The US Colonized The Caribbean [EP 94]

What do I want to do, Guys? Do I want to make it blacker news or critical thinking exercise? It's really it's about which intro I want to play. So you know which I'm going to play, right, Actually, both of them are so good.

You know what.

It's a blacker news critical thinking exercise, That's what it is.

And then.

Yes, it's both.

So we are watching the United States make a grand effort at starting a war with Venezuela to steal their resources.

We know this, We're watching it. This is the facts.

They are getting support, however, from a number of places, including Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago is an island that is the last island of the Caribbean. It is right done here and it is very close to Venezuela. They share waters. There has been some accusations that Venezuela has tried to steal oil from Trinidad, and this has been used as legitimizing of why Trinidad would be in

That is not some like weird assertion that I'm making.

It is a basic, bottom line fact. And unfortunately, in that colonizing they will of course have folks who are going along with their ride. And I want to break down for you guys the myriad ways that has happened. But first let's show the President, sorry, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and her latest commentary that she voiced in response to island opposition of trade and Tobago being used as a military outpost in aggressions against Venezuela.

You worry about radar and you worry about Venezuela.

Don't worry.

And I'll tell you something. You know, I think it's the height of hypocrisy and unkindness that your people in our country who want to fight the Americans. Tonight, I say it again, I stand in bilateral relationships with the.

United States of America.

They are amongst our oldest trading partners. One there are largest trading partner in terms of millions of dollars trade between US with Venezuela. We have point zero zero zero treat with the United States. Minnesota Trada. You Heal Kennedy.

You may know.

Billions of dollars in trade.

Let's really take a look.

When she says that the United States are friends, Let's take a look at how the United States has colonized the Caribbean. I said recently that the United States is basically I'm sorry, I said recently that the Caribbean is the Africa of the Western Hemisphere in that it has

Now, someone asked, is she scared of the US?

No, and I think that it's very I want you guys to really stop trying to apply your version of humanism to these individuals in power, because it's not practical. They haven't demonstrated anything to give us reason to give them that type of benefit of the doubt. So let's start and I will come back to this woman. I

It puts them in fear.

Next the nineteen eighty three Grenada invasion. In nineteen eighty one, you had Maurice Bishop, who was a young man in Grenada and he said, you know, I'm actually going to do a coup and overthrow Gary and I'm going to bring socialism into Grenada. So he actually leads a revolution in Grenada called the New Duwel Movement and the goal is to bring socialism and possibly communism to Grenada. In doing so, he becomes really tight with Fidel Castro in Cuba.

Now, even though the.

Even though the what's it called the Cold War really was at its height in the sixties, we know that it also got it didn't get fully disseminated or fully dissolved until the eighties. And the truth of the matter is that Fidel Castro presented as an example of a

And also of course to other parts of the region.

We have to acknowledge this because that that has always been the effort suppress, suppress, suppress. Here's Maurice Bishop talking about why the FBI was so concerned about Grenada, and he's doing this in the United States at a talk.

The reason for all of this hostility is because some perceive that what is happening in Grenada can lead up a new socioeconomic and political part of development. They give all kinds of reasons and excuses, some of them.

Credible, some utter rubbish. There's an interesting one that we saw very recently in a secret report of the State Department. I want to tell you about that one so you

People of of the United States.

I can see from an applause system.

And brothers that you agree with the report.

But I want to tell you what that same report also said and said that also made us very dangerous, and that is that.

The people of Grenada and the leadership of Grenada are predominantly black.

They said that ninety five percent.

Of our population is black, and they had a correct statistic.

So we must also acknowledge again that blackness has been at a center position in the colonializing, in the colonizing of this region and supprise. When people try and make it like race doesn't matter, it's about economy, you're ignoring the fact that race has been an integral tool to upholding economy and to suppressing Okay, that's not by accident. That's also because the fact is that when people were stolen and trafficked across these waters and brought to these nations,

Sorry, well they did start their own companies, their own tribes, et cetera.

So we cannot discount that they know that that racial unity is absolutely an aspect that they need to continue to suppress, and so in doing so, they came into Grenada. In nineteen eighty three, they actually got in between Maurice Bishop and his partner, Bernard Cord. Bernard Cord flipped. Next thing you know, Maurice Bishop was killed in front of a firing squad.

We don't even know where his body is to this day.

They also put his pregnant girlfriend in front of a fireing squad. And we also know that in nineteen eighty three they invaded using a soft power technique. Grenada does not have a military base. However, in Fidel Castro building our airport, they tried to say that that was a military base being built by Cuba. Grenada does not have a US military base, but it does have a medical school, and the medical school in Grenada is very strongly founded

Are not with it. They do not like any of this nonsense.

So those folks all aligned with each other and got together, and it created a huge economic shift in the region. The Caribbean was no longer able to sustain as a part of trade. Grenada had been the number two trader for spices, but after India, that's why we.

Have a literal nutmeg.

On our flag, and after NAFTA that was a rap so that limited the ability to trade from agriculture. It limited the ability for them to control their prices, and it made it so that they now controlled what the prices were for these items across the world. When we talk about the Banana Republic, that is them deciding that bananas should only cost a certain amount. And if these countries in Central America were going to change the prices, then they were going to change the actual power structure

However, the Cara com gets disrupted when you have.

Individuals like Kamala and Trinidad and other nations having to do trade agreements with the US or feeling like they should do trade agreements with the US that end up shutting out other nations in the Caribbean instead of actually working within the Caribbean to strengthen their unity and operate with unity to the US. Let's talk about the destabilizing

Let me just take a.

Moment when people say statements like this Caribbean is not going to achieve solidarity, correct leadership and proximity to the US are immutable obstacles. I have a real I have a real frustration with people like you because you haven't lived forever, and you're not going to live forever. You're speaking in forevers that you have no real ability to stand on, and you are infusing your own defeatism while haralding the United States as some insurmountable enemy, which is

So Rolando, please remove them, remove people.

In here who do not believe that we can make any change, because I don't want that energy in this space. I am not saying the change will happen today. I'm not saying it can happen tomorrow. But I will never for a second give the United States and colonialism the power of believing that it is impervious to harm.

Never again.

Even having an inkling of that is a cancer that spreads.

Get that op mindset out of here.

The destabilizing of Haiti is largely put and grounded in the fact that, of course it t was the first to achieve independence from its colonizer. Unfortunately, it has never been able to achieve true independence because they have consistently.

Kept it destabilized.

They have consistently invaded its shores, both in physical form and in other deleterious methods. In for instance, Israel has provided Haiti with Haitian militias and Haitian gangs with actual weapons to keep them destabilized.

We have the CIA, which has consistently.

Gone in and taken out whoever they feel like it is trying to bring Haiti to sovereignty. We had former our economics advisor Jeffrey Sachs on the show who said straight up that Moissee who is pictured here, told him they're coming to get me.

And he was like, no, the CIA is not coming to get you, and then he got murked.

And now you see Jeffrey all over the world trying to tell people these folks is a problem.

Don't trust them, don't trust them.

France has been stealing from Haiti since Haiti got its independence. We also have to acknowledge the ways in which there have been direct infringement upon their food sovereignty. And I want to keep coming back to food sovereignty. A people who cannot feed themselves are slaves. It may not be to the extent to which we were an enslaved people working in the cane fields, but we are are still in the same way, run by a higher hand that determines whether or not we can care for ourselves and

Business of rice.

So now you had Haitians who, instead of eating their own rice, were importing rice from Arkansas and from Thailand. You'll see here that these bags say product of Thailand. But you'll notice that the imagery on them and the writing on them makes it seem as though they are actually from Haiti. That is not by accident. Bill Clinton eventually came and actually apologized.

Now I will not front.

I have not been able to get deep in the weeds for what the real reason why he apologized is.

But here he is saying, my bad Haiti.

Rich countries that produced a lot of foods should sell it to poor countries and relieve them of the burden of producing their own foods. So thank goodness, they can lead directly into the industrial era. It has not worked.

It's maybe been.

Good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but.

It has not worked. It was a mistake.

It was a mistake that I was a Party two.

I am not wanting to figure at anybody.

I did that. I had to live every day with the consequences of the lost capacity.

The unmitigated caucacity of stating that you completely disrupting and destabilizing an entire country's ability to feed itself is about you having to live with the repercussions of that.

They never ceased to amaze me.

I see to produce a rice crop and Haiti to feed those people because of what I did, nobody else.

Now shout out to folks like doctor Bertrude Albert, who was pictured now, who was pictured in the video. There is efforts to restore the ability for Haitians to actually grow their own rice. She has been working for years to build a canal that allows for water to be redistributed back out to the field to restore the Haitian rice fields, which will also give them the opportunity.

To create their own sovereignty.

Now, she was on Views from She was on my podcast Small Doses rest and p Small Doses podcast. She was Osamaldos's pod Small Doses podcast two years ago.

Let's listen big fear of Haiti.

Even today, someone might say, like, well, slavery's abolished, why would the United States fear Haiti? A lot of people don't know. In two thousand and four, Haitian president Alisted, the first democratically elected president, i Lei Steed. He was overthrown and the two players that orchestrated this Coupdetta was the United States in France. But why did they do that? It's because Ili Steed, he stood before the UN he stood before the world and said Haiti had to pay

So that's doctor Bertrude Albert, and she's brilliant and has been so said fast at helping to bring Haiti back into.

The ability to support itself.

Even in the midst of all the news that we hear about destabilizing of Haiti, we have to understand that there are folks who are on the ground doing the work. And I am a large believer and I will stand on this that Haiti is the key to the Western hemisphere being freed, the same way that Philistine is the key to the East being freed.

One thousand percent.

Now, part of the destabilizing of Haiti was also carried out because of the ability for the La de Pelago Dominicana, which was next door to it, to keep watch for the United States while continuously repressing Haitians. Rafael tru Huido was put in place in nineteen thirty and.

He was wait, I'm messing up. Rafael Trujido was put.

In place, and he was actually in power till nineteen sixty one, I think when he was assassinated. Now, Truhido was a very light skinned man who came up through the ranks of the military.

When the US was occupying.

There were Dominican Republic and he came up through the ranks very quickly and was put into power. He led in October nineteen thirty seven, from late sept Sorry, from September through October nineteen thirty seven, he led one of the most heinous genocides ever, with fifteen thousand Haitian men and children systemically systematically murdered on the orders of his on his own orders. Now, this happened along the borders of.

The Haiti, the Haiti of Haiti and the demicant Dominican Republic.

Now, this man wanted to be white so bad that he would powder his face.

And he was deeply committed to carrying out.

The suppression and repression of black folks in Haiti and in the region. Now, the women that you see there are damn it their names.

Hold on. The women you see there are.

Sisters who the medabout sisters who are Their story is put in historical fiction in the time of the butterflies.

But he basically was, why.

Can't I talk all of a sudden the meana about sisters were three women who were a part of the resistance. Okay, they were a part of the resistance against Tuhigo, and they were one. They were three of many who were consistently fighting Ruhidyo. Now Selene talks about the cult of personality. He was so about himself that yes, he named the capital Si Ruido, like he changed it from Sanko Domingo to Trujillo City.

And this was.

Going on for such a long time because the United States knew that as long as he was there, and he was capitulating to their wants and needs, and he was being friendly to what they were trying to do.

And in World War two.

He also you know, declared war against the all you know, with the Allies, et cetera, that they could have him in their back pocket. Because I have to remind you that the Caribbean is in the Western Hemisphere. The Caribbean is in the back pocket of the United States, and so many people do not think about this because they just think of it as a tourist destination. It is filled with resources filled. This brings us to Cuba, It's

They are able to appeal to the interests.

Of society's greedy and as long as they can psychologically control the greed addicted members of those societies, then they can control the societies at large.

Socialism actively undermines the.

Ability to actually gain capitalistically because the system itself does not.

Strengthen does gain strength from that mindset.

The stinstum itself is strengthened by actual cooperative working. So there is no reason for in a socialist environment that is truly socialist. For there's no ability in the same way for someone like the United States to be able to hold power. So there has been sanctions placed on Cuba for decades now that are continuing to diminish the ability for Cubans to live, to live freely, and for actual socialism to exist and thrive. So when people say, well,

Guantanamo Bay is Cuba.

The reason why the United States still owns Guantanamo Bay goes all the way back to the Spanish American War. US forces joined up and they took Guantanamo from Spain during this war, and then after the war, when they occupied Cuba, they wrote a new constitution and inserted an amendment in that constitution that forced Cuba to sell or lease land to the US in order to maintain their independence.

Now, I want to remind you.

That folks always talk about how we can't change our constitution, et cetera.

The United States rewrites constitutions like.

Folks having like folks is rewriting their relationships with puff Daddy. I don't want to watch the puff Daddy documentary because I know it's going to be a bunch of liars. By the way, it's just going to literally be a bunch of people sitting in there pretending like they weren't there the entire time that all this was going on, and turning the other cheek.

I don't got time for that.

The United States has rewritten Japan's constitution, They've rewritten Cuba's constitution. They be rewriting constitutions like the Bible has been rewritten in whatever way it serves them. The Platt Amendment then got reupt in nineteen thirty four when there was a nineteen thirty four treaty that again said that the US has.

To be able to lease.

This land from Cuba or else they will not be able to exist sovereign. So basically like, if you don't give us this, LANMD, We're going to invade you. This brings us to our beginning. Now, this is the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Her name is Kamala Posadsiness BISSESSR.

And she is a member of the United National Congress.

Now, there are two main parties in Trinidad, the United National Congress which is mostly Indian, and the People's National Movement which is mostly Afro Caribbean aka Black. I just want to replay what she said in the beginning to refresh your memory about where I'm about to go with this.

You worry about.

Raid On, you worry about Venezuela, don't worry, and I'll tell you something.

You know.

I think it's the height of hypocris unkindness that their people in all country will want to fight the American Sonight, I say it again I stunned in bilateral relationships with the United States of America. They are amongst our oldest trading partners.

One Kamala Persad missinessr became the first woman Prime Minister of Trinidad in twenty ten. She got to this position with the help of Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica is a now quote unquote defunct firm that uses use her data that it got from social media sites to help advance the interests of various companies and individuals. Among its founders and board members with Steve Bannon. As you know, Steve Bannon is a long time confidante and member of Donald

I go about this in.

Extensiveness in my smarty rants on Patreon that I did about Nicki Minaj and how she is connected to Republicans. However, the bite size, travel sized version I'll give you right here.

Is that.

This woman used duplicitus means via Cambridge Analytica to target the voting block of Trinidad and sway folks into apathy. Thus her voting block, the Indian folks, would show up in greater numbers and get her the position. It is no coincidence that Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer are part of the company that was employed to do this. She is now the Prime Minister of Trinidad. She is in

They are not the friends of the Caribbean.

And any members of Caribbean governments who are capitulating, who are supporting and who are allied with the United States are not in allyship with the people of the Caribbean.

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