U.S. Grant and Haiti is not about current federal aid but about President U.S. Grant’s consideration of annexation of the island of Hispaniola, part being current Haiti and part being the Dominican Republic. In D.C., I was friends with a woman from a prominent Haitian family who told us about the troubled history of her home.
During a trip to D.R., the thought of going on an ATV tour in Haiti was to frightening for me; I don’t do motorcycles or unrest.
Our prayers are with the people of Haiti and we should consider that the earthquake would have occurred if President Grant took the island as a place for former slaves. I have always liked the idea of giving former slaves a transition place away from the recent oppressors—-that’s where I would have wanted to be and I would have preferred a properly-funded all-Black school during my childhood. In Worth County, Georgia, Blacks attended J.W. Holley School and my mother taught on one end while my father taught on the other. Who wanted to go to school with people with superiority complexes? The only thing we have like that in my community is the fraternity system, the color mess, church competitions….I better leave this alone.
While America was busying annexing, the strip of land from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas would have been a nice area for a Black state or a new Israel. My trip to Israel this week did not workout logistically but I pray that the region will calm for all parties. We know from Sunday School that Abraham is the father of three major religions so three major claims go to that sensitive region. It is silly of me to suggest that people abandon their ancestral home for safety—most would sooner die. That would be like me leaving my ancestral home South Georgia. A place my family supported with slave then sharecropper labor so “I am telling you I am not going.”
http://www.hispaniola.com/dominican_republic/info/history.php
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