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Wyclef Running For Haiti's Presendency

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LONDON!!:

--- Quote from: M Dogg on August 09, 2010, 02:41:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: LONDON!! on August 09, 2010, 02:15:21 PM ---@m dogg

obama is a system controlled conman puppet, are you saying that western corporate interests control michel martelly?

because you seem to know a lot and seem to be up on haitian politics, because michel dosen't seem like a puppet to me

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He doesn't seem like a puppet, but as you know I was a strong supporter of Obama and so far I am seeing him trying to navigate the worlds of both the supporters he had and trying to not step on the establishment's toes, and I fear that might be Martelly's fate as well. I have no reason so far to believe though that Martelly is a puppet, so I will have to keep an eye on him.

I only got into Haitian politics 5 years ago, when I took a Latin American history class. We had a visiting professor who was genius, his name is Dennis Hildago, and he knew Latin American politics in and out. At the same time, people were protesting Aristide getting over thrown, and I decided to go see some film makers who were documenting the protest in Haiti. They had footage that was not seen in the US, or even actually released documentaries because no one wanted to touch it from a pro-Aristide point of view. When it came time for the final project in our Latin American history class, my group drew Haiti, so it gave me a chance to study Haiti's past, and instead of going into the depths of Haiti's past like my group wanted, I insisted we go into Haiti since Baby Doc got overthrown, and the struggle to keep Aristide and the democracy in power. I was truly into it, and I still follow Haitian politics to this day. We got an A in the class and the project, the professor was truly impressed and I learned so much about finding alternative news sources since the Times, Newsweek and all the other news sources in our library made Aristide to be a bad man. Looking at that footage though, talking to the people that were actually there, and finding actual Haitian news sources showed that Haiti had a strong distrust of the US, outsiders. Since the election of Obama though, Haiti has a positive attitude to the US, and since the earthquake, much has change, some even asking to be a US territory. It is this weakness in Haiti that I fear Haiti will lose it's independence and in turn it will lose it's financial independence, and maybe be like Costa Rica and forever be dependent on the US. Costa Rica once made it's own food, and then over time the US shipped "aid" in the form of cheap rice. Since then the people stopped buying local food, and farmers went out of business in Costa Rica. Now, unable to provide it's self with food, Costa Rica is forever depended on the US. Is it any wonder it was part of the Nations of the Willing during the Iraq War. Haiti will share the same fate.

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yeah i can't front, obama conned me aswell, he had me fooled supporting him too, even though i knew deep down his record and some of his ties despite those slick, conman speeches, despite those speeches before he got elected, i still knew deep down his record and ties didn't add up to his speeches but i wanted to believe what he was saying and hope for the best, but he's proved to me he's even worst than what i expected, he's deeply entrenched in and is a part of the system, wholeheartedly

but yeah, i love learning diffrent history's of our people, throughout the world, from the african & latino dispora in africa, carribean, south and central america and every other community on this planet too, worldwide, full stop, history is a beautiful thing, if you know your history, human beings will know were there going in life, thats the way i see it

i flopped in high school, i didn't get any qualifications, so i need to do a access course that will allow me to do a degree course at uni, to get better qualifications to get a higher paying job, because originally i wanted to do a law degree, but i was advised that i would be too old onced i completed the degree because i'm 31 now and i wouldn't be able to get a lawyer job, so i'm gonna do a social humanties access course that will include history, which i'm looking forward to doing, then our do a degree(i haven't decided which one yet) that will allow me to be a social worker, its a good job and its a better paid job than miminum wage, because i would like to go into real estate worldwide and raise enough capital to get my pan africanist projects on and poppin, you get what i'm saying fam, that history course you did sounded like it was big

props for putting me up on game cuzzy, salute fam

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