Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from a new column in the Laney Tower newspaper, "Back to Black." The column is written by The Black Hour producer Reginald James. Be sure to visit LaneyTower.com for the complete scoop.
An estimated 200,000 people have died after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated the island nation of Haiti on Jan. 12. One million people are homeless, according to the U.N. and untold numbers of children are now orphaned.
This natural disaster is rooted in the economic and military intervention by those who hate to see Black people free.
As abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a U.S. Minister to Haiti said once, the “revolutionary spirit of Haiti is her curse, her crime, her greatest calamity and the explanation of the limited condition of her civilization.”
Read the entire "Don't hate Haiti because it's Black" column on LaneyTower.com.
Haiti: Don't hate me because I'm Black
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Rasheed Shabazz
