where they had secure compounds and big buildings.
“Meanwhile, the neighbourhoods where the damage appears to be much wider, and anywhere there were loose crowds, they avoided. In the large sites, and in the nice neighbourhoods, and where the press can be found, there would be teams from every country imaginable. Dogs and extraction units with more arriving, yet with 90% or more of them just sitting around." “Meanwhile, in the poor neighbourhoods, awash in rubble,
there was not a foreigner in sight.
“News crews are looking for the story of desperate Haitians that are in hysterics. When in reality it is more often the Haitians that are acting calmly while the international community, the elite and politicians have melted down over the issue, and none seem to have the remotest idea what is going on.”
The report says that most of the staff of the U.S. embassy and US AID complex (located a stone’s throw from the oceanfront) have fled and buildings are largely empty, even though the streets in the area are clear.
Yesterday, BBC broadcast an interview with Mark Stuart, a director of an orphanage in Jacmel, a city of 50,000 on Haiti's south coast, 50 km south of Port au Prince. Aerial footage showed catastrophic damage. Stuart appealed for international relief, saying that food and water supplies would soon run out and no aid whatsoever had arrived.
An article on the website of a Chicago publication says a trickle of aid arrived today but the road between Port and Prince and Jacmel is impassable.
Roger Annis is a coordinator of the Canada Haiti Action Network in Vancouver. He can be reached at
rogerannis(at)hotmail.com.
Yeeeesssssssss my precioussssssss, we wants our lootersssssss, yesssssss we doesssssssssss.
Yeeeesssssssss my precioussssssss, we wants our lootersssssss, yesssssss we doesssssssssss.
So much of the public response to this catastrophe is disquieting, to say the least. I am speaking further than the vile and determined ignorance in particular, on the part of those who really should know better, like megadweeb David Brooks, but by those who believe they know our national history. They too prefer in the end to blame the victims, to wear a blindfold when it comes to the responsibility on the part of this nation and others for the wreckage.
That's why they don't see anything wrong with the bodies bullldozed into mass graves without any attempt to photograph the faces for later recognition, because, yannno it will be worse if we don't. Regretable, perhaps, but nothing to get ourselves heated about. Only irrational people like Haitians are upset by this. Bad for public health (since when has Haiti's pubic health -- or our own national public health, for that matter -- mattered to the U.S.A.?) However, those who actually work in public health say there is no proof that dead bodies, per se, cause disease.
Nevertheless I'm told in tones that one uses to an unreasonable child that my concern about this behavior indicates that I'm "too emotionally involved and am not seeing straight." Such behavior has nothing to do with racism or colonialism. It's because there's nothing else to do.
There's no infrastructure there! No government! No organization! And so many bodies! You can't do anything else. Too bad, but, well, that is how it is. I'll send another check to Doctors Without Borders -- which, by the way, aren't allowed to fly into Haiti's only functional airport because it is controlled by the U.S. military and the U.S. military isn't allowing them in. (Shades of New Orleans -- assistance and supplies kept out of the city at gunpoint -- remember?) They have to go to the DR and truck the personnel and supplies across the mountains instead. How long before our looters and other criminal elements start highjacking? (We must have our looters, and even will bring them into being, if needs be ....
Funny, these same people didn't say that of me when it was Katrina's disaster of the levees destroying New Orleans. Then one and all were more than willing to throw the blame where it belonged. But they saw what happened to New Orleans as a consequence of a particular moment in U.S. history and believed if bushcheneybrownies etc. were gone nothing like this would happen again. But what happened in New Orleans is part of the continuum of our national policies that are also executed in Haiti.
Haiti's condition, like New Orleans' isn't something that has happened in an isolated moment of history, but is yet another disaster for Haiti in a continum of U.S. and neo colonialist policies and power. Which means we're all responsible, to the degree that we've ignored Haiti and what our nation does there and has always done there. But we want to believe that sending a check to Doctors Without Borders absolves us of any personal blame or responsibility, and additionally, it allows so many of us to re-blame the victims. Thus we must have our looters and our homicides -- our 'breakdown of law and order.' When it has been this nation's policy to have no law and order in Haiti other than what it chooses to underwrite and enable -- empowering thugs to keep the population in line.
None of us without food or water for going on 5 days, no home, no NOTHING, with our loved ones dead and dying and lost all around us, would ever get unreasonable much less irrational or ever consider lashing out. It's all right to throw a Haitian's relatives into a mass grave with no photograph that might tell her and the grieving remainder of the family where they might be. But not our relatives. That's different. They are nice respectable Americans, not a poor blameful disaster victims in Haiti (or, in fact as so many said and still say, in New Orleans).
And we will continue to refuse to see why Haiti has no infrastructure, no functioning government, no organization -- hardly even hospitals -- that most of the functioning health care in Haiti has has long been provided by the medical people of another poor Caribbean nation, Cuba -- nor shall we in this country even mention that this is so, because Cuba like Haiti, made a deal with the devil.
Why it is particularly important for Haitians to know where their dead are, read Madison Smartt Bell's Haiti in Ink and Tears: A Literary Sampler in today's NY Times Week in Review.
You will also wish to read John Maxwell's column in the Jamaica Observer. JM is a grand old life-time Jamaican activist, a big stick in the eye of destructive capitalism in Jamaica and throughout the Caribbean.
-- Remedial Haiti 101.
So much of the public response to this catastrophe is disquieting, to say the least. I am speaking further than the vile and determined ignorance in particular, on the part of those who really should know better, like megadweeb David Brooks, but by those who believe they know our national history. They too prefer in the end to blame the victims, to wear a blindfold when it comes to the responsibility on the part of this nation and others for the wreckage.
That's why they don't see anything wrong with the bodies bullldozed into mass graves without any attempt to photograph the faces for later recognition, because, yannno it will be worse if we don't. Regretable, perhaps, but nothing to get ourselves heated about. Only irrational people like Haitians are upset by this. Bad for public health (since when has Haiti's pubic health -- or our own national public health, for that matter -- mattered to the U.S.A.?) However, those who actually work in public health say there is no proof that dead bodies, per se, cause disease.
Nevertheless I'm told in tones that one uses to an unreasonable child that my concern about this behavior indicates that I'm "too emotionally involved and am not seeing straight." Such behavior has nothing to do with racism or colonialism. It's because there's nothing else to do.
There's no infrastructure there! No government! No organization! And so many bodies! You can't do anything else. Too bad, but, well, that is how it is. I'll send another check to Doctors Without Borders -- which, by the way, aren't allowed to fly into Haiti's only functional airport because it is controlled by the U.S. military and the U.S. military isn't allowing them in. (Shades of New Orleans -- assistance and supplies kept out of the city at gunpoint -- remember?) They have to go to the DR and truck the personnel and supplies across the mountains instead. How long before our looters and other criminal elements start highjacking? (We must have our looters, and even will bring them into being, if needs be ....
Funny, these same people didn't say that of me when it was Katrina's disaster of the levees destroying New Orleans. Then one and all were more than willing to throw the blame where it belonged. But they saw what happened to New Orleans as a consequence of a particular moment in U.S. history and believed if bushcheneybrownies etc. were gone nothing like this would happen again. But what happened in New Orleans is part of the continuum of our national policies that are also executed in Haiti.
Haiti's condition, like New Orleans' isn't something that has happened in an isolated moment of history, but is yet another disaster for Haiti in a continum of U.S. and neo colonialist policies and power. Which means we're all responsible, to the degree that we've ignored Haiti and what our nation does there and has always done there. But we want to believe that sending a check to Doctors Without Borders absolves us of any personal blame or responsibility, and additionally, it allows so many of us to re-blame the victims. Thus we must have our looters and our homicides -- our 'breakdown of law and order.' When it has been this nation's policy to have no law and order in Haiti other than what it chooses to underwrite and enable -- empowering thugs to keep the population in line.
None of us without food or water for going on 5 days, no home, no NOTHING, with our loved ones dead and dying and lost all around us, would ever get unreasonable much less irrational or ever consider lashing out. It's all right to throw a Haitian's relatives into a mass grave with no photograph that might tell her and the grieving remainder of the family where they might be. But not our relatives. That's different. They are nice respectable Americans, not a poor blameful disaster victims in Haiti (or, in fact as so many said and still say, in New Orleans).
And we will continue to refuse to see why Haiti has no infrastructure, no functioning government, no organization -- hardly even hospitals -- that most of the functioning health care in Haiti has has long been provided by the medical people of another poor Caribbean nation, Cuba -- nor shall we in this country even mention that this is so, because Cuba like Haiti, made a deal with the devil.
Why it is particularly important for Haitians to know where their dead are, read Madison Smartt Bell's Haiti in Ink and Tears: A Literary Sampler in today's NY Times Week in Review.
You will also wish to read John Maxwell's column in the Jamaica Observer. JM is a grand old life-time Jamaican activist, a big stick in the eye of destructive capitalism in Jamaica and throughout the Caribbean.
-- Remedial Haiti 101.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Haitian Earthquake
M's immediate birth family have regrouped and reached her. But at least one of her aunts is dead.
The woman who is the vignette on the cover of The World That Made New Orleans, has lost many family members. Also the house she was building with every penny she has been saving for 15 years. It is now dust.
Madison's in touch now, and his people are mostly all right, physically.
E's family is still not in touch at all.
FF's daughter has checked in, but his son is missing.
Nothing from Boukman Eksperyans.
On and on.
Bodies are being bulldozed into mass grave.
Even in Tsunami photos were taken of the dead. Nothing for Haitians. Nothing for New Orleans. They are black. Send 'em, down. Doesn't matter.
African diaspora peoples. If there is ANYTHING at all that is pan-African, pan-Caribbean, it is the respect for the ancestors. This is obscene.
The woman who is the vignette on the cover of The World That Made New Orleans, has lost many family members. Also the house she was building with every penny she has been saving for 15 years. It is now dust.
Madison's in touch now, and his people are mostly all right, physically.
E's family is still not in touch at all.
FF's daughter has checked in, but his son is missing.
Nothing from Boukman Eksperyans.
On and on.
Bodies are being bulldozed into mass grave.
Even in Tsunami photos were taken of the dead. Nothing for Haitians. Nothing for New Orleans. They are black. Send 'em, down. Doesn't matter.
African diaspora peoples. If there is ANYTHING at all that is pan-African, pan-Caribbean, it is the respect for the ancestors. This is obscene.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Larry Hama, Marvel Cartoonist, Celebrity Postmamboist 003
Postmamboists care about Haitians and Haiti.
Who wears Postmamboism? Larry Hama, that's who, Marvel Cartoonist, writer, band member THE KOTICS.
Who wears Postmamboism? Larry Hama, that's who, Marvel Cartoonist, writer, band member THE KOTICS.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Ed Schultz -- On Top of the Haitian Earthquake Catastrophe
The Ed Schultz Air America radio program has a list of reputable organizations for help.
http://www.wegoted.com/news/detail.asp?newsID=3047
His program today is really ON TOP of the catastrophe, with informed figures and Haitian specialists reporting the progress of what's going on with orgs around the world tryiing to help, the history of Haiti, everything.
Ed Schultz hasn't know much if anything previously about Haiti. His astonishment at learning that 75 percent of adult Haitians don't have jobs has left him boggled. And, bless his heart, enraged. You hear him attempting to track through how a population in this condition, that literally lives from day-to-day, can be on this nation's doorstep. To him this is incomprehensible.
What is also interesting is what is not being mentioned by anyone in connection with the wreck that Haiti is, is the history of Haiti and French colonial status whose economy was entirely slave-based, and the subsequent racism practiced against Haiti by everyone from Jefferson on. That this is the consequence of refusal to recognize a black state's integrity with refusal to trade, or have any relationship with this state other than as a subserviant, client, under white imperialist thumbs.
http://www.wegoted.com/news/detail.asp?newsID=3047
His program today is really ON TOP of the catastrophe, with informed figures and Haitian specialists reporting the progress of what's going on with orgs around the world tryiing to help, the history of Haiti, everything.
Ed Schultz hasn't know much if anything previously about Haiti. His astonishment at learning that 75 percent of adult Haitians don't have jobs has left him boggled. And, bless his heart, enraged. You hear him attempting to track through how a population in this condition, that literally lives from day-to-day, can be on this nation's doorstep. To him this is incomprehensible.
What is also interesting is what is not being mentioned by anyone in connection with the wreck that Haiti is, is the history of Haiti and French colonial status whose economy was entirely slave-based, and the subsequent racism practiced against Haiti by everyone from Jefferson on. That this is the consequence of refusal to recognize a black state's integrity with refusal to trade, or have any relationship with this state other than as a subserviant, client, under white imperialist thumbs.
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