This brief but very informative video report was sent to me by one of my students in my Caribbean Thought Class at the Jamaica Theological Seminary. It is an Absolutely great share. This video report speaks to the issues we have been lifting up in class about Caribbean independence and the dominance of global forces such as the US—UK et al that continue to dictate local national issues. You can view the video below:
Black people are among the poorest and most impoverished peoples of the world today. Why is that so? And there is no example of any country today that’s govern by black, brown or (Latin) African people where there is no instability or underdevelopment.
In the book Neoliberalism Globalization Income Inequality Poverty and Resistance, we look at international bureaucracy as a strategy that continues to benefit some groups and countries at the expense of others and the countervailing forces within systems that mitigate and dilute any “ineffective” strategy of Resistance for change.
Black people today continue to be ruled through military or economic force even after they have achieved independence! This is in addition to the fact that many New World Black and Brown people are not inherently free but live as people whose freedoms are granted as a privilege by their former white masters who continue to benefit from Their white privilege of inherent and taken freedoms.
Indeed, Fanon is right when he said in his book “Wretched Of The Earth” “…today the colonized man is a political creature in the most global sense.”
For when they thought that they had achieved self-determination through nationalism or independence, they are met with the strategy of denationalization though neoliberal globalization.
Neoliberalism is about profit, greed and power. In a world of competition where some are vying for power, the survival of the fittest proves a salacious item to dominate the mind so that the weak can continue to accept their positions in life. The black man lost human “race” and as such he must live as that—dominated.
Haiti is a perfect example of that today. Jamaica, the Caribbean, and it’s diaspora; Africa and Black, Brown and Latin African communities everywhere embodies this reality in clear view (draconian policies and laws, massive aid and abject poverty and inequality and uncontrollable crimes and violence and limited resources and poor educational outcomes.)
Moreover, if ever and whenever it seemed as if the black race is about to win or gain some success, or privilege that may rival the status quo, there’s this bitter and most inhuman backlash by the hegemonic base, the status quo, the Washington Consensus effected through their international bodies that proclaim humanitarianism, consensus and fairness, but in effect advances a particular ideology through strategy that protects the few over the many. You may want to examine the true story of how “Black Wall Street” in America came and left us. And you may want to explore how the US transferred Haitian gold from Haiti to America in the 1950s, raping the native peoples and land of their wealth and using military force mixed with aid and a puppet government to keep this Black Country mediocre and dependent. Indeed there has been a stealthy and deadly penetration of America in the in the Caribbean economically, politically and culturally that is strategic and representative of the policy towards black peoples and nations in the world that continues to drive their plight and positions.
Comparatively, Jamaica’s experience with the neoliberals of the Washington consensus was different from Haiti: Jamaica was a commonwealth country with the queen as its head, and with a neoliberal machinery that was left intact by the British. So, there was no need for the kind of dictatorship exhibited by the Americans in Haiti in the other Caribbean Black and Latin countries as they had ceremonially accepted their stations and did not take their freedoms and their country. These other Caribbean nations only arranged their freedoms and independence and did not have the pride of victory that they could laud over their rivals. But for Haiti which was rich in gold and considered once the pearl of the French islands and the world that could rival the US, and the fact that Haiti was freed through black revolution was a problem that could ignite and empower blacks and brown people and topple whites privilege and status.
The narrative is always that Blacks cannot control or run anything. Everything they touch is mediocre. The Neoliberal elites dominance in world thought, leadership and finance continues to push policy that disfavors local governments of black and brown nations that sustains the historical narrative and strategy of their racist hegemonic ancestors who have created a false society based on the competition of race that supports their power dynamic and status.
This narrative is a strategy that informs international policy towards black and brown and Latin counties and peoples and the political and financial actions, responses and aid. Aid does not consider human capital development or it would also return the wealth in terms of gold and the interest on that gold back to the peoples where they continue to dominate or have left destitute.
You know, it is no wonder that South Africa (formerly controlled by white Europeans where there was apartheid) was once considered a first world country: but since Nelson Mandela and blacks took back political power, it’s now steep in debt, and is no longer considered first world on par with other major post industrial country like back in its hey day when They had an apartheid government.
In fact, some white Americans advance this view: Over the last four years, or since 2016 when Trump rose to Political prominence and power within the Conservative Party, he has promoted this slogan “let’s make America Great Again!” It was a slogan that promoted a return to white supremacy. It was a statement that eschewed black leadership and power for a white populism where whites ruled and were privileged for certain benefits and gains. It appealed to white sensitivities and fears of the other and white exclusion and loss. It highlighted the disdain within which many Americans viewed a black President in their White House. Black wealth and those in the minority seem to be gaining some scraps and as such there has been severe backlash by the police, extremists and political operatives to stymie, stifle and demotivate this newly energized growing minority base.
I had always blamed the #Haitian people for their plight, running with the strategic narrative by having a #neoliberal #education that the Haitian aggressive and resistance mentality destroyed their once beautiful and promising country; until the truth finally comes out that after their independence, their wealth was stolen by the neoliberals only to now give them aid as their people live in abject poverty under international military occupation posing as humanitarians working for the neoliberal regime to determine the status of the people who are always having to fight back for their freedoms. You know even after their revolution, they are still having to fight but without any success. It begs the question: did they ever take their independence? We’re they ever free? What use was their revolution without any #financial #restoration and #repatriation.
This Post was submitted by Rev. Renaldo C. McKenzie, as part of a Lecture and part of an ongoing Study to be submitted as part of his Dissertation development at Georgetown University. Renaldo also discuss some of these issues in his book Neoliberalism Globalization Income Inequality Poverty and Resistance.
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