HAITI: PUNISHED FOR REVOLUTION

In this clip, one of Haiti’s staunchest defenders - Randall Robinson, a lawyer-activist who once went on hunger strike over US treatment of Haitian refugees (and got the Clinton administration to change its policy!), and who passed just over a year ago - lays out two key facts about the world’s first Black republic: the West has never forgiven the Caribbean nation for liberating itself from its shackles, and the island will always be a natural home for oppressed freedom fighters the world over. Haiti had to be made an example out of. France, for example, used military threats to extract huge amounts in reparations for ‘lost earnings’ from highly profitable slave plantations - in what was essentially a heist. Hear Robinson tell it, and let us know - who’s got Haiti’s back now?