Haiti: If I could reach CNN’s audience on the 4th of July ...On this July 4th, if HLLN could reach CNN’s audience, I’d explain how slavery continues for most of the global south through unfettered capitalism’s neoliberal globalization, humanitarian aid and wars to bring democracy and “help.”. .. I would quote this Douglas paragraph when speaking of the “swelling vanity” of the US/Clinton/Obama/Bush/Paul Farmer/UN/the NGOs and their gross injustice, cruelty and status quo crimes to which Haiti and the global south are constant victims as they profit and celebrate themselves at Harvard, the White House, et al: “O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation’s ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced…” ezilidanto/zili/2012/07/4100/
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 23:03:38 +0000
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