THE MAGNITUDE OF 1804
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BORN IN HAITI
NATIF NATAL
1804
My country is the most beautiful one on earth. I am one of the luckiest men on this planet to being born in Haiti. No matter what gossipping one may choose to peddle over my country, I love it, I admire it, I adore it more than any others. HAITI IS A BEAUTY.
I was born free not having to surrender my CHARACTER and my sense of pride to anybody else. Black I am. This does not make me inferior or lesser than any of my counterparts. God made me like I am and He planted my ombilical chord IN HAITI for a purpose. I was taught in a certain way to NOT ever abase myself in any circumstances in front of anybody but to love, to cherish, to respect, not to offend ANY OF my fellow-citizens. I have learned that my forefathers came from Africa and by force they landed in this America of no return. They have forged and created a Nation under the worst inimaginable sufferings in the year of the Lord 1804, the greatest year in BLACK HISTORY.
1804 brought me to the light of free consciousness which permits me today to proudly say that I am really somebody thanks to the sacrifices and the martyrdom of Toussaint Louverture, of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, of Henri Christophe, of Alexandre Petion and of all others who confronted their masters on the fields and won highly the war of the Independence of this Great Nation in November 1803, thus a new Nation was born on January 1, 1804.
1804 was the year when the First Black Men of St.Domingue, America, said no to slavery. They pierced with their opened chests the barriers of ostracism, the bridges of Racial discrimination to elevate me to the heights of tasting the milk and honey of liberty when their machetes, their arrows, in spite of the machin guns of the French colons, the crosses to bear, made those conquerors trembled and surrendered for the first time to the Scypions of the new Caribbean ordeal.
1804 was the time when the voices of these Titans were heard through the noises of arms through the Mahogany mountains and fields and rivers of St.Domingue echoing the sufferings of these poor Negroes enslaved days and nights in the sugar cane and cotton fields of the Indies through which Mother Africa would never hear again about them.
1804 was the path towards deliverance for those men, considered as animals, when God, the God of the children of Sham at last heard their cries in the wilderness from that infernal St.Domingue filled up with barbarism, crimes, hatred, for their only sins to be Africans, Negroes...BLACKS...
1804 was the sound of the conch shell (LE LAMBI) that woke up the valleys up to the remote areas of Hispaniola through the Bahoruco in which the word Liberty, sweet Liberty resounded having the meaning of hopes, of human dignity for all Negroes of America victims of harsh and shameful treatments ever done by the masters and colons by choking them down like things, beasts without rights.
1804 has opened a new page of history in America. It was the end of those calamities, of those miseries for all of us born here.
1804 was a call of triumph for all Tainos, all Indian souls of St.Domingue that were massacred by the Spaniards for their gold awaiting in their graves a voice which could liberate them from the abyss of eternal injustice of their oppressors whose crimes were forgotten by a silent history. Now they may hear the crescendo hymns of their African Brothers and Sisters from HAITI singing loudly for them the "Requiem Eternam dona eis Domine" where ever those conquerors hid their bones, their Royal carcasses in the sands of La Magua, of Higuey, of la Maguana,of le Xaragua, of le Marien...
1804 was the the year of Renaissance of a land where the grandchildren of Gaou Guinou the king of the Aradas saw for the first time the sunrise, the new Birth of a Nation, the new State of Conditions of a Great People who had suffered, pained, forced to hard labor for more than 300 years of abominations, of sufferings.
1804 has edited the reality of the Haitian Negroes dreams elevated them to Nations Builders instead of "slaves-animals" bringing hope to all others still in chains throughout this great AMERICA. From the Horn of Africa to a continent called America they have created a nation from the sweats of their foreheads, an all BLACK Nation was born with a powerful meaning in mankind history: The first successful Black revolt of the world has transformed America to a continent in which liberty will flow for all children of God looking for a brighter future to being considered as human beings not animals or slaves of person. . On this year all Jericho's mountains have fallen and melted with the sands of the Caribbean beaches. The Seas have vomited their hidden and ferocious atrocities. The bones of all Negro children thrown over board of the slaves ships to the hungry sharks during the crossing have revived from the valleys of death beneath the devouring ocean floors.
1804 has awakened the whole world and shaken its foundation . It has opened the roads of letting others know that Black men, Black Women, Mulattoes, Yellows, Reds, Whites whosoever you were, born in that St.Domingue or elsewhere, you may inherit of God's deliverance. Life is sacred. Liberty is yours without no restraints by prejudice, bigotry or else.
1804 was made for every human being in thirst of Justice, Equality and Liberty.
1804 was the open Cathechism for all Negroes who are still kept enslaved for them to know that "all men were created equal in the sight of God" and they are all children of God, they may be still free one day...
1804 opened for the first time the mouths of the Latin American Men, Women, Children allowing them to sing loudly; "O libertad, dulce libertad" from their masters with great men like Miranda, Simon Bolivar holding high the Blue and Red Flag newly created on May 18, 1803 by the Giants of Haiti up to the mountains, to the plains of South America liberating Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Chili, Ecuador, Bolivia...thanks to those sublime Haitians.
1804 with its sons and daughters saw the rise of the Negro children (the African-Americans) of this Great United States of America grow up under the banner of 1776. From 1773 to 1780, those same Negroes of St.Domingue (now Haitians) immortalized themselves on the plains of Savannah, Georgia, the heights of Alabama, the hills of Washington up to the depht of Louisiana fighting alongside of the great General George Washington towards the Independence of the United States of America in shedding their Black Blood for a great cause. The HAITIANS were there,.. They were there with their machetes, with their arrows, with their flesh sacrificing their lives for America's Liberty.
1804 with its children have tolled the bell of conciousness leading and standing in the PREAMBULE of a marvelous DREAM made by an Apostle of Peace and Reconciliation Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr and of those great AFRICAN- AMERICAN Brothers and Sisters marching towards their struggles for their liberty, their dignity and their Human rights opening the barriers of suppressing racism, racial discrimination, accepting the fate of Grandeur in death risks and humiliations towards their Civil Rights cries through the walls, the streets of America beginning from the iron will of a little woman ROSA PARKS who refused to abase herself before injustice up to the Allelujahs of JESSIE JACKSON, CHARLIE RANGELS, Reverend ARL SHARPTON, the BLACK CAUCUS and all the Great Brothers and Sisters of ALABAMA and elsewhere to elevating one of their sons BARACK OBAMA, the First African-American Man sitting now at the desk of the Great George Washington, of Abraham Lincoln, of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, of Lyndon B. Johnson, of Ronald Reagan, of William Jefferson Clinton, George Walker Bush etc, as President of these great United States of America...
1804 covered Hispaniola of its feathers when the Dominicans freely came to the doors of Santo Domingo with flowers hailing their new Haitian " Libertadores" begging them for protection against their former crual Spanish rulers and that happened for a period of 21 years of Annum Deum. FERRAND DE BEAUDIERE had made a big mistake by handing over this part of the Island to the Spanish Gallions whose later would regret it fom the hands of the Emperor JEAN JACQUES DESSALINES, of President JEAN PIERRE BOYER, and of the Emperor FAUSTIN SOULOUQUE OF HAITI...This is what History has hidden and forgotten to mention about the BLACK and POWERFUL EMPIRE of HAITI.
1804 has given me everything poor Negro like I am who grew up under the harsh sun and storms of that tropical Republic of Haiti made only for me, forsaken by many others. NEGRO I AM and I am not ashamed to be called like this. I am proud to be a HAITIAN NEGRO. We have given our name to a portion of human history. I am a FREE MAN.
1804 is an Heritage, a Testament for all of us. We are all Haitians and the Country belongs to all of us without distinction of the skin color,origin, religion or race. We must all love our brothers, our sisters for the Glory of God and the pride of our Ancestors. We have sufferred together. We have drank the sour chalice of rejection, of racism. History belongs to all of us. Our pride lies on our longsuffering efforts to resist, to peacefully fight for our honor, for our dignity, for our rights to be able to live in harmony with every good-will human being for our survival on this planet. O Haiti, thou hath given us so much. Nothing, nothing can ever separate us from Thee.
May the Lord richly bless all of us. "United We Stand, Divided We Fall". (Dr. Jean-Renaud Guillaume, JD, D.TH.)
(Posted by Negibo d'Haiti).
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UN CRI POUR LA JEUNESSE HAITIENNE
NOTRE FUTUR
La Jeunesse Haïtienne constitue notre pépinière intellectuelle et l'espoir de notre pays. Elle est notre assûrance pour le futur.
Cette jeunesse bien souvent oubliée de nous a besoin plus d'encadrements tant sur le point de vue cuturel , social, éducatif mais moral. Nous avons négligé notre jeunesse. "Malheur à l'Empire qui ne prend point soins et ne sait plus élever ses enfants", aurait dit l'autre. Nous ne pouvons pas reléguer au second plan ces jeunes qui ont tant besoin de nous. Nous avons des Maitres et des Educateurs Indigénistes très compétents dans le pays. Ils ont fait de leur mieux avec le peu d'outils éducatifs qu'ils en possèdent afin d'assûrer la relêve pour nous en prodiguant une éducation sérieuse et couronnée de fruits partout où nous passons. Plusieurs d'entre nous sont ce que nous sommes à l'étranger, c'est grâce à ces Géants qui, depuis là-bas, nous ont pourvoyés de leurs sommes de connaissances que nous avons acquises d'alors. Nous avons besoin de la Jeunesse Haitienne pour faire la continuité et pour embellir l'image de notre pays.
Nous faisons donc un appel urgent à vous tous de bonne volonté à aider notre jeunesse à s'émanciper, à s'épanouir davantage en pensant un peu à elle, en prenant soins d'elle d'une façon ou d'une autre car nous savons qu'il y a parmi nous des gens de bien, très sérieux qui en pourront faire les premiers pas. Ne jetons pas le blâme sur le gouvernement seul. Appuyons le secteur privé honnêtement et respectueusement et nous verrons si nous n'arriverions pas à porter des fruits. Nos écoles, nos universités sont en ruine. Nos Universitaires, nos jeunes ont besoin de livres, d'ordinateurs, de soutiens financiers afin de faire fâce à la nouvelle technologie, le progrès et l'avancement du 21ème siêcle. Nous avons besoin de les nourrir. Arrêtons de traiter les autres de voleurs, de "margouilleurs" par méchanceté, car nous savons bien que personne n'a rien fait de mal à personne. Tout le monde fait semblant qu'Haiti n'existe plus, mêmes parmi quelques uns d'entre-nous des plus honnêtes, les vrais fils du pays, nous feignons d'ignorer le problême Haitien. Soyons sérieux alors, le pays a besoin de nous. Nous vous respectons; votre crédibilité est hautement estimée de nous. Nos yeux sont braqués sur vous.
L'équipe de nouvelles de Full Gospel Apostolic Church of God de Los Angeles/La Mission Chrétienne d'Haiti ont rencontré quelques jeunes gens et demoiselles, les fleurs d'Haiti, gradués de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Internationales qui revenaient de stage de trois mois à l'ONU à New York . Ces jeunes-là nous ont déclaré qu'ils n'ont aucun espoir en retournant là-bas de trouver du travail et qu'ils ont un contrat avec l'ONU afin de retourner dans la Mère-Patrie à cause de leur visa. Larmes aux yeux ces enfants là nous ont creuvé le coeur. Impuissants, nous les regardons prendre le chemin du retour la tête haute avec la même dignité et la même fierté Haitiennes. Qu'allons-nous faire alors, Frères et Soeurs Haitiens?
La Jeunesse Haitienne représente notre seule espérance pour la Patrie, elle est en pleines difficultés tant pécuniaires que criticales. Nous avons besoin d'aller de l'avant non pas reculer. Tout espoir n'est pas pour autant perdu. Il n'est plus question de Moi "Monsieur Un tel ou Moi Madame Une telle", ce temps-là est révolu. Nous ne voulons pas demander la charité au nom de qui que ce soit, mais il est un devoir pour nous de faire un effort afin de promouvoir cette jeunesse si chère à nous. L'élite d'Haiti ne doit pas périr, elle doit survivre pour le bien de la Nation. A bon entendeur salut. Merci.
Jean-Renaud Guillaume, JD, D.TH
(Posté par Negibo d'Haiti)
HONNEUR AUX MAMANS HAITIENNES
Nos artistes Haitiens ont chanté à tue-tête les vaillantes et nobles Mamans Haitiennes. Nous ne pouvons pas résister ces charmes et nous vous présentons ces tubes des années passées honorant nos adorables mères:
Click :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1N-Q-MiZew&videos=PnbEIE8Xjlg&playnext_from=TL&playnext=1
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UN HOMMAGE BIEN MERITE A NOTRE PASTEUR
Notre équipe de la section des nouvelles a été très flattée de visiter le COIN DE CARL Fombrun de Miami et les belles rubriques sur les Haitiens d'outre-mer.
Nous avons été très surpris par un merveilleux article écrit par un de nos contemporains Monsieur Henry Delva au sujet de notre Pasteur dont voici la teneur:
Mon Cher Carl:
Si aujourd'hui j'ai choisi de parler de la vie et l'oeuvre magnanime qu'entreprend un homme d'une remarquable bonté et d'une bienveillance illimitée dont les actes de secours à l'endroit des nécessiteux est d'un caractère touchant, c'est parceque certaines actions pleines de grâce et de noblesse doivent être contées. Il s'agit du Pasteur Jean-Renaud Guillaume, Fondateur de l'Eglise "La Mission Chrétienne d'Haiti à Los Angeles" où le recueillement des fidèles dévoile cette paix du coeur que l'Eternel accorde à ceux qui ont réellement la Foi en lui.
Les sermons du Pasteur Renaud sont d'un language simple et profond où les messages de réconfort vont de pair avec l'aide octroyée à ces familles en détresse. Le Pasteur Jean-Renaud Guillaume est aussi très qualifié en matière d'immigration, ce qui profite aux Haitiens non-documentés qui assistent aux services religieux. A part son Doctorat en Théologie, il est le conseiller d'une grande partie de la communauté Haitienne sur un grand nombre de lois concernant La Sécurité Sociale et le droit des citoyens quant aux assurances qui couvrent les accidents et les cas d'infirmité prévus par l'Etat de la Californie.
Si je devais énumérer les qualités d'âme du Pasteur Jean-Renaud Guillaume, l'une d'entr'elles qui attire mon attention est sa façon discrète de repartir le peu qu'il possède aux moins favorisés du sort. A ma façon de comprendre le sens de la vie, je t'assure mon cher Carl, qu'il vit sa religion, pas seulement en la prêchant, mais aussi en la pratiquant, et quand tu viendras à Los Angeles, tu verras combien les visages tristes d'hier ont aujourdhui un sourire d'espoir inspirés par la Foi.
A très bientôt mon cher frère.
Henry Delva
(Posté par Henry Delva au coin de Carl à Miami, Florida)
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We need you, we appreciate you. Please come and visit us @Full Gospel Apostolic Church of God in Los Angeles and see what we are doing. Bring a smile to the faces of our unfortunate people. Please in the Name of God help us, don't let us close the door of La Mission Chretienne d'Haiti de Los Angeles. Pastor Renaud does not know how He can make it to fullfil his dreams of love, of charity towards his brothers and sisters. He is doing his best but he is short- handed, the Church has received no help whatsoever. Thank you very much for your support and we respectfully need you.
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