WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.399 What do I want to do, Guys? Do I want 2 00:00:01.399 --> 00:00:07.400 to make it blacker news or critical thinking exercise? It's 3 00:00:07.400 --> 00:00:09.080 really it's about which intro I want to play. So 4 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:11.919 you know which I'm going to play, right, Actually, both 5 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:13.560 of them are so good. 6 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:14.759 You know what. 7 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:33.759 It's a blacker news critical thinking exercise, That's what it is. 8 00:00:35.799 --> 00:01:11.120 And then. 9 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:59.280 Yes, it's both. 10 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:06.959 So we are watching the United States make a grand 11 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:14.000 effort at starting a war with Venezuela to steal their resources. 12 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:18.040 We know this, We're watching it. This is the facts. 13 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:24.079 They are getting support, however, from a number of places, 14 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:29.400 including Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago is an island 15 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:34.120 that is the last island of the Caribbean. It is 16 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:39.680 right done here and it is very close to Venezuela. 17 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:47.200 They share waters. There has been some accusations that Venezuela 18 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:52.040 has tried to steal oil from Trinidad, and this has 19 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:58.000 been used as legitimizing of why Trinidad would be in 20 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:04.280 cahoots with the United States. However, I will state conclusively 21 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.599 here and now that the truth of the matter is 22 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:13.039 that the United States colonized the Caribbean. 23 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:21.159 That is not some like weird assertion that I'm making. 24 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:31.479 It is a basic, bottom line fact. And unfortunately, in 25 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:35.800 that colonizing they will of course have folks who are 26 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:39.639 going along with their ride. And I want to break 27 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:44.120 down for you guys the myriad ways that has happened. 28 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:52.400 But first let's show the President, sorry, the Prime Minister 29 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:57.120 of Trinidad and Tobago and her latest commentary that she 30 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:02.199 voiced in response to island opposition of trade and Tobago 31 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:08.479 being used as a military outpost in aggressions against Venezuela. 32 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:11.560 You worry about radar and you worry about Venezuela. 33 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:12.319 Don't worry. 34 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:16.400 And I'll tell you something. You know, I think it's 35 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:21.599 the height of hypocrisy and unkindness that your people in 36 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:25.159 our country who want to fight the Americans. Tonight, I 37 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:30.240 say it again, I stand in bilateral relationships with the. 38 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:31.560 United States of America. 39 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:40.800 They are amongst our oldest trading partners. One there are 40 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:45.719 largest trading partner in terms of millions of dollars trade 41 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:49.319 between US with Venezuela. We have point zero zero zero 42 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:55.000 treat with the United States. Minnesota Trada. You Heal Kennedy. 43 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:55.479 You may know. 44 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:00.800 Billions of dollars in trade. 45 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:05.960 Let's really take a look. 46 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:12.879 When she says that the United States are friends, Let's 47 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:17.439 take a look at how the United States has colonized 48 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:24.800 the Caribbean. I said recently that the United States is 49 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:32.759 basically I'm sorry, I said recently that the Caribbean is 50 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:37.120 the Africa of the Western Hemisphere in that it has 51 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:44.120 been systematically destabilized in its resources stolen. Now, when this 52 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:48.199 woman says, well, you know, we have trade with the 53 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:52.120 United States and we don't have trade with Venezuela, this 54 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:56.920 is not because of some genuine reasoning for why the 55 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:00.879 United States is trading the Trinidad and not Thenezuela. It 56 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:06.639 is solely because keeping Trinidad inextricably linked in economy to 57 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:10.000 the United States keeps them in their back pocket. This 58 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:14.240 is an example of soft power. It also allows for 59 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:17.680 them to continue to control the Sorry, it allows them 60 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:20.480 to continue to control Trinidad, and thus they are not 61 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:26.399 operating as a sovereign nation. This is another example of colonialism. 62 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:31.199 We know that the term colonizer went out of fashion 63 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:38.319 after World War Two. However, the action did not go 64 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:42.439 out of fashion. So I'm gonna take you through a 65 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:47.120 series of ways in which the United States has colonized 66 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:47.920 the Caribbean. 67 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:51.160 Now, someone asked, is she scared of the US? 68 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:55.839 No, and I think that it's very I want you 69 00:05:55.879 --> 00:06:00.319 guys to really stop trying to apply your version of 70 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:06.000 humanism to these individuals in power, because it's not practical. 71 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:11.519 They haven't demonstrated anything to give us reason to give 72 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:14.399 them that type of benefit of the doubt. So let's 73 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:19.000 start and I will come back to this woman. I 74 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:25.839 will come back to her, because it all connects. First, 75 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:33.040 in nineteen thirties, Puerto Rico experienced sterilization on such a 76 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:37.720 mass level that one and three Puerto Rican women were sterilized. 77 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:42.120 This is because the United States decided that Puerto Rico 78 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:50.040 was overpopulated. They literally, unbeknownst to the population of Puerto Rico, 79 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:54.000 prevented women from being able to give birth because they 80 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:58.279 had colonized the country and decided that they wanted there 81 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:05.639 to be less people on the island. This is an 82 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:11.680 example of hard power, and this doesn't get talked enough, 83 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:15.199 talked about enough, largely in part because it is violence 84 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:19.680 against women. Now, whenever it's violence against men and armies, etc. 85 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:23.800 We hold that at a very different standard. However, violence 86 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:27.720 against women and the usurping of the rights to their 87 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:32.480 bodies is also warfare, and it is also hard power. 88 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:35.120 We are literally seeing it right now in the Sudan 89 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:39.480 and Congo and in the immense amounts of sexual assault cases. 90 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:44.120 This is done to continuously keep the population in a 91 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:47.600 state of fear. We see this in how these men 92 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:51.000 go to different countries under the American flag and they 93 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:54.519 commit assault against members of those countries. We see that 94 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:58.240 in the comfort women. We see that in Japan, in Okinawa. 95 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:01.120 We see this all over, and we know that it 96 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.680 is not just a matter of boys will be boys, 97 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:07.639 or of literally just men being bad men. It is allowed, 98 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:12.199 It is absolutely supported, and it is projected because it 99 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:15.519 is an act of colonialism and it continues to not 100 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:20.519 only put the women in fear, but their husbands, their fathers, 101 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:21.199 their brothers. 102 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:22.439 It puts them in fear. 103 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:32.240 Next the nineteen eighty three Grenada invasion. In nineteen eighty one, 104 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:37.320 you had Maurice Bishop, who was a young man in 105 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:42.200 Grenada and he said, you know, I'm actually going to 106 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:51.559 do a coup and overthrow Gary and I'm going to 107 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:57.720 bring socialism into Grenada. So he actually leads a revolution 108 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:00.559 in Grenada called the New Duwel Movement and the goal 109 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:05.840 is to bring socialism and possibly communism to Grenada. In 110 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:10.600 doing so, he becomes really tight with Fidel Castro in Cuba. 111 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:13.679 Now, even though the. 112 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:19.399 Even though the what's it called the Cold War really 113 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:23.039 was at its height in the sixties, we know that 114 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:27.679 it also got it didn't get fully disseminated or fully 115 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:33.360 dissolved until the eighties. And the truth of the matter 116 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:38.720 is that Fidel Castro presented as an example of a 117 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:44.120 winner because he did successfully overthrow the government. And whether 118 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:47.360 or not you feel his rule was authoritarian, et cetera, 119 00:09:47.799 --> 00:09:52.200 it doesn't change the fact that he successfully over threw 120 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.759 the government, and in doing so, he was able to 121 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:00.360 show that there could be another type of government in 122 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:03.399 the region. This other type of government in the region 123 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:09.279 was really important and it was very necessary that people 124 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:13.240 understood that there could be socialism. And people did not 125 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:16.240 want to believe this. They, I mean, sorry, the United 126 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:19.279 States did not want people to believe this. So it 127 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:23.480 was a big deal and it happened, and the United 128 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:27.279 States was very against this, and the United States was 129 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:33.840 also very fearful of Maurice Bishop because Grenada, unlike Cuba, 130 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:38.399 was an English speaking was an English speech speaking country. 131 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:44.840 So they were very concerned that Grenada, in achieving this 132 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:49.240 alliance with Castro, would be strengthened in its socialism and 133 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:54.039 thus would bring socialism to the United States. 134 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:56.759 And also of course to other parts of the region. 135 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:00.759 We have to acknowledge this because that that has always 136 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:06.120 been the effort suppress, suppress, suppress. Here's Maurice Bishop talking 137 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:10.960 about why the FBI was so concerned about Grenada, and 138 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:14.639 he's doing this in the United States at a talk. 139 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:21.120 The reason for all of this hostility is because some 140 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:25.240 perceive that what is happening in Grenada can lead up 141 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:31.559 a new socioeconomic and political part of development. They give 142 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:35.000 all kinds of reasons and excuses, some of them. 143 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:40.519 Credible, some utter rubbish. There's an interesting one that we 144 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:43.879 saw very recently in a secret report of the State Department. 145 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:46.080 I want to tell you about that one so you 146 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:51.080 can reflect on that one. That secret report near this 147 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:55.360 point that Grenada is different to Cuba and Nicaragua, and 148 00:11:55.440 --> 00:12:00.519 the Grenada revolution is in one sense even worse using 149 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:05.679 their language than the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions because the 150 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:08.759 people of Grenada and the leadership of Grenada speaks English 151 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:12.159 and therefore can communicate directly to the. 152 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:13.919 People of of the United States. 153 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:17.759 I can see from an applause system. 154 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:19.679 And brothers that you agree with the report. 155 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:24.799 But I want to tell you what that same report 156 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:30.639 also said and said that also made us very dangerous, 157 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:33.320 and that is that. 158 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:35.960 The people of Grenada and the leadership of Grenada are 159 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:37.080 predominantly black. 160 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:42.399 They said that ninety five percent. 161 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:45.200 Of our population is black, and they had a correct statistic. 162 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:53.639 So we must also acknowledge again that blackness has been 163 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:58.799 at a center position in the colonializing, in the colonizing 164 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:02.240 of this region and supprise. When people try and make 165 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:05.720 it like race doesn't matter, it's about economy, you're ignoring 166 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:08.840 the fact that race has been an integral tool to 167 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:14.559 upholding economy and to suppressing Okay, that's not by accident. 168 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:18.559 That's also because the fact is that when people were 169 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:22.000 stolen and trafficked across these waters and brought to these nations, 170 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:26.960 they didn't do so quietly. There is a DNA within 171 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:31.240 us that still says we need to get ours and 172 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:34.720 many of the people in the Caribbean and in South 173 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:37.960 America were not about that life, and they actually were 174 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:40.919 my rooins, and they fought and they escaped, and they 175 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.360 started their own organizations, their own company. 176 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:46.679 Sorry, well they did start their own companies, their own tribes, 177 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:47.399 et cetera. 178 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:52.559 So we cannot discount that they know that that racial 179 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:57.519 unity is absolutely an aspect that they need to continue 180 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:02.240 to suppress, and so in doing so, they came into Grenada. 181 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:08.080 In nineteen eighty three, they actually got in between Maurice 182 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:11.679 Bishop and his partner, Bernard Cord. Bernard Cord flipped. Next 183 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:14.200 thing you know, Maurice Bishop was killed in front of 184 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:14.960 a firing squad. 185 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:17.279 We don't even know where his body is to this day. 186 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:19.600 They also put his pregnant girlfriend in front of a 187 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:25.960 fireing squad. And we also know that in nineteen eighty 188 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:31.159 three they invaded using a soft power technique. Grenada does 189 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:35.840 not have a military base. However, in Fidel Castro building 190 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:39.039 our airport, they tried to say that that was a 191 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:43.039 military base being built by Cuba. Grenada does not have 192 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:46.000 a US military base, but it does have a medical school, 193 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:49.720 and the medical school in Grenada is very strongly founded 194 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:56.679 by Americans and attended by Americans. Thus, They used the 195 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:01.440 presence of Americans at the medical school as a manufactured 196 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:06.720 consent to then invade Grenada and decide, well, we have 197 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:09.120 to come in here because we have Americans here and 198 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:12.159 you guys are spreading communism and we can't have that. 199 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:18.440 This is an example of soft power leading to hard power. 200 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:24.960 The nineteen ninety four NAFTA deal, so the North American 201 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:31.159 Free Trade Agreement was essentially an agreement made between Mexico, Canada, 202 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:34.919 and the United States that cut off trade with everyone 203 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:38.399 else in the Caribbean and made it so that these 204 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:42.200 countries were just trading between each other, which again made 205 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:44.120 it white on white on white. And if you think 206 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:47.559 Mexico doesn't have white people, yeah, bug in Okay. Mexico 207 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:53.480 absolutely has its own elite, and those capitalists elite really. 208 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:55.799 Are not with it. They do not like any of 209 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:56.559 this nonsense. 210 00:15:57.080 --> 00:16:00.879 So those folks all aligned with each other and got together, 211 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:05.559 and it created a huge economic shift in the region. 212 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:10.240 The Caribbean was no longer able to sustain as a 213 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:15.360 part of trade. Grenada had been the number two trader 214 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:18.720 for spices, but after India, that's why we. 215 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:20.840 Have a literal nutmeg. 216 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:25.879 On our flag, and after NAFTA that was a rap 217 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:30.559 so that limited the ability to trade from agriculture. It 218 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:34.080 limited the ability for them to control their prices, and 219 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:37.919 it made it so that they now controlled what the 220 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.480 prices were for these items across the world. When we 221 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:46.320 talk about the Banana Republic, that is them deciding that 222 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:49.799 bananas should only cost a certain amount. And if these 223 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:52.519 countries in Central America were going to change the prices, 224 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:56.840 then they were going to change the actual power structure 225 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:01.320 in those countries. You think some times that this is 226 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:06.079 only about oil. They want to control everything, and if 227 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:10.519 you look at the colonization of Africa, you understand it's 228 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:14.000 not simply just about controlling oil and uranium. They wanted 229 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:17.240 to control the rubber, They want to control the white beans. 230 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:22.200 They want to control everything, tobacco, sugar, cane. Everything is 231 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:27.200 able to be financialized everything. When we talk about the 232 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:30.200 Caribbean and the nineteen ninety four NAFTA deal, it was 233 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:33.480 a huge blow that has forever shifted the ability of 234 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:36.079 the Caribbean to be sovereign, and thus it has to 235 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:41.000 be intrinsically again, intrinsically attached to the United States. This 236 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:44.039 is also when we see tourism take a huge boom. 237 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:51.160 But tourism is nothing other than just traveling colonization because 238 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:53.480 the people on the islands can't even afford to go 239 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:56.799 to the other islands like that. Now, yes, there is 240 00:17:56.839 --> 00:17:59.279 the Cara Coom, which is supposed to be the union 241 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:01.480 of all the islands coming together. 242 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:04.359 However, the Cara com gets disrupted when you have. 243 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:08.599 Individuals like Kamala and Trinidad and other nations having to 244 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:11.240 do trade agreements with the US or feeling like they 245 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:13.799 should do trade agreements with the US that end up 246 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:17.359 shutting out other nations in the Caribbean instead of actually 247 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:21.359 working within the Caribbean to strengthen their unity and operate 248 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:27.480 with unity to the US. Let's talk about the destabilizing 249 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:40.519 of Haiti. The United States has been committed from even 250 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:47.599 the Lincoln era to keeping the Caribbean, and specifically Haiti, 251 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:53.200 from ever thinking for a second that it can rise 252 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:54.440 back up. 253 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:57.079 Let me just take a. 254 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:00.880 Moment when people say statements like this Caribbean is not 255 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:03.880 going to achieve solidarity, correct leadership and proximity to the 256 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:09.599 US are immutable obstacles. I have a real I have 257 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:14.640 a real frustration with people like you because you haven't 258 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:18.359 lived forever, and you're not going to live forever. You're 259 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:24.200 speaking in forevers that you have no real ability to 260 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:32.839 stand on, and you are infusing your own defeatism while 261 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:41.039 haralding the United States as some insurmountable enemy, which is 262 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:45.920 just simply not the case. And anytime you bring that 263 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:50.279 energy into the conversation, I am going to call you 264 00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:55.000 out because that is the same energy of Harriet Tubman's 265 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:59.440 husband who told her don't run away. It's better that 266 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:04.480 you stay with your master who knows you, than going 267 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:08.880 and getting in trouble. Now you've got someone else here 268 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:12.279 who says but he ain't wrong. And I have no 269 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:17.480 idea why you all are so committed to thinking you 270 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:19.480 are right and I consider you to be ops. 271 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:23.720 So Rolando, please remove them, remove people. 272 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:27.400 In here who do not believe that we can make 273 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:30.400 any change, because I don't want that energy in this space. 274 00:20:31.319 --> 00:20:34.119 I am not saying the change will happen today. I'm 275 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:37.240 not saying it can happen tomorrow. But I will never 276 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:42.000 for a second give the United States and colonialism the 277 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:45.480 power of believing that it is impervious to harm. 278 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:47.400 Never again. 279 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:56.200 Even having an inkling of that is a cancer that spreads. 280 00:20:56.799 --> 00:20:58.839 Get that op mindset out of here. 281 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:06.720 The destabilizing of Haiti is largely put and grounded in 282 00:21:06.759 --> 00:21:10.440 the fact that, of course it t was the first 283 00:21:12.359 --> 00:21:19.799 to achieve independence from its colonizer. Unfortunately, it has never 284 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:25.039 been able to achieve true independence because they have consistently. 285 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:26.920 Kept it destabilized. 286 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:31.759 They have consistently invaded its shores, both in physical form 287 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:38.359 and in other deleterious methods. In for instance, Israel has 288 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:43.640 provided Haiti with Haitian militias and Haitian gangs with actual 289 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:45.640 weapons to keep them destabilized. 290 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:52.480 We have the CIA, which has consistently. 291 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:54.519 Gone in and taken out whoever they feel like it 292 00:21:54.599 --> 00:21:59.960 is trying to bring Haiti to sovereignty. We had former 293 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:03.599 our economics advisor Jeffrey Sachs on the show who said 294 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:06.799 straight up that Moissee who is pictured here, told him 295 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:08.039 they're coming to get me. 296 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:11.000 And he was like, no, the CIA is not coming 297 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:13.119 to get you, and then he got murked. 298 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:17.480 And now you see Jeffrey all over the world trying 299 00:22:17.480 --> 00:22:21.200 to tell people these folks is a problem. 300 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:25.839 Don't trust them, don't trust them. 301 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:33.720 France has been stealing from Haiti since Haiti got its independence. 302 00:22:35.160 --> 00:22:39.119 We also have to acknowledge the ways in which there 303 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:43.039 have been direct infringement upon their food sovereignty. And I 304 00:22:43.160 --> 00:22:46.720 want to keep coming back to food sovereignty. A people 305 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:54.720 who cannot feed themselves are slaves. It may not be 306 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.680 to the extent to which we were an enslaved people 307 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:01.119 working in the cane fields, but we are are still 308 00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:06.119 in the same way, run by a higher hand that 309 00:23:06.279 --> 00:23:10.359 determines whether or not we can care for ourselves and 310 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:16.160 how we can care for ourselves. Bill Clinton, in his 311 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:21.279 imperialist mindset, decided, this is what we're gonna do with 312 00:23:21.319 --> 00:23:25.279 you all Haiti, the Haitians who were at the top, 313 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:28.480 and again there are always going to be people at 314 00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:32.000 the top who will sell out their people. The people 315 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:34.880 at the top said, all right, we're gonna rock with you, 316 00:23:35.319 --> 00:23:39.640 and we're going to actually become an ex an import business. 317 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:43.920 And so they made deals with the United States and 318 00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:48.279 NAFTA to be an import only business, even though Haiti 319 00:23:48.359 --> 00:23:50.799 had a large agrarian. 320 00:23:50.160 --> 00:23:51.599 Business of rice. 321 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:56.599 So now you had Haitians who, instead of eating their 322 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:02.400 own rice, were importing rice from Arkansas and from Thailand. 323 00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:07.000 You'll see here that these bags say product of Thailand. 324 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:10.400 But you'll notice that the imagery on them and the 325 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:13.799 writing on them makes it seem as though they are 326 00:24:13.960 --> 00:24:19.599 actually from Haiti. That is not by accident. Bill Clinton 327 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:22.960 eventually came and actually apologized. 328 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:24.400 Now I will not front. 329 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:27.200 I have not been able to get deep in the 330 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:30.319 weeds for what the real reason why he apologized is. 331 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:33.720 But here he is saying, my bad Haiti. 332 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:51.240 Rich countries that produced a lot of foods should sell 333 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:54.079 it to poor countries and relieve them of the burden 334 00:24:54.119 --> 00:24:56.519 of producing their own foods. So thank goodness, they can 335 00:24:56.599 --> 00:24:59.960 lead directly into the industrial era. It has not worked. 336 00:25:01.160 --> 00:25:02.000 It's maybe been. 337 00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:03.799 Good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but. 338 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:06.599 It has not worked. It was a mistake. 339 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:09.400 It was a mistake that I was a Party two. 340 00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:12.319 I am not wanting to figure at anybody. 341 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:13.960 I did that. I had to live every day with 342 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:16.720 the consequences of the lost capacity. 343 00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:27.400 The unmitigated caucacity of stating that you completely disrupting and 344 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:34.640 destabilizing an entire country's ability to feed itself is about 345 00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:37.960 you having to live with the repercussions of that. 346 00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:41.599 They never ceased to amaze me. 347 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:44.640 I see to produce a rice crop and Haiti to 348 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:49.119 feed those people because of what I did, nobody else. 349 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:54.200 Now shout out to folks like doctor Bertrude Albert, who 350 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:57.839 was pictured now, who was pictured in the video. There 351 00:25:57.960 --> 00:26:02.440 is efforts to restore the ability for Haitians to actually 352 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:05.079 grow their own rice. She has been working for years 353 00:26:05.359 --> 00:26:09.000 to build a canal that allows for water to be 354 00:26:09.160 --> 00:26:13.920 redistributed back out to the field to restore the Haitian 355 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:17.240 rice fields, which will also give them the opportunity. 356 00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:19.200 To create their own sovereignty. 357 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:22.000 Now, she was on Views from She was on my 358 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:25.519 podcast Small Doses rest and p Small Doses podcast. She 359 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:29.319 was Osamaldos's pod Small Doses podcast two years ago. 360 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:32.279 Let's listen big fear of Haiti. 361 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:35.160 Even today, someone might say, like, well, slavery's abolished, why 362 00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:37.960 would the United States fear Haiti? A lot of people 363 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:40.960 don't know. In two thousand and four, Haitian president Alisted, 364 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:44.319 the first democratically elected president, i Lei Steed. He was 365 00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:49.079 overthrown and the two players that orchestrated this Coupdetta was 366 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:51.200 the United States in France. But why did they do that? 367 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:55.200 It's because Ili Steed, he stood before the UN he 368 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:57.319 stood before the world and said Haiti had to pay 369 00:26:57.319 --> 00:26:59.960 an indemnity. We paid the equivalent of twenty one billion 370 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:03.079 dollars for our freedom. France forced us to pay this money. 371 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:05.920 And now the calculations are it's between twenty one billion 372 00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:08.960 to thirty billion dollars France must pay Haiti back. And 373 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:12.960 so there's this big fear. Now if France pays Haiti back, 374 00:27:13.079 --> 00:27:16.559 what about the other former class? What about black people 375 00:27:16.640 --> 00:27:19.000 in the United States and the reparation that they're owed 376 00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:22.400 for slavery. And so if you destabilize Haiti, if you 377 00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:25.519 take Ali Stid out of power, that discussion ends, and 378 00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:28.839 essentially it did end. 379 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:34.400 So that's doctor Bertrude Albert, and she's brilliant and has 380 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:41.839 been so said fast at helping to bring Haiti back into. 381 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:42.559 The ability to support itself. 382 00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:44.799 Even in the midst of all the news that we 383 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:48.799 hear about destabilizing of Haiti, we have to understand that 384 00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:51.640 there are folks who are on the ground doing the work. 385 00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:54.960 And I am a large believer and I will stand 386 00:27:55.039 --> 00:28:01.599 on this that Haiti is the key to the Western 387 00:28:01.599 --> 00:28:05.359 hemisphere being freed, the same way that Philistine is the 388 00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:07.960 key to the East being freed. 389 00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:09.880 One thousand percent. 390 00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:15.920 Now, part of the destabilizing of Haiti was also carried 391 00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:20.960 out because of the ability for the La de Pelago Dominicana, 392 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:23.759 which was next door to it, to keep watch for 393 00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:29.720 the United States while continuously repressing Haitians. Rafael tru Huido 394 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:34.279 was put in place in nineteen thirty and. 395 00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:44.160 He was wait, I'm messing up. Rafael Trujido was put. 396 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:51.079 In place, and he was actually in power till nineteen 397 00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:56.119 sixty one, I think when he was assassinated. Now, Truhido 398 00:28:56.599 --> 00:28:58.759 was a very light skinned man who came up through 399 00:28:58.759 --> 00:28:59.880 the ranks of the military. 400 00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:02.880 When the US was occupying. 401 00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:06.680