Do not abandon our brothers
published: Tuesday | March 2, 2004
THE EDITOR, Sir:
WE SHOULD not abandon the brothers and sisters from Haiti. Why send them back into a death trap? It is full time we stand up for one another and not try to look good in the eyes of our colonial masters. A Jamaican by the name of Boukman initiated the Haitian revolution, the second successful revolution in the West, let us not lengthen the gap between each other.
What if it was the other way around and England and the U.S. were funding and provoking civil war to control more of Jamaica's resources, would we not look to Haiti for refuge; and how would we feel if they rejected us? It is time for us African people to become a part of one nation and once and for all fight for our independence.
