By: Guerton “Babi” Auguste
October 17, 2023
With so much political awakening going on in Africa, I thought we had gotten rid of all the house negroes running governments on the continent. I may have been misinformed or clearly too optimistic.
It appears we still have a long way to go, specifically when it comes to the incumbent president of Kenya.
Ruto has been dragged like a willing idiot to come play cops in Haiti on behalf of the CORE group. With millions and possibly billions of American dollars on the table as enticement, he is well motivated to please master Blinken under the guise of a humanitarian mission to help his genetic cousins in Haiti…let’s name the Ruto/Blinken’s move: black-skin diplomacy. What can possibly go wrong? It is merely black brothers helping black brothers in distress…the propaganda will be unmistakable while pretending genuine concern.
Does Ruto know anything about haitiano-dominican history or just plain Haitian history?
Does Ruto know how much racist Dominicans – the Rafael Trujillo descendants – hate dark-skinned Africans and others of African descent – especially those endowed with a god-given, generous amount of melanin like him? Ruto is an embarrassment!
Like a docile negro, he sits there (in his video with Abinader at the UN) with all smiles for his masters (Blinken and Dominican oligarchs) talking about “the need to open a Dominican mission in Kenya as the two countries are mature democracies.” Ruto needs to be taught or shown what a mature democracy looks like.
Kenya does NOT meet the standard of a mature democracy under any rational measurement.
Can someone tell Ruto too, that Kenyans would be treated worse than Haitians, if they were to migrate to the Dominican Republic like Haitians?
For one thing, Dominicans could not tell Kenyans and Haitians apart and for sure would at least be in the same boat.
At least some of us Haitians could pass for Dominicans and be spared. Not so for Kenyans.
Under racial or xenophobic harassment, Haitians could also flee across the border back home for succor. But where would Kenyans go in such a scenario to save themselves from racist, white-pretending Dominicans?
Well the Kenyans could come home to Haiti of course – to the land of Dessalines, the birthplace of the original Afro Civil Rights Movement. We would receive our Kenyan cousins with open arms as envisioned and ordained by our forefathers.
Ruto should know too, that Abinader and his gang of racist nationalists would want nothing to do with Ruto or Kenyans, if Kenya were a neighboring country, if you discount the exploitation Dominican oligarchs would visit upon them.
In other words, in the Dominican’s view, Kenya would be a larger Haiti and therefore seen as a larger “problem” for the Dominican Republic. Therefore, Ruto had no business negotiating anything with the leaders of the Dominican Republic until they have learned to show respect for all Africans wherever they may be on the earth.
This is one more reason why this Kenyan, so-called humanitarian mission must be challenged & stopped.
We do NOT need a military intervention designed by Dominicans and the U.S embassy to pitch their tents in Haiti to guarantee Ariel’s continued tenure and provide safe passage to corrupt politicians and business interests.
If Ruto truly wanted to help his Haitians brothers and sisters instead of pleasing the U.S, what he should have done for example would be to reach out to the leaders of South Africa, Namibia, Angola and Rwanda to persuade them to join forces with him to help out Haiti in an African-led, African-conceived and African-financed, independent mission.
THAT would be a mission worth celebrating and embracing – especially if it were conditioned on Ariel’s departure. Through such a mission, Africa would find the perfect diplomatic cover to plant the pan-african flag in Haiti and begin at once the reconnection of Haiti to the mothership – the African continent and the African Union.
To give America fit and for good measure, the African leaders could also invite the Cubans to join them in the mission AFTER they are established in Haiti to provide “medical” assistance to the poor and to serve as medics for the troops.
I am well aware that this last step would not be wise. But the mischief would be tempting.
Ariel must go!
He is NOT fit to lead our country. Forget about his illegitimacy for a minute, ignore his alleged involvement in Jovenel’s torture and butchery. Even so, the man is plain incompetent. Ariel cannot even get the trash picked up in Port-au-Prince. He is a bona fide slob – purely based on objective evidence. Sanitation does not appear to be among his concerns – a paradoxical deficiency for a physician.
A foreign army may be permitted to set foot in Haiti only on one condition: to support and undergird a truly legitimate, competent, technocratic and impartial, transitional government whose mission would be to:
1) end the out-of-control criminality and put the kidnappers operating with impunity out of business for good
2) reform and retrain the police to effectively “serve & protect”
3) reform the judiciary by eradicating corruption and empaneling competent and judges and civil servants
4) set up a constitutional convention to revise and obtain a mandate for a new constitution
5) reform and audit all government ministries and authorities to institutionalize transparency and integrity in governmental affairs
6) establish an independent/impartial electoral commission of 11 members – with 1 member representing each of our 10 regional departments, plus a tie-breaking chairperson selected at large
7) organize new municipal and national elections for all elected officers in an orderly manner
and finally,
8) unconditional resignation of the transitional government at the transfer of power to the elected government.
Was any of this discussed with Ruto prior to agreeing to the mission? I strongly doubt it. An intervention with a mandate to protect a process as described above would be worth embracing and supporting.
This is not what Ariel, Abinader and Blinken are proposing to give us.
Ariel was placed in power with the full complicity of the U.S embassy in Port-au-Prince to ensure the perennity of the criminal gang that had hired him. His sole objective is to complete the assigned task by delivering a fraudulent s-election of the next chosen leader of Haiti in order to avoid prison under a future legitimate government, exile (if his handlers care to spirit him out of the country) or an ugly death, if he loses the favor of his masters or the betrayed gang members catch up to him.
So we must say No to this prop-up mission for Ariel and Elbé!
Some may think it is too late to block the Kenyan mission. I do not share that view. It is still up to us. But stopping it would require an uprising à la Ouanaminthe & we may not be up to another challenge at this time. That’s unfortunate.
(Guerton “Babi” Auguste, An engineer and native of Haiti resides in Boston MA.)
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