Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire
  • omnibus

No to Blackface imperialism. Yes to Haitian Sovereignty
Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team
30 Aug 2023
No to Blackface imperialism. Yes to Haitian Sovereignty
(Image courtesy PBS Documentary - Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture & The Haitian Revolution)

The plan for the next occupation of Haiti involves Caribbean nations Jamaica and the Bahamas. Even far away Kenya is allowing itself to be used to give cover to a racist attack.

Originally published in Black Alliance for Peace.

OPPOSE FOREIGN INTERVENTION IN HAITI

No to Blackface imperialism. Yes to Haitian Sovereignty.

On August 1, 2023, the United States stated it would “put forward a U.N. Security Council resolution that will authorize Kenya to lead a multinational police force to help combat gangs in Haiti.” While Kenya has offered to deploy a contingent of 1,000 police officers to help train and assist Haitian police, ostensibly to “restore order” in the Caribbean republic,” their proposal is nothing more than military occupation by another name. An occupation of Haiti by an African country is not Pan-Africanism, but Western imperialism in Black face. By agreeing to send troops into Haiti, the Kenyan government is assisting in undermining the sovereignty and self-determination of Haitian people, while serving the neocolonial interests of the United States, the Core Group, and the United Nations.

For the last two years, these imperialist forces have been pushing for further armed intervention into Haiti to forcefully uphold the illegitimate “government” they have installed to maintain their control. The occupying entities of the US, United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), and the Core Group have been desperately searching for any multilateral institution to lead this intervention, be it the UN Security Council, Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), and others. The goal is the continued denial of Haitian sovereignty.  

Haiti’s occupiers, the Core Group and BINUH, along with their puppet government, are incapable of ensuring healthcare, food, security, and access to basic needs for the people. We are told that the interest of the U.S. is humanitarian, that it wants to protect the Haitian people from “gang violence.” But we know that Haiti’s imperial occupiers have created the crisis and have fueled the violence against Haitian people.

The Black Alliance for Peace stands in solidarity with the Haitian’s people’s constant call for disbanding the Core Group, for an arms embargo against the Haitian and U.S. elite who import guns into the country, for the end of support for Haiti’s installed puppet government, and for the reinstatement of the fuel subsidies removed by order of the IMF.  It is curious that the Core Group and US/UN are calling for military intervention while not making calls to build either hospitals or schools, or to build the infrastructure for power and clean water. Yet, BINUH and the Core Group cooperate with the oligarchs who establish monopolistic domination through intimidation and force.

The ongoing occupation of Haiti and calls for increased foreign military presence in Haiti have been justified as the only solution to political or economic crises. Yet, the true ongoing crisis in Haiti is a crisis of imperialism. The country's economic and social situation has reached a critical stage, allowing for  increased political instability.

BAP demands that Kenya rescind their proposal to send 1,000 police to Haiti, and calls on the Kenyan people to join the Haitian masses and radical voices worldwide in condemning the continued occupation and governance of Haiti by the Core Group and the UN.

BAP calls on individuals and organizations in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean and Central and Latin America, especially those member states of CELAC and CARICOM, to demand that their elected representatives SAY NO to any resolution at present or in the future to militarily intervene in Haiti.

BAP calls on individuals and organizations on the continent of Africa, particularly Pan-African organizations, to denounce African governments participation in present or future armed intervention into Haiti, and demand leaders of their countries seek true Pan-African alliances with the people and grassroots organizations of Haiti, in support of their sovereignty and self-determination – in line with demands of 60+ Haitian civic and social organizations in their letter to the African Union, dated 6 August 2023  (English | Francés).

BAP calls for popular movements in the Americas in support of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) 2014 call to make the Americas region a Zone of Peace.

 

SIGN HERE

Call, tweet, and email these demands to: 

 

Kenya: Ambassador William Ruto 

(202) 387-6101

Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Twitter: @KenyaembassyDC or@ForeignOfficeKE or @StateHouseKenya

 

Jamaica: Ambassador Audrey Patrice Marks

(202) 452-0660

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @USEmbassyJA

 

The Bahamas: Ambassador Wendall K. Jones

(202) 319-2660

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @bahamasembassy

 

CARICOM: CARICOM Secretariat

Turkeyen Georgetown, Guyana

Email [email protected] or [email protected] 

 +1(592) 222-0001

Twitter: @CARICOMorg

 

UN: UN Secretary-General António Guterres 

(212) 963-7160

Twitter: @antonioguterres

 

No to occupation. No to foreign intervention. No to Blackface imperialism. 

Yes to sovereignty. Yes to a true Pan-African alliance between the people of Haiti and Kenya.  

#HandsOffHaiti

Haiti
Haiti Occupation
Jamaica
the Bahamas
Kenya
Black face imperialism

Do you need and appreciate Black Agenda Report articles. Please click on the DONATE icon, and help us out, if you can.


Related Stories

Joel Mukisa
The problem is systemic: understanding the #OccupyParliament movement in Kenya
09 October 2024
Reflecting on the mass protests that recently shook Kenyan society from top to bottom, Joel Mukisa argues that we must go much further than a c
Ferdinand Ibebuchi
From East to West Africa: The People Are Uprising against Colonial Oppression and Corruption
07 August 2024
Waves of uprisings are spreading across the African continent and the masses are demanding freedom from imperialist powers and the comprador le
Black Alliance For Peace
Responsibility for the Kenya Crisis Lies At the Feet of US Neo-Colonialism
10 July 2024
The current uprising in Kenya is a result of the imperialist economic policy enabled and maintained by its comprador leader, William Ruto.
Communist Party of Kenya
Unmasking Ruto’s Betrayal and Mobilizing for Kenya’s Sovereignty and Justice
19 June 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto, despite his posturing as a strong leader for the people, has betrayed the masses time and time again.
AsheNews
An Open Letter to William Ruto, By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
05 June 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto is serving the role of a comprador facilitating the continued colonization of Kenya and betraying the revolutiona
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Kenya’s President Ruto Defies His Own Country’s Constitution and High Court to Invade Haiti
29 May 2024
I spoke to William Sakawa, a producer and reporter with the Nairobi-based media o
Willy Mutunga
MUTUNGA: Impending departure of Kenyan police forces to Haiti
22 May 2024
Our future survival as a nation depends on what foreign policy decisions are made by our government.
Audra Diptée
Operation Legacy: How Britain covered up its colonial crimes
24 April 2024
The British sought to cover up their atrocities in Africa and the Caribbean by manipulating information t
African Stream host
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
African Stream
13 March 2024
African Stream is an anti-war, anti
Kenyan High Court
Booker Omole
CPK Applauds High Court Ruling Against Kenyan Police Deployment in Haiti
31 January 2024
The International Department of the Central Organizing Committee of the Communist Party of Kenya issued a statement of support in response to t

More Stories


  • Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team
    The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for Resistance Against the Accelerating Imperialist War on Black/African Peoples in Our Americas
    14 May 2025
    Accelerating crises of imperialism in Haiti, Ecuador, and beyond highlight the urgent need for regional Pan-Africanist, anti-imperialist unity and strategy.
  • Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
    Saturday Mornings
    14 May 2025
    "Saturday Mornings" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
  • Moussa Ibrahim
    How Western Churches Hijacked African Christianity—and How It's Fighting Back
    14 May 2025
    The future of the Christian church on the continent depends on the ability to develop an authentic African Christianity, moving away from its westernized forms.
  • Terri Frick
    Black People, Palestine, and the Maintenance of Empire
    14 May 2025
    Black support for Palestine underscores the fight against empire, revealing how Israel’s violence in Gaza serves U.S. hegemony and white supremacy, with Palestinian freedom as a catalyst for global…
  • Hanna Eid
    Whole Process People's Democracy: The Path Forward
    14 May 2025
    Growing socialist and people's democratic projects, as in China and Bolivia, must be seen as examples of how revolutionary forces in the United States can build a system of governance. 
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us