masukuma wrote:
that is all true. I have read it... by the way... if there was a country that black people kicked out 'mbeberu' it was Haiti. These are all true. but blame is a pie and it has to be shared... in there is a slice for Haitians. the Docs were Haitians... We can shift blame all we want but there is a slice for us in there.
Papa Doc and Baby Doc were puppets of the Americans.
Which means they were installed to promote the interests of American government NOT Haitian people and not even American people. If they veered from that mandate, America would have simply had them assassinated, staged a coup and installed a new puppet. This is what America did in Latin America and the Carribbean for much of the 1960s, 70s and 80s. So you can hardly blame the Haitian people for this.
Even in Kenya, if for some reason, Kenya was of strategic interest to the British, they would have come to Kenya, had Kenyatta overthrown and installed their own puppet. And there is nothing we as Kenyans would have been able to do about it. Just like there is nothing Congolese could do when the CIA killed Lumumba, installed Mobutu and propped him up for 30 years. They tried to fight him but with all the weapons and support he was getting from the west, it was impossible to beat him. That is until the cold war ended and the Americans had no more use for Mobutu.