The Propagande Game

During slavery the slaves were told to believe that the omniscient and merciful God sanctioned their enslavement and those obeying his words would somehow be rewarded. Incredibly many slaves were sold on the insane idea and abandoned their earthly fate to the infallible judgment of the Creator with an unsurpassed zeal that created a barrier to their emancipation. As a result, it was not unusual for these gullible salves to question the wisdom of their fellow slaves that wanted to free themselves from a system they considered abhorrent, inhuman and evil. Unfortunately for the supporting cast of the system: owners, traders, overseers and gullible slaves, the revolts of Maroons of Jamaica and the indomitable revolutionaries of Saint Domingue, presently Haiti, plus the actions of many enlightened whites brought an end to the absurdity.
Incredibly, 122 years after Brazil became the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery (1888), a reincarnated breed of these gullible slaves, (the intellectual and educated Haitians), is following in the footsteps of their ancestors by wholeheartedly embracing economic liberalism, the main tenet of neo-colonialism. The analogy between slavery and economic liberalism may seem inappropriate, if not illogical, to disbelievers, but their underlying principle is too uncanny to ignore. Both systems evolved from the notion of white supremacy, economic exploitation, domination and militarism, hence those pretending not to see or unwilling accept the similarities must, like their gullible ancestors, be supplanted or shunned aside.
Indeed, it is inconceivable that the intellectuals and educated Haitians are casting themselves as ardent defenders of a system that robs their fellow uneducated countrymen of their dignity and condemns millions to abject poverty and misery. In fact these two groups easily surpass their gullible ancestors in their zeal, as they are consumed with hatred against their impoverished brothers in contrast with the old ignorant slaves that only prayed for the well-being of their masters whom God had conveniently chosen to oversee slavery. Relegated to the antechamber of power since the putsch of February 29, 2004, the intellectuals and educated Haitians have since then been trampling over each other to establish their anti-proletarian credentials. In that regard, they vilify and ostracize any Haitian who dares speak against the current state of affairs, and see themselves as a rampart against the dangerous hordes of uncivilized Haitians that came perilously close to destroying “their beloved Haiti” during the truncated presidencies of Jean Bertrand Aristide. Not surprisingly, these two groups consider the unwarranted occupation of Haiti (2004-?) “A benevolent act of mercy” that needs to be rewarded with unquestioned collaboration with the occupiers, since no less than the future of this civilization is at stake.
Most importantly, the virulence to which these two groups responded to Wyclef Jean’s presidential bid was a testament of their elitist and decidedly anti-proletarian attitude that essentially underscored their naiveté. Accordingly they saw Jean’s failed presidential bid as an abomination and an insult to the nation that has its genesis in what they arrogantly believe was the accidental ascension to Haiti’s presidency of the “little priest”, a derogatory term commonly use to depict Jean Bertrand Aristide. Obviously, the putsches of September 30, 1991 and February 29, 2004 were never about Aristide, whom these two groups consider an incorrigible iconoclast, but a well coordinated and unrelenting assault on the aspirations of the Haitian people.
Frederick Douglas correctly wrote in his autobiography “To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.” Freedom of choice is the essence of all accountability.” Because the system in place in Haiti is no less inhuman than slavery, it absolves the so-called uncivilized masses, which the country’s educated and intellectuals and the international community consider this civilization’s mortal enemy, of any moral responsibilities. Twice the masses voted for a political leader they saw as their best hope; twice their choice was overturned by the military coup of September of 1991 and the foreign invasion of February 29, 2004, during which thousands of defenseless poor Haitians were systematically hunted down, arbitrarily imprisoned or summarily killed.
It is obvious these groups subscribe to the notion that slavery was a necessary course of action for civilizing uncivilized Africans and neo-colonialism an advanced enlightenment model for their descendants. Perhaps this explains the zero opposition to the occupation by any of the presidential candidates in the upcoming elections whilst combating populism and subduing the masses remain at the forefront of the international effort.
Once again Frederick Douglas was right when he said “ The guilt of the slave was always and everywhere presumed, and the innocence of the slaveholder, or employer, was always asserted.” As the quote relates to Haiti’s situation it is fair to conclude that the guilt of the Haitian masses (the oppressed) is automatically presumed, while the innocence of the Haitian elite and the international community (the oppressors) is always affirmed. Hence, stability (code word for maintaining the status quos) takes precedence over any legitimate aspirations the Haitian people might have had. Historians will agree that the educated and pseudo-intellectual Haitians, by embracing the fallacious notion of altruism put forward by the international community as a justification for the occupation, served as the pillars upon which the subjugation of Haiti stood. For Haiti to survive, we owe it to our ancestors to reclaim the torch of freedom and human dignity that has been callously tossed aside and sullied by these gullible and impenitent collaborators.