You have sown the wind, you will reap the storm…
This has to end
The night has to end
Unwillingly
Sole will rise…
Prohibiting an incapable First Sinister, lackey of imperialism, from returning to “his” country (deyò, deyò nèt!) is probably a first in world history. The Ayisyan people have never ceased to amaze…
Naturally, the princes who govern us (by Tweet, unbelievable but true!) took the opportunity to attack Barbecue, even accusing him of cannibalism! Everyone knows that The Negro Cannibal is a recurring insult in colonial propaganda… and that Barbecue gets his nickname from the fact that his mother sold grilled meat. But all means are good to smear a man who understood that only a revolution, a real one, would save Ayiti.
He has only one wrong: that of being right.
The violence of the oppressed is the direct consequence, or better the product, of that of the oppressors. The rage of the poor comes from the indecent and insolent wealth of the dollar bags. And if revolutions are always violent, it is because the powerful of this world always want to have everything, and leave the people with nothing but hunger and despair.
And that they always resort, in the final analysis, to arms, to defend their centuries-old murders, their thefts and rapes, their denials of justice, their transgressions and their oppressions, under the pretext that the oppressed, having finally identified the authors of their misery, resort to the only argument that these deaf people hear: the sinister and murderous whistle of bullets.
War is cruelty and you can’t refine it, said American General William Tecumseh Sherman, a man who knew what he was talking about, having eviscerated the slave South. And our founding father Jean-Jacques Dessalines, before him, had not affirmed anything else in his laconic Cut the top of the burning house… War is not fought easily, and civil wars are always the most ruthless, the most ferocious, the most cruel.
That the oppressed, when they rise up, commit crimes and abuses, comes from all the crimes, all the abuses that insensitive and inhumane oppressors have made them suffer for generations. The worst of which: hunger.
Try going a week without eating, and you’ll see what I mean.
André Charlier
