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RASTAFARIANS ATTACKED/HUNTED IN HAITI *LINK*

According to Pan-African World News sources, Pacifica ( www.kpfa.org ), Democracy Now www.democracynow.org (Amy Goodman) and the world wide Rastafarian intelligence services Rastafari who were part of the people who worked for change in Haiti are now under attack. Anyone seen with locks is in danger of being attacked says the world press and other news sources.

However, sources from as far as South Africa, parts of the United States, Canada, throughout Africa, the South Pacific, Europe, the Caribbean region, Brazil, Latin America have pointed out that attacks on Rastafari is awakening the Dragon and that the British attack against the Mau-Mau, or the Italian invasion against Ethiopia under Menelik (1895) led to these forces being severly defeated or demoralized.

The Rastafari community around the world today is not the Rastafari community of twenty years ago. Rasta around the world are a powerful religious movement as well a military and social movement. In fact, the very idea of wearing dreadlocks comes from the warrior elite of the ancient Egyptian priests who under Ahmose defeated the Hyksos invaders of Egypt who had ravaged the land, the Egyptians and their wealth. After years of constant struggle, Ahmose defeated and drove the Hyksos out of Egypt.

In Kenya, the Mau-Mau, whose militaristic philosophy is part of the various links that is part of Rastafari history defeated the British in a psychological manner even though they were not militarily as strong.

Emperor Menelik and his Ethiopian Ras Army defeated the Italians at the Battle of Adowa and wiped out the entire Italian military, one of the strong armies of the time.

The Jamaican Voodoo Priest Boukman, using the divine right of freeing his oppressed brothers that African Spiritualism mandates (Vadu, Orisha, Shango, Mbanda, Lucumi), contributed to the eradication of the racist French slavemasters from Haiti and the creation of the first Black Republic.

Is history repeating itself? Something about attacks on those who want their freedom from oppression (ie Arab-Lebanese/bougeoir oppression of Black Haitians who are poor) or of those helping to uplift them such as Rastafari "God's Warriors" brings about retribution that has left to imagine. Meanwhile, the millions of Rastafari around the world must be looking at the attack on Rastas and poor Black people in Haiti with the utmost fury.
Hundreds of Millions of Africans, Europeans, Melanesians, Asians, Latin Americans and North Americans are also watching.

Many will ask, why did the Jamaican Govt support the representative of 90 percent of Haiti's Black people who are suffering? After all, Jamaica is know since the sixteen hundreds as a nation where Africans have fought for their freedom, whether its the Maroons or the Morant Bay Rebellion.

JAMAICAN BOUKMAN ONE OF LEADERS OF HAITIAN REVOLUTION

Further more Boukman, a Vadu Priest is said to have come from Jamaica or have connections there. Henri Christophe is said to have come from Saint Kitts. Thus, Jamaicans and other Caribbean people who have been freed or were freed due to the revolution in Haiti against the French which pushed the British and others to abolish slavery in 1835, are grateful and are showing their gratitude. The same can be said for Venezuela, where Haiti contributed to Simon Bolivar's revolution against Spanish colonialism. In fact much of Latin America are free today because of Haiti.

HAITIAN AND BLACK AMERICAN TROOPS FOUGHT FOR UNION ARMY IN CIVIL WAR

Black America's 200,000 Black troops and about 10,000 from Haiti were also instrumental in helping the Union (of the United States) win the Civil War against the slave-holding Southern States. Is it no wonder that most of the most racist and putrid anti-Blacks and anti Haitians come from South of the Mason Dixon Line?

Haiti supplied about 10,000 troops and auxillary forces to help the Union during the Civil War. There is no doubt that the type of system the Haitians used to fight Napoleon's troops could have been used by the Black population of the South if they had planned to rebel against the slavemasters if the North had not gone to War with the Southern US to stop slavery and to preserve the Union.

Hence, we wonder why Haitians are so despised for defeating Napoleon's troops, the Spanish, the English and others. It is because those who believe in white supremacy and the continuation of Black suppression (whether they do it by themselves as in the US or use other Blacks to do it), are hard at work. They see Haiti as a symbol and they see the militaristic, prideful and feeling of being just as good or superior to the racists that many Caribbean people have as a threat to the continuation of their own racists myths. After all, Blacks around the world who hold their heads high and do not cast their eyes like slaves are setting a bad example to Blacks in the US.

CARIBBEAN NATIONALISM/TROPICALISM/THIRD WORLD SOLIDARITY

However, those who believe in Tropicalism (people of the Tropics/Third World are no one's slaves and are united in applying their rights to development, selfpreservation, harmony), Caribbeanism or Third World Nationalism are the ones who want to see all the Caribbean people unite and build their countries and create a powerful force in the Region. These are the same people who want Black Melanesia to unite, Africa to unite and develop into superpowerhood, India and Pakistan to overcome their differences, Black America, Brazil's Afro-Brazilians, Afro-LatinAmericans and Caribbeans to unite and all people in the Caribbean whether of African, Chinese, East Indian, Portugese, Spanish, American Indian, or whatever race, nationality, class or religion to realize that unity and respect along with the idea of "Tropicalism" or "Third World Nationalism" is a political and cultural philosophy that has to be established to stop the worldwide conspiracy of destruction that is taking place against people who are not Europeans of the Rightist political leanings (Black or non-white facists are allright doing their masters' work???) or are people of any race who support and believe in freedom and democratic rights for all
More on the situation in Haiti, listen to Democracy Now with Amy Goodman at www.kpfa.org (9:00 am to 10:00 EST Mondays to Fridays and with other hosts at 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm EST Monday to Friday on "Flashpoints." at www.kpfa.org www.democracynow.org

The solution to create a powerful Caribbean community is to build the region, develop and create economies like Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Singapore and even England. There are a few things that can be learned from these island-nations and small nations. After all, these are people, not supermen and superwomen. They are economically advanced for a variety of reasons and once the economists of the Caribbean, America's Black community, Africa, Latin America realizes what these nations are doing to make them successful, it will be implemented. In fact some of these ideas are already being used in places like India and is discussed in the book, "Susu and Susunomics," published by www.iUniverse.com
also see www.barnesandnoble.com

Read more about the Haitian Revolution from the work, "A History of Racism and Terrorism, Rebellion and Overcoming," published by www.xlibris.com
or go to "Million Man and Woman Book Club" at the link below
http://community.webtv.net/nubianem



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