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New York Times should apologize to Haitians for untruths

Ezili Danto/HLLN Note:
(First posted on WindowsonHaiti)

Below we copy our Jan 30th initial response to the New York Times article, "Democracy Undone: Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward chaos" By WALT BOGDANICH and JENNY NORDBERG https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2006-01/msg00002.html .

While over 1,000 political prisoners waste in indefinite extra-judicial detention in Haiti, which system of corruption and lawlessness is being maintained by the UN over the objections of the Haitian people and masses, the US Embassy, now headed by Haiti Democracy Project's, Timothy M Carney is busy issuing statements about how said interim ambassador and US officials in general have "no say in the internal affairs of Haiti or any other sovereign country." Of course, the hypocrisy, forked tongue and unbelievable untruths of this statement escapes no one. For without US support, Latortue would not be in office in Haiti and neither would over 10,000 Haitians be dead, thousands in exile, countless drowned fleeing the persecution and over 1,000 Lavalas sympathizers and supporters be currently in prison and dying there.

The New York Times article is a start, it at least gives a launching point for more interest in the US corrupting role in Haiti amongst the general world population who customarily take Times coverage as gospel. However, it is also very misleading, even racists, in that it merely scapegoats a Haitian, (Stanley Lucas) working for the State Department, and not the Bush State Department itself or even IRI chairperson, as the primary culprit to undermining Haiti's democracy with Bush regime change. This Haitian-on-Haitian violence line is still used to keep the truth at bay and make non-blacks, like Dean Curran, heroes.

Not to take anything from former Ambassador Brian Dean Curran and his struggle against IRI and other US-funded agency maneuverings to undermine the Aristide administration and the Haitian peoples dream of participatory democracy. I mean, he did LOSE HIS JOB right? But on the scale of justice, on the scale of the right to life, liberty, who lost more? Who fought harder to stop and continues every nanosecond of each breath to fight to stop Bush regime change in Haiti, and its violent consequences on the fabric of the Haitian soul, psyche, body - present and future? Brian Curan works for NATO now, where are the people of Site Soley, Solino, Bel Air, et al, working? How are they living, as they pass through UN checkpoints and duck UN bullets, zinglindo bullets and the newly constructed Haitian (out of the old FRAPH and FAD'H) police, bullets?

When will the Times tell us, emphasize for the world, what OUR PEOPLE, what the Haitian masses, have lost because of IRI sort of aid programs to Haiti?

Given the cast of US Ambassadors and reps in Haiti, before and after Brian Curran, is there really a white US hero in this lawlessness, this US-manufactured Haitian travesty? Trust the mythmakers to find one, make one. But, in truth, that's their prerogative. Fact is, we at HLLN know some heroes for Haitian rights, dignity, recognition and respect in Haiti. And they are either dead, unable to be heard or in prison!!!!

Again, it's not that I am not appreciative of the current article, but it still manages to spin the story to Haitian vs. Haitian, and mutes the State Department obstructionist, criminal maneuverings.

We Haitians are worthy of the TRUTH.

The best that can be said for the article "Democracy Undone" and its companion documentary piece, is that it begins to engage the larger public and lays the groundwork for further analysis into US destabilizing role in Haiti. But where has the New York Times been???

Isn't their failures, lies and half-truths leading up to the coup d'etat and their total silence about the officially sponsored massacres of the poor as glaring with their Haiti coverage as the big Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction lie that was printed about Iraq? Or, is it that because we are Haitians and black, we should be GRATEFUL for any sort of coverage by gwo moun yo and just shut up????

People may just go ahead and call me strident, or undiplomatic. So be it. I, for one, believe, we, as a people, deserve and are OWED better treatment by the mainstream media with so MUCH influence.

Over 10,000 Haitians are DEAD! Countless in prison, (remember the over 100 prisoner who where shot dead on Feb. 19, 2005, while behind bars, by the Latortue guards, and now are buried in mass graves?). Where was the NY Times then?

Who escorted Guy Phillip into Port au Prince?

Our lives matter.

We Haitians are flesh and blood with just as much right to LIFE as any human being on this planet. Our lives are valuable, not expendable.

It's fine and dandy for the Times to point to Currant as a hero because he identified and fought the Washington Chimeres. But that was in 2003. After then, when he was REPLACED with Foley, how come the Times' (Back channels vs. Policy) analysis STOPS....and most glaring of all, fails to even mention, Foley's replacement, Timothy M Carney. Said Carney, the very (interim?!!!) US Ambassador to Haiti now, is none other than the coup d'etat's most "back channel" Washington heavyweight heading Boulos' Haiti Democracy Project!

Thus, if we use the Times' own theme, own analysis, it's impossible not to come to the conclusion that IRI (or USAID) found Foley more in line with "back channels" than "US policy."

My Haitian peoples are DYING, have lost their sovereignty, because of what the NY TIMES inadequately terms as "back channels." Why center on IRI and NEVER mention it’s funded by USAID, which is THE STATE DEPARTMENT!!!!

Is the State Dept a "back channel??"

Anyway, Haitians are not interested in crumbs or charity from the mainstream media or anyone else. We want JUSTICE. We want the New York Times and the corporate media to TELL THE TRUTH. We Haitians are not INCOMPETENT people incapable of governing ourselves. The Times article is more than we've had, yes.
Extraordinarily so. And, it got near, perhaps 75%-close to telling the truth, but then it stop and spun its tale to fortify white privilege, white myths, as usual. To underscore the great American narrative. Leaving the same bad taste in our Haitian mouths as always: that Haitians are mainly to blame for Haiti's current chaos, insecurity, kidnappings, economic failures. That Guy Phillipe and Stanley Lucas just happen to have the power, that is - the political, media, monetary, diplomatic, intelligence, military, logistical and governmental powers, to take down 9 million Haitians all by theirselves!!! The Time spun wide, but who will know its spining its tale in a way to give Lucas a power he could not have amass without high State Department, Pentagon and Republican and even bi-partisan go-ahead. I mean, the US export democracy, no? Everyone knows that is a GIVEN! The subcontracted Haitians (Category Zero, the Black opportunists) are to blame, while Category One, or, the imperialist, (Bush, the State Department, the failed US Ambassador, IRI, IFES, NED, USAID) have nothing or very little to do with Haiti being a "failed state!"

Yet, if one simply uses the TIMES' own framework here, it's own assertions, it lead to this one TINY but most important-to-Haitians and Haitian-Americans FACT and ADMISSION - when Foley got to Haiti, IRI maneuverings to bring coup d'etat to Haiti had transmuted, become United States official POLICY!!!!

If HLLN doesn't make that unwritten TIMES implication OBVIOUS, who will?

Haitians continue to be massacred, incarcerated, afforded no civil or human rights, right now. We want the Times to treat us like human beings, and know there are consequences to what they choose to write about us - Haitian life, liberty and death consequences!

The corporate media must be made accountable. I claim better treatment for us as a people, a nation, and, simply as sentient beings. That's why HLLN exists.

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Below is the e-mail HLLN sent to its Network and listserve on Jan. 30, 2006, responding to the "Democracy Undone" article:

Demand New York Times apology to Haitians for disseminating untruth coining coup d'etat as a "popular uprising" | With NY Times' "Democracy Undone" renew demands for Congressional investigation into US role in Haiti's current lawlessness

Readers Comments on "NYT should apologize to Haitians for untruths" - Windowsonhaiti

Jafrikayiti (Jan 31, 2006): As usual Ezili, you've read through the crap. Now that the stink they made in Haiti is hard to cover-up, the White supremacist klan and its Uncle Tom crew are busy looking for scapegoats and fake heroes.

This story by the Miami Herald which did not reference Blumenthal's work is only the tip of the iceberg. Here in Canada, we started to witness a sudden willingness of the english language media to interview people like myself and others who were before the coup pointing to the works of IRI to destabilize and overthrow the democratic system in Haiti.

At the World Social Forum the other day, I took the opportunity to confer the to the participants that Haiti's problem is not a lack of "aid" - or like the NGO "experts" like to argue, that the 0.7% promised by the "first world" is not being disbursed or other non-sense of the sort. It is time that we stop this hypocrisy.

The solution to Haiti's problem is REPARATIONS. The damage caused to this nation MUST BE REPARED. Whether it is the 500 old damage or the damage caused by the latest multinational coup and kidnapping organized by the U.S., France and Canada on behalf of and with the white supremacist klan of Haiti represented by Charles Baker, Andre Apaid and Reginald Boulos who are demented enough to dream of recreating Rhodesia in the middle of 2004.

I am glad to inform you that among the media that were there, one sister from the U.S. asked me about the role that black opportunists played in this nightmare going on in Haiti and we had an opportunity to discuss your vailliant efforts within the HLLN to expose the likes of Ron Daniels and his connections with the coup plotters while he was at the same time pretending to be working for Haitian sovereignty and democracy. As I indicated in the interviewI gave her, it is with sadness that I had come to the conclusion that those among us who sell out, like Daniels, must be exposed with the rigour you and the HLLN have always shown. Because, truly, every time we fail to expose these "brothers", the klan knows it can and will use them to further its agenda.

So, yes, while the mainstream media is trying to present old information about the obvious and well documented involvement of foreign criminals in the 2004 coup, let us help them crack the door wide open so most of the truth might fly out.

THEY MUST REPAIR THE DAMAGE DONE TO HAITI !
Jafrikayiti

"Haiti, like Africa, has plenty of self-appointed "friends", but what she demands and deserves is JUSTICE !"
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Makendal (Feb 02, 2006): Thank you both for shedding the light of truths to the world. It is imperative that all views be known and that the masses formulate their own decisions with the proper tools at their mental disposal.

I read both postings with earnest and although Haiti may be at it's darkest hour, she has been there before and emerged. Nou tout ap travay...and all roads will lead to Haiti and democracy.

Makendal
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