'West stokes war to prove blacks can't rule'

[seemslikeadream]

By Maureen Isaacson

The United Nations is a failure, says Jean Baptiste Aristide, the former Haitian president. And he is relieved that the United States-backed Organisation of American States is investigating his unlawful ousting.

Aristide fled Haiti on February 29 during a coup he insists "had the blessing of the UN".

"For me the investigation means we are standing for truth and we are still for the same truth."

Truth and lies are the two categories that cleave Aristide's world and he would like to set the record straight against "the huge international disinformation campaign" that paints him as a despotic scoundrel.

'Je suis ce que j'etais, pour être ce que je serai'
Aristide says the campaign is funded by economic and political forces who have paid $60-million (about R390-million) a year - last year it was $76-million - to slur his good name and that of the world's first country to be liberated from slavery.

Among the villains of this story are France, Haiti's old colonial master, and the US, which, Aristide says, stoke violence to prove that black people are incapable of self rule.

"Is it because we are black that they don't want the truth to emerge from us?" he asks.

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[Bluebear]

1. After all, Bush said "some" think "brown skins" can't be free

[dArKeR]

2. I honestly believe the old South is alive a well and everything they stand

for still exists and elements of the American Secret Government are still actively promoting the Southern White Agenda.

Plus I have a thousand 'friends' from the Chicago area who actively talked like this as we grew up and when I go back there to visit most of them still talk the same way.

[Tansy_Gold]

3. Vous,

et moi aussi.

[seemslikeadream]

4. I honestly believe this kind of hatred will never die

WITHOUT SANCTUARY



Lynchers often paraded their victim down the main street, through black neighborhoods, and in front of "colored schools" that were in session.

Jesse Washington, seventeen years old, was the chief suspect in the May 8, 1916, murder of Lucy Fryer of Robinson, Texas, on whose farm he worked as a laborer. After the lynching, Washington's corpse was placed in a burlap bag and dragged around City Hall Plaza, through the main streets of Waco, and seven miles to Robinson, where a large black population resided.

His charred corpse was hung for public display in front of a blacksmith shop. The sender of this card, Joe Meyers, an oiler at the Bellmead car department and a Waco resident, marked his photo with a cross (now an ink smudge to left of victim).


This card bears the advertising stamp, "katy electric studio temple texas. h. lippe prop." inscribed in brown ink: "This is the Barbecue we had last night my picture is to the left with a cross over it your son Joe."

Repeated references to eating are found in lynching-related correspondence, such as "coon cooking," "barbecue," and "main fare."
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