Speaker 1: What do I want to do, Guys? Do I want
Speaker 1: to make it blacker news or critical thinking exercise? It's
Speaker 1: really it's about which intro I want to play. So
Speaker 1: you know which I'm going to play, right, Actually, both
Speaker 1: of them are so good.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: It's a blacker news critical thinking exercise, That's what it is.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's both.
Speaker 1: So we are watching the United States make a grand
Speaker 1: effort at starting a war with Venezuela to steal their resources.
Speaker 2: We know this, We're watching it. This is the facts.
Speaker 1: They are getting support, however, from a number of places,
Speaker 1: including Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago is an island
Speaker 1: that is the last island of the Caribbean. It is
Speaker 1: right done here and it is very close to Venezuela.
Speaker 1: They share waters. There has been some accusations that Venezuela
Speaker 1: has tried to steal oil from Trinidad, and this has
Speaker 1: been used as legitimizing of why Trinidad would be in
Speaker 1: cahoots with the United States. However, I will state conclusively
Speaker 1: here and now that the truth of the matter is
Speaker 1: that the United States colonized the Caribbean.
Speaker 2: That is not some like weird assertion that I'm making.
Speaker 1: It is a basic, bottom line fact. And unfortunately, in
Speaker 1: that colonizing they will of course have folks who are
Speaker 1: going along with their ride. And I want to break
Speaker 1: down for you guys the myriad ways that has happened.
Speaker 1: But first let's show the President, sorry, the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: of Trinidad and Tobago and her latest commentary that she
Speaker 1: voiced in response to island opposition of trade and Tobago
Speaker 1: being used as a military outpost in aggressions against Venezuela.
Speaker 4: You worry about radar and you worry about Venezuela.
Speaker 2: Don't worry.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you something. You know, I think it's
Speaker 4: the height of hypocrisy and unkindness that your people in
Speaker 4: our country who want to fight the Americans. Tonight, I
Speaker 4: say it again, I stand in bilateral relationships with the.
Speaker 2: United States of America.
Speaker 4: They are amongst our oldest trading partners. One there are
Speaker 4: largest trading partner in terms of millions of dollars trade
Speaker 4: between US with Venezuela. We have point zero zero zero
Speaker 4: treat with the United States. Minnesota Trada. You Heal Kennedy.
Speaker 2: You may know.
Speaker 4: Billions of dollars in trade.
Speaker 2: Let's really take a look.
Speaker 1: When she says that the United States are friends, Let's
Speaker 1: take a look at how the United States has colonized
Speaker 1: the Caribbean. I said recently that the United States is
Speaker 1: basically I'm sorry, I said recently that the Caribbean is
Speaker 1: the Africa of the Western Hemisphere in that it has
Speaker 1: been systematically destabilized in its resources stolen. Now, when this
Speaker 1: woman says, well, you know, we have trade with the
Speaker 1: United States and we don't have trade with Venezuela, this
Speaker 1: is not because of some genuine reasoning for why the
Speaker 1: United States is trading the Trinidad and not Thenezuela. It
Speaker 1: is solely because keeping Trinidad inextricably linked in economy to
Speaker 1: the United States keeps them in their back pocket. This
Speaker 1: is an example of soft power. It also allows for
Speaker 1: them to continue to control the Sorry, it allows them
Speaker 1: to continue to control Trinidad, and thus they are not
Speaker 1: operating as a sovereign nation. This is another example of colonialism.
Speaker 1: We know that the term colonizer went out of fashion
Speaker 1: after World War Two. However, the action did not go
Speaker 1: out of fashion. So I'm gonna take you through a
Speaker 1: series of ways in which the United States has colonized
Speaker 1: the Caribbean.
Speaker 2: Now, someone asked, is she scared of the US?
Speaker 1: No, and I think that it's very I want you
Speaker 1: guys to really stop trying to apply your version of
Speaker 1: humanism to these individuals in power, because it's not practical.
Speaker 1: They haven't demonstrated anything to give us reason to give
Speaker 1: them that type of benefit of the doubt. So let's
Speaker 1: start and I will come back to this woman. I
Speaker 1: will come back to her, because it all connects. First,
Speaker 1: in nineteen thirties, Puerto Rico experienced sterilization on such a
Speaker 1: mass level that one and three Puerto Rican women were sterilized.
Speaker 1: This is because the United States decided that Puerto Rico
Speaker 1: was overpopulated. They literally, unbeknownst to the population of Puerto Rico,
Speaker 1: prevented women from being able to give birth because they
Speaker 1: had colonized the country and decided that they wanted there
Speaker 1: to be less people on the island. This is an
Speaker 1: example of hard power, and this doesn't get talked enough,
Speaker 1: talked about enough, largely in part because it is violence
Speaker 1: against women. Now, whenever it's violence against men and armies, etc.
Speaker 1: We hold that at a very different standard. However, violence
Speaker 1: against women and the usurping of the rights to their
Speaker 1: bodies is also warfare, and it is also hard power.
Speaker 1: We are literally seeing it right now in the Sudan
Speaker 1: and Congo and in the immense amounts of sexual assault cases.
Speaker 1: This is done to continuously keep the population in a
Speaker 1: state of fear. We see this in how these men
Speaker 1: go to different countries under the American flag and they
Speaker 1: commit assault against members of those countries. We see that
Speaker 1: in the comfort women. We see that in Japan, in Okinawa.
Speaker 1: We see this all over, and we know that it
Speaker 1: is not just a matter of boys will be boys,
Speaker 1: or of literally just men being bad men. It is allowed,
Speaker 1: It is absolutely supported, and it is projected because it
Speaker 1: is an act of colonialism and it continues to not
Speaker 1: only put the women in fear, but their husbands, their fathers,
Speaker 1: their brothers.
Speaker 2: It puts them in fear.
Speaker 1: Next the nineteen eighty three Grenada invasion. In nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 1: you had Maurice Bishop, who was a young man in
Speaker 1: Grenada and he said, you know, I'm actually going to
Speaker 1: do a coup and overthrow Gary and I'm going to
Speaker 1: bring socialism into Grenada. So he actually leads a revolution
Speaker 1: in Grenada called the New Duwel Movement and the goal
Speaker 1: is to bring socialism and possibly communism to Grenada. In
Speaker 1: doing so, he becomes really tight with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
Speaker 2: Now, even though the.
Speaker 1: Even though the what's it called the Cold War really
Speaker 1: was at its height in the sixties, we know that
Speaker 1: it also got it didn't get fully disseminated or fully
Speaker 1: dissolved until the eighties. And the truth of the matter
Speaker 1: is that Fidel Castro presented as an example of a
Speaker 1: winner because he did successfully overthrow the government. And whether
Speaker 1: or not you feel his rule was authoritarian, et cetera,
Speaker 1: it doesn't change the fact that he successfully over threw
Speaker 1: the government, and in doing so, he was able to
Speaker 1: show that there could be another type of government in
Speaker 1: the region. This other type of government in the region
Speaker 1: was really important and it was very necessary that people
Speaker 1: understood that there could be socialism. And people did not
Speaker 1: want to believe this. They, I mean, sorry, the United
Speaker 1: States did not want people to believe this. So it
Speaker 1: was a big deal and it happened, and the United
Speaker 1: States was very against this, and the United States was
Speaker 1: also very fearful of Maurice Bishop because Grenada, unlike Cuba,
Speaker 1: was an English speaking was an English speech speaking country.
Speaker 1: So they were very concerned that Grenada, in achieving this
Speaker 1: alliance with Castro, would be strengthened in its socialism and
Speaker 1: thus would bring socialism to the United States.
Speaker 2: And also of course to other parts of the region.
Speaker 1: We have to acknowledge this because that that has always
Speaker 1: been the effort suppress, suppress, suppress. Here's Maurice Bishop talking
Speaker 1: about why the FBI was so concerned about Grenada, and
Speaker 1: he's doing this in the United States at a talk.
Speaker 5: The reason for all of this hostility is because some
Speaker 5: perceive that what is happening in Grenada can lead up
Speaker 5: a new socioeconomic and political part of development. They give
Speaker 5: all kinds of reasons and excuses, some of them.
Speaker 6: Credible, some utter rubbish. There's an interesting one that we
Speaker 6: saw very recently in a secret report of the State Department.
Speaker 6: I want to tell you about that one so you
Speaker 6: can reflect on that one. That secret report near this
Speaker 6: point that Grenada is different to Cuba and Nicaragua, and
Speaker 6: the Grenada revolution is in one sense even worse using
Speaker 6: their language than the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions because the
Speaker 6: people of Grenada and the leadership of Grenada speaks English
Speaker 6: and therefore can communicate directly to the.
Speaker 2: People of of the United States.
Speaker 5: I can see from an applause system.
Speaker 6: And brothers that you agree with the report.
Speaker 7: But I want to tell you what that same report
Speaker 7: also said and said that also made us very dangerous,
Speaker 7: and that is that.
Speaker 6: The people of Grenada and the leadership of Grenada are
Speaker 6: predominantly black.
Speaker 2: They said that ninety five percent.
Speaker 6: Of our population is black, and they had a correct statistic.
Speaker 1: So we must also acknowledge again that blackness has been
Speaker 1: at a center position in the colonializing, in the colonizing
Speaker 1: of this region and supprise. When people try and make
Speaker 1: it like race doesn't matter, it's about economy, you're ignoring
Speaker 1: the fact that race has been an integral tool to
Speaker 1: upholding economy and to suppressing Okay, that's not by accident.
Speaker 1: That's also because the fact is that when people were
Speaker 1: stolen and trafficked across these waters and brought to these nations,
Speaker 1: they didn't do so quietly. There is a DNA within
Speaker 1: us that still says we need to get ours and
Speaker 1: many of the people in the Caribbean and in South
Speaker 1: America were not about that life, and they actually were
Speaker 1: my rooins, and they fought and they escaped, and they
Speaker 1: started their own organizations, their own company.
Speaker 2: Sorry, well they did start their own companies, their own tribes,
Speaker 2: et cetera.
Speaker 1: So we cannot discount that they know that that racial
Speaker 1: unity is absolutely an aspect that they need to continue
Speaker 1: to suppress, and so in doing so, they came into Grenada.
Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty three, they actually got in between Maurice
Speaker 1: Bishop and his partner, Bernard Cord. Bernard Cord flipped. Next
Speaker 1: thing you know, Maurice Bishop was killed in front of
Speaker 1: a firing squad.
Speaker 2: We don't even know where his body is to this day.
Speaker 1: They also put his pregnant girlfriend in front of a
Speaker 1: fireing squad. And we also know that in nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: three they invaded using a soft power technique. Grenada does
Speaker 1: not have a military base. However, in Fidel Castro building
Speaker 1: our airport, they tried to say that that was a
Speaker 1: military base being built by Cuba. Grenada does not have
Speaker 1: a US military base, but it does have a medical school,
Speaker 1: and the medical school in Grenada is very strongly founded
Speaker 1: by Americans and attended by Americans. Thus, They used the
Speaker 1: presence of Americans at the medical school as a manufactured
Speaker 1: consent to then invade Grenada and decide, well, we have
Speaker 1: to come in here because we have Americans here and
Speaker 1: you guys are spreading communism and we can't have that.
Speaker 1: This is an example of soft power leading to hard power.
Speaker 1: The nineteen ninety four NAFTA deal, so the North American
Speaker 1: Free Trade Agreement was essentially an agreement made between Mexico, Canada,
Speaker 1: and the United States that cut off trade with everyone
Speaker 1: else in the Caribbean and made it so that these
Speaker 1: countries were just trading between each other, which again made
Speaker 1: it white on white on white. And if you think
Speaker 1: Mexico doesn't have white people, yeah, bug in Okay. Mexico
Speaker 1: absolutely has its own elite, and those capitalists elite really.
Speaker 2: Are not with it. They do not like any of
Speaker 2: this nonsense.
Speaker 1: So those folks all aligned with each other and got together,
Speaker 1: and it created a huge economic shift in the region.
Speaker 1: The Caribbean was no longer able to sustain as a
Speaker 1: part of trade. Grenada had been the number two trader
Speaker 1: for spices, but after India, that's why we.
Speaker 2: Have a literal nutmeg.
Speaker 1: On our flag, and after NAFTA that was a rap
Speaker 1: so that limited the ability to trade from agriculture. It
Speaker 1: limited the ability for them to control their prices, and
Speaker 1: it made it so that they now controlled what the
Speaker 1: prices were for these items across the world. When we
Speaker 1: talk about the Banana Republic, that is them deciding that
Speaker 1: bananas should only cost a certain amount. And if these
Speaker 1: countries in Central America were going to change the prices,
Speaker 1: then they were going to change the actual power structure
Speaker 1: in those countries. You think some times that this is
Speaker 1: only about oil. They want to control everything, and if
Speaker 1: you look at the colonization of Africa, you understand it's
Speaker 1: not simply just about controlling oil and uranium. They wanted
Speaker 1: to control the rubber, They want to control the white beans.
Speaker 1: They want to control everything, tobacco, sugar, cane. Everything is
Speaker 1: able to be financialized everything. When we talk about the
Speaker 1: Caribbean and the nineteen ninety four NAFTA deal, it was
Speaker 1: a huge blow that has forever shifted the ability of
Speaker 1: the Caribbean to be sovereign, and thus it has to
Speaker 1: be intrinsically again, intrinsically attached to the United States. This
Speaker 1: is also when we see tourism take a huge boom.
Speaker 1: But tourism is nothing other than just traveling colonization because
Speaker 1: the people on the islands can't even afford to go
Speaker 1: to the other islands like that. Now, yes, there is
Speaker 1: the Cara Coom, which is supposed to be the union
Speaker 1: of all the islands coming together.
Speaker 2: However, the Cara com gets disrupted when you have.
Speaker 1: Individuals like Kamala and Trinidad and other nations having to
Speaker 1: do trade agreements with the US or feeling like they
Speaker 1: should do trade agreements with the US that end up
Speaker 1: shutting out other nations in the Caribbean instead of actually
Speaker 1: working within the Caribbean to strengthen their unity and operate
Speaker 1: with unity to the US. Let's talk about the destabilizing
Speaker 1: of Haiti. The United States has been committed from even
Speaker 1: the Lincoln era to keeping the Caribbean, and specifically Haiti,
Speaker 1: from ever thinking for a second that it can rise
Speaker 1: back up.
Speaker 2: Let me just take a.
Speaker 1: Moment when people say statements like this Caribbean is not
Speaker 1: going to achieve solidarity, correct leadership and proximity to the
Speaker 1: US are immutable obstacles. I have a real I have
Speaker 1: a real frustration with people like you because you haven't
Speaker 1: lived forever, and you're not going to live forever. You're
Speaker 1: speaking in forevers that you have no real ability to
Speaker 1: stand on, and you are infusing your own defeatism while
Speaker 1: haralding the United States as some insurmountable enemy, which is
Speaker 1: just simply not the case. And anytime you bring that
Speaker 1: energy into the conversation, I am going to call you
Speaker 1: out because that is the same energy of Harriet Tubman's
Speaker 1: husband who told her don't run away. It's better that
Speaker 1: you stay with your master who knows you, than going
Speaker 1: and getting in trouble. Now you've got someone else here
Speaker 1: who says but he ain't wrong. And I have no
Speaker 1: idea why you all are so committed to thinking you
Speaker 1: are right and I consider you to be ops.
Speaker 2: So Rolando, please remove them, remove people.
Speaker 1: In here who do not believe that we can make
Speaker 1: any change, because I don't want that energy in this space.
Speaker 1: I am not saying the change will happen today. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it can happen tomorrow. But I will never
Speaker 1: for a second give the United States and colonialism the
Speaker 1: power of believing that it is impervious to harm.
Speaker 2: Never again.
Speaker 1: Even having an inkling of that is a cancer that spreads.
Speaker 2: Get that op mindset out of here.
Speaker 1: The destabilizing of Haiti is largely put and grounded in
Speaker 1: the fact that, of course it t was the first
Speaker 1: to achieve independence from its colonizer. Unfortunately, it has never
Speaker 1: been able to achieve true independence because they have consistently.
Speaker 2: Kept it destabilized.
Speaker 1: They have consistently invaded its shores, both in physical form
Speaker 1: and in other deleterious methods. In for instance, Israel has
Speaker 1: provided Haiti with Haitian militias and Haitian gangs with actual
Speaker 1: weapons to keep them destabilized.
Speaker 2: We have the CIA, which has consistently.
Speaker 1: Gone in and taken out whoever they feel like it
Speaker 1: is trying to bring Haiti to sovereignty. We had former
Speaker 1: our economics advisor Jeffrey Sachs on the show who said
Speaker 1: straight up that Moissee who is pictured here, told him
Speaker 1: they're coming to get me.
Speaker 2: And he was like, no, the CIA is not coming
Speaker 2: to get you, and then he got murked.
Speaker 1: And now you see Jeffrey all over the world trying
Speaker 1: to tell people these folks is a problem.
Speaker 2: Don't trust them, don't trust them.
Speaker 1: France has been stealing from Haiti since Haiti got its independence.
Speaker 1: We also have to acknowledge the ways in which there
Speaker 1: have been direct infringement upon their food sovereignty. And I
Speaker 1: want to keep coming back to food sovereignty. A people
Speaker 1: who cannot feed themselves are slaves. It may not be
Speaker 1: to the extent to which we were an enslaved people
Speaker 1: working in the cane fields, but we are are still
Speaker 1: in the same way, run by a higher hand that
Speaker 1: determines whether or not we can care for ourselves and
Speaker 1: how we can care for ourselves. Bill Clinton, in his
Speaker 1: imperialist mindset, decided, this is what we're gonna do with
Speaker 1: you all Haiti, the Haitians who were at the top,
Speaker 1: and again there are always going to be people at
Speaker 1: the top who will sell out their people. The people
Speaker 1: at the top said, all right, we're gonna rock with you,
Speaker 1: and we're going to actually become an ex an import business.
Speaker 1: And so they made deals with the United States and
Speaker 1: NAFTA to be an import only business, even though Haiti
Speaker 1: had a large agrarian.
Speaker 2: Business of rice.
Speaker 1: So now you had Haitians who, instead of eating their
Speaker 1: own rice, were importing rice from Arkansas and from Thailand.
Speaker 1: You'll see here that these bags say product of Thailand.
Speaker 1: But you'll notice that the imagery on them and the
Speaker 1: writing on them makes it seem as though they are
Speaker 1: actually from Haiti. That is not by accident. Bill Clinton
Speaker 1: eventually came and actually apologized.
Speaker 2: Now I will not front.
Speaker 1: I have not been able to get deep in the
Speaker 1: weeds for what the real reason why he apologized is.
Speaker 2: But here he is saying, my bad Haiti.
Speaker 3: Rich countries that produced a lot of foods should sell
Speaker 3: it to poor countries and relieve them of the burden
Speaker 3: of producing their own foods. So thank goodness, they can
Speaker 3: lead directly into the industrial era. It has not worked.
Speaker 2: It's maybe been.
Speaker 1: Good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but.
Speaker 3: It has not worked. It was a mistake.
Speaker 1: It was a mistake that I was a Party two.
Speaker 4: I am not wanting to figure at anybody.
Speaker 3: I did that. I had to live every day with
Speaker 3: the consequences of the lost capacity.
Speaker 1: The unmitigated caucacity of stating that you completely disrupting and
Speaker 1: destabilizing an entire country's ability to feed itself is about
Speaker 1: you having to live with the repercussions of that.
Speaker 2: They never ceased to amaze me.
Speaker 3: I see to produce a rice crop and Haiti to
Speaker 3: feed those people because of what I did, nobody else.
Speaker 1: Now shout out to folks like doctor Bertrude Albert, who
Speaker 1: was pictured now, who was pictured in the video. There
Speaker 1: is efforts to restore the ability for Haitians to actually
Speaker 1: grow their own rice. She has been working for years
Speaker 1: to build a canal that allows for water to be
Speaker 1: redistributed back out to the field to restore the Haitian
Speaker 1: rice fields, which will also give them the opportunity.
Speaker 2: To create their own sovereignty.
Speaker 1: Now, she was on Views from She was on my
Speaker 1: podcast Small Doses rest and p Small Doses podcast. She
Speaker 1: was Osamaldos's pod Small Doses podcast two years ago.
Speaker 2: Let's listen big fear of Haiti.
Speaker 8: Even today, someone might say, like, well, slavery's abolished, why
Speaker 8: would the United States fear Haiti? A lot of people
Speaker 8: don't know. In two thousand and four, Haitian president Alisted,
Speaker 8: the first democratically elected president, i Lei Steed. He was
Speaker 8: overthrown and the two players that orchestrated this Coupdetta was
Speaker 8: the United States in France. But why did they do that?
Speaker 8: It's because Ili Steed, he stood before the UN he
Speaker 8: stood before the world and said Haiti had to pay
Speaker 8: an indemnity. We paid the equivalent of twenty one billion
Speaker 8: dollars for our freedom. France forced us to pay this money.
Speaker 8: And now the calculations are it's between twenty one billion
Speaker 8: to thirty billion dollars France must pay Haiti back. And
Speaker 8: so there's this big fear. Now if France pays Haiti back,
Speaker 8: what about the other former class? What about black people
Speaker 8: in the United States and the reparation that they're owed
Speaker 8: for slavery. And so if you destabilize Haiti, if you
Speaker 8: take Ali Stid out of power, that discussion ends, and
Speaker 8: essentially it did end.
Speaker 1: So that's doctor Bertrude Albert, and she's brilliant and has
Speaker 1: been so said fast at helping to bring Haiti back into.
Speaker 2: The ability to support itself.
Speaker 1: Even in the midst of all the news that we
Speaker 1: hear about destabilizing of Haiti, we have to understand that
Speaker 1: there are folks who are on the ground doing the work.
Speaker 1: And I am a large believer and I will stand
Speaker 1: on this that Haiti is the key to the Western
Speaker 1: hemisphere being freed, the same way that Philistine is the
Speaker 1: key to the East being freed.
Speaker 2: One thousand percent.
Speaker 1: Now, part of the destabilizing of Haiti was also carried
Speaker 1: out because of the ability for the La de Pelago Dominicana,
Speaker 1: which was next door to it, to keep watch for
Speaker 1: the United States while continuously repressing Haitians. Rafael tru Huido
Speaker 1: was put in place in nineteen thirty and.
Speaker 2: He was wait, I'm messing up. Rafael Trujido was put.
Speaker 1: In place, and he was actually in power till nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty one, I think when he was assassinated. Now, Truhido
Speaker 1: was a very light skinned man who came up through
Speaker 1: the ranks of the military.
Speaker 2: When the US was occupying.
Speaker 1: There were Dominican Republic and he came up through the
Speaker 1: ranks very quickly and was put into power. He led
Speaker 1: in October nineteen thirty seven, from late sept Sorry, from
Speaker 1: September through October nineteen thirty seven, he led one of
Speaker 1: the most heinous genocides ever, with fifteen thousand Haitian men
Speaker 1: and children systemically systematically murdered on the orders of his
Speaker 1: on his own orders. Now, this happened along the borders of.
Speaker 2: The Haiti, the Haiti of Haiti and the demicant Dominican Republic.
Speaker 1: Now, this man wanted to be white so bad that
Speaker 1: he would powder his face.
Speaker 2: And he was deeply committed to carrying out.
Speaker 1: The suppression and repression of black folks in Haiti and
Speaker 1: in the region. Now, the women that you see there
Speaker 1: are damn it their names.
Speaker 2: Hold on. The women you see there are.
Speaker 1: Sisters who the medabout sisters who are Their story is
Speaker 1: put in historical fiction in the time of the butterflies.
Speaker 2: But he basically was, why.
Speaker 1: Can't I talk all of a sudden the meana about
Speaker 1: sisters were three women who were a part of the resistance. Okay,
Speaker 1: they were a part of the resistance against Tuhigo, and
Speaker 1: they were one. They were three of many who were
Speaker 1: consistently fighting Ruhidyo. Now Selene talks about the cult of personality.
Speaker 1: He was so about himself that yes, he named the
Speaker 1: capital Si Ruido, like he changed it from Sanko Domingo
Speaker 1: to Trujillo City.
Speaker 2: And this was.
Speaker 1: Going on for such a long time because the United
Speaker 1: States knew that as long as he was there, and
Speaker 1: he was capitulating to their wants and needs, and he
Speaker 1: was being friendly to what they were trying to do.
Speaker 2: And in World War two.
Speaker 1: He also you know, declared war against the all you know,
Speaker 1: with the Allies, et cetera, that they could have him
Speaker 1: in their back pocket. Because I have to remind you
Speaker 1: that the Caribbean is in the Western Hemisphere. The Caribbean
Speaker 1: is in the back pocket of the United States, and
Speaker 1: so many people do not think about this because they
Speaker 1: just think of it as a tourist destination. It is
Speaker 1: filled with resources filled. This brings us to Cuba, It's
Speaker 1: sanctions and Guantanamo. Now, the Cuban sanctions have been going
Speaker 1: on because again, like Maurice mentioned earlier, there has been
Speaker 1: a fear that socialism would spread in the region and
Speaker 1: that this would undermine not only capitalist intentions, but the
Speaker 1: ability for the United States to have power over all
Speaker 1: of these other countries. It is capitalism that allows them
Speaker 1: to be able to have that power because they are
Speaker 1: able to continue to use and wield the interests of
Speaker 1: the society's most degradated, most degraded people, which are the
Speaker 1: That's not how I want to put it.
Speaker 2: They are able to appeal to the interests.
Speaker 1: Of society's greedy and as long as they can psychologically
Speaker 1: control the greed addicted members of those societies, then they
Speaker 1: can control the societies at large.
Speaker 2: Socialism actively undermines the.
Speaker 1: Ability to actually gain capitalistically because the system itself does not.
Speaker 2: Strengthen does gain strength from that mindset.
Speaker 1: The stinstum itself is strengthened by actual cooperative working. So
Speaker 1: there is no reason for in a socialist environment that
Speaker 1: is truly socialist. For there's no ability in the same
Speaker 1: way for someone like the United States to be able
Speaker 1: to hold power. So there has been sanctions placed on
Speaker 1: Cuba for decades now that are continuing to diminish the
Speaker 1: ability for Cubans to live, to live freely, and for
Speaker 1: actual socialism to exist and thrive. So when people say, well,
Speaker 1: socialism hasn't really worked, that is not the case. Socialism
Speaker 1: has been met with sanctions, it has been met with impediments,
Speaker 1: it has been met with violence. And this is why
Speaker 1: we have to make sure that we go and read
Speaker 1: about the things that the US has said was bad.
Speaker 1: In addition, because I had someone say to me the
Speaker 1: other well, unlike Venezuela, the United States has never encroached
Speaker 1: upon Caribbean land, which is an absolute nonsense statement. Guantanamo Bay,
Speaker 1: you know the prison, Yeah, that's Cuba, y'all.
Speaker 2: Guantanamo Bay is Cuba.
Speaker 1: The reason why the United States still owns Guantanamo Bay
Speaker 1: goes all the way back to the Spanish American War.
Speaker 1: US forces joined up and they took Guantanamo from Spain
Speaker 1: during this war, and then after the war, when they
Speaker 1: occupied Cuba, they wrote a new constitution and inserted an
Speaker 1: amendment in that constitution that forced Cuba to sell or
Speaker 1: lease land to the US in order to maintain their independence.
Speaker 2: Now, I want to remind you.
Speaker 1: That folks always talk about how we can't change our constitution,
Speaker 1: et cetera.
Speaker 2: The United States rewrites constitutions like.
Speaker 1: Folks having like folks is rewriting their relationships with puff Daddy.
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch the puff Daddy documentary because
Speaker 1: I know it's going to be a bunch of liars.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's just going to literally be a
Speaker 1: bunch of people sitting in there pretending like they weren't
Speaker 1: there the entire time that all this was going on,
Speaker 1: and turning the other cheek.
Speaker 2: I don't got time for that.
Speaker 1: The United States has rewritten Japan's constitution, They've rewritten Cuba's constitution.
Speaker 1: They be rewriting constitutions like the Bible has been rewritten
Speaker 1: in whatever way it serves them. The Platt Amendment then
Speaker 1: got reupt in nineteen thirty four when there was a
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four treaty that again said that the US has.
Speaker 2: To be able to lease.
Speaker 1: This land from Cuba or else they will not be
Speaker 1: able to exist sovereign. So basically like, if you don't
Speaker 1: give us this, LANMD, We're going to invade you. This
Speaker 1: brings us to our beginning. Now, this is the Prime
Speaker 1: Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Her name is Kamala Posadsiness BISSESSR.
Speaker 2: And she is a member of the United National Congress.
Speaker 1: Now, there are two main parties in Trinidad, the United
Speaker 1: National Congress which is mostly Indian, and the People's National
Speaker 1: Movement which is mostly Afro Caribbean aka Black. I just
Speaker 1: want to replay what she said in the beginning to
Speaker 1: refresh your memory about where I'm about to go with this.
Speaker 2: You worry about.
Speaker 4: Raid On, you worry about Venezuela, don't worry, and I'll
Speaker 4: tell you something.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: I think it's the height of hypocris unkindness that their
Speaker 4: people in all country will want to fight the American Sonight,
Speaker 4: I say it again I stunned in bilateral relationships with
Speaker 4: the United States of America. They are amongst our oldest
Speaker 4: trading partners.
Speaker 1: One Kamala Persad missinessr became the first woman Prime Minister
Speaker 1: of Trinidad in twenty ten. She got to this position
Speaker 1: with the help of Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica is a
Speaker 1: now quote unquote defunct firm that uses use her data
Speaker 1: that it got from social media sites to help advance
Speaker 1: the interests of various companies and individuals. Among its founders
Speaker 1: and board members with Steve Bannon. As you know, Steve
Speaker 1: Bannon is a long time confidante and member of Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's inner circle. He was not the sole owner, but
Speaker 1: it was also largely owned by Republican megadonner Robert Mercer
Speaker 1: and family. Cambridge Analytica went in to Trinidad and put
Speaker 1: forth a campaign that would encourage apathy amongst the young voters.
Speaker 1: That apathy would be carried out culturally, because ultimately the
Speaker 1: Afro Trinidadians and the Indian Trinidadians were living differently in
Speaker 1: terms of their cultural makeup.
Speaker 2: I go about this in.
Speaker 1: Extensiveness in my smarty rants on Patreon that I did
Speaker 1: about Nicki Minaj and how she is connected to Republicans. However,
Speaker 1: the bite size, travel sized version I'll give you right here.
Speaker 2: Is that.
Speaker 1: This woman used duplicitus means via Cambridge Analytica to target
Speaker 1: the voting block of Trinidad and sway folks into apathy.
Speaker 1: Thus her voting block, the Indian folks, would show up
Speaker 1: in greater numbers and get her the position. It is
Speaker 1: no coincidence that Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer are part
Speaker 1: of the company that was employed to do this. She
Speaker 1: is now the Prime Minister of Trinidad. She is in
Speaker 1: support of the invasion of Venezuela. She has said to
Speaker 1: you right there that she is friends with the United States,
Speaker 1: which brings me back to my original thesis, which is
Speaker 1: that the United States colonized the Caribbean.
Speaker 2: They are not the friends of the Caribbean.
Speaker 1: And any members of Caribbean governments who are capitulating, who
Speaker 1: are supporting and who are allied with the United States
Speaker 1: are not in allyship with the people of the Caribbean.
Speaker 1: And so when we see people like this Prime Minister,
Speaker 1: when we see folks like there was with Truquido, we
Speaker 1: know that that is a member of a ruling class
Speaker 1: who is being fed by the capitalist dollars dripped in blood,
Speaker 1: and the only thing that will change that is political
Speaker 1: education around the Caribbean and the surrounding nations that reminds
Speaker 1: folks who they were before these people came and colonized
Speaker 1: them
Speaker 2: By the en