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<h1 class="reader-title">For Biden Administration, Black Lives
Don't Matter in Haiti! <br>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">February 12, 2021<br>
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<p>The people of Haiti have been demanding freedom from
the succession of U.S.-imposed dictators for decades.
One such dictator, Jovenel Moïse, refused to leave
office February 7, which marked the end of his term four
years after an illegal election. This move catapulted
yet another intense episode in the historic struggle of
the Haitian masses against colonial intervention. Tens
of thousands of Haitians went to the streets demanding
democracy and an end to dictatorship. And what was the
response from the U.S. puppet regime? Bullets,
paramilitary terror, curfews, house raids, beatings and
the imprisonment of opposition leaders.</p>
<p>With the election of U.S. President Joe Biden, folks
believed this so-called “champion” of fair elections and
the rule of law—who had expressed a commitment that
“Black Lives Matter”—would rally to the side of Haitians
and end U.S. support for the dictatorship. </p>
<p>But that did not happen. </p>
<p>When Moïse announced he would stay in office past
February 7, and continue to rule by decree, the Biden
administration signaled it supported that decision.
Moïse’s rule by decree was made possible because
elections were postponed in 2019, which allowed the
mandates of most of the representatives to the National
Assembly—Haiti’s parliament—to expire.</p>
<p>It did not matter that Moïse ruled by decree, that he
violated the rights of his people and that the majority
of the people wanted him gone. What mattered to the
Biden administration was the purpose Moïse served in
U.S. plans for the Caribbean and Latin American region.
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<p>In other words, the people must be sacrificed for the
larger interests of the U.S. imperial project. These
interests that could not be bothered with the trifle
concerns about democracy, legitimacy or the rights of
the people. Those rhetorical terms are only evoked as
expressions of the United States’ so-called “values”
when directed at an adversary like Russia, Venezuela,
China or any other country the United States is actively
attempting to destabilize. But those values cannot be
allowed to complicate U.S. interests in Haiti or even in
the occupied Black and Brown communities within the
United States.</p>
<p>We ask Joe Biden and his supporters, who claim Biden
cares about African/Black people: Why does it seem like
the lives of African/Black people in Haiti do not
matter? Is it that Black lives only matter when they are
supporting U.S. and European colonial white power? </p>
<p>In the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), we know the
answer to that rhetorical question. Both parties and the
U.S. state have demonstrated the lives of non-Europeans
mean extraordinarily little. And the values that the
United States and Western Europeans pretend to
uphold—like democracy and human rights—are dead letters
when it comes to the fundamental human rights of the
peoples of the global South. </p>
<p>The United States and the United Nations armed and
trained Haitian police. Moïse has the full support of
these armed paramilitary forces, who are committed to
upholding the rule of the Haitian ruling class that
serves international capital. That is why the Biden
administration supports Moïse. Therefore, Moïse has no
legitimacy.</p>
<p>Haiti emerged as a free society in the greatest
revolution in human history in 1804, when the people of
Haiti established the first Black Republic after
fighting and defeating first the Spanish and then the
French, at the time the greatest military power on the
planet. Since then, the West has tried to destroy Haiti.</p>
<p>Invasions, occupations, death squads, economic plunder,
attacks on their culture, political isolation and
U.S.-backed dictatorships have exacted a severe price on
the people of Haiti. Yet, they have never surrendered.
That spirit of resistance is on display today in the
streets of Haiti. </p>
<p>We, in the Black Alliance for Peace, will continue to
support those efforts by organizing actions throughout
the United States in solidarity with the Haitian people.</p>
<p>We are not confused. There is nothing exceptional about
the United States, except perhaps its hypocrisy.
Declarations made by white-supremacist politicians and
heads of imperialist corporations that “Black Lives
Matter” have rung hollow, opportunistic and completely
in contradiction to the lived experiences of
African/Black people in the United States from 1619 to
the present.</p>
<p>Stripped of the veneer of liberal-rights discourse, the
true core values of the U.S. settler-colonial project
are obvious: Glorification of violence, white supremacy,
patriarchy, social Darwinism, materialism and extreme
individualism. These core values facilitated the land
theft that allowed for the creation of the United
States, enslavement and the most rapacious forms of
capitalist accumulation on the planet. </p>
<p>The abandonment of the people of Haiti affirms once
again the United States is committed to white power.
Subversion, war and brutal sanctions are just some of
the instruments employed to maintain the structures of
white colonial-capitalist power. </p>
<p>So, our appeal is not to the conscience of Biden and
the neoliberal imperialist Democrats—they only have
objective interests. Instead, we call on the people of
the United States to demand an alteration both in U.S.
policies regarding Haiti and in its relationship with
Haiti as well as with all nations that currently find
themselves in the crosshairs of U.S. imperialist
reaction.</p>
<p>However, we understand our commitment to peace and
People(s)-Centered Human Rights, social justice,
democracy and self-determination cannot be realized
without an organized people who are struggling for
power. </p>
<p>The people of Haiti are fighting for power, for the
ability to determine their own destiny. Stand with them.
Stand with us. Fight for freedom and for a new reality
in Haiti and the world.</p>
<p>No Compromise, No Retreat!</p>
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