President Ruto Of Kenya & His Ill-Advised Mission To Haiti
Placing Dr Ariel Henry on a plane with a one-way ticket to Kenya would be less costly and more effective.
With so much political awakening going on in Africa, I thought we had gotten rid of all the house negroes running governments on the continent. I may have been misinformed or clearly too optimistic. It appears that we still have a long way to go, specifically when it comes to the incumbent president of Kenya.
Ruto has been dragged like a willing idiot to come play cops in Haiti on behalf of the CORE group. With millions and possibly billions of American dollars on the table as enticement, he is well motivated to please master Blinken under the guise of a humanitarian mission to help his genetic cousins in Haiti…let’s name the Ruto/Blinken’s move: “black-skin diplomacy.”
What can possibly go wrong? It is merely black brothers helping other black brothers in distress…the propaganda will be unmistakable while pretending genuine concern for the Haitian people.
Does Ruto know anything about Haitian-Dominican history or just plain Haitian history?
Does Ruto know how much racist Dominicans — the Rafael Trujillo descendants of the genocidal leader and Hitler admirer — hate dark-skinned Africans and others of African descent — especially those endowed with a God-given, generous amount of melanin like him? Ruto is an embarrassment!
Like a docile negro, he sits there (in his video press conference with Abinader at the UN) with all smiles for his masters (Blinken and Dominican oligarchs) talking about “the need to open a Dominican mission in Kenya as the two countries are mature democracies.” Ruto needs to be taught or shown what a mature democracy looks like.
Kenya does NOT meet the standard of a mature democracy under any conventional measurement. Can someone tell Ruto too, that Kenyans would be treated worse than Haitians if they were to migrate to the Dominican Republic just like Haitians? For one thing, Dominicans could not tell Kenyans and Haitians apart and for sure would at least be in the same boat.
At least a small fraction of us Haitians could pass for Dominicans and be spared. Not so for Kenyans.
Under racial or xenophobic harassment, Haitians could also flee across the border back home for succor. But where would Kenyans go in such a scenario to save themselves from racist, white-pretending Dominicans in “the mature democracy”?
Well, the Kenyans could come home to Haiti of course — to the land of Dessalines, the birthplace of the original Afro-Civil Rights Movement as Ruto’s “mature” democracy would be incapable of helping his own citizens there. Naturally, we would receive our Kenyan cousins with open arms as envisioned and ordained by our forefathers.
Ruto should know too, that Abinader and the gang of racist nationalists who are his supporters would want nothing to do with Ruto or Kenyans if Kenya were a neighboring country — if you discount the exploitation Dominican oligarchs would visit upon Kenyans as the price for tolerating them on their soil.
In other words, in the Dominican’s view, Kenya would be a larger Haiti and therefore seen as a larger “problem” for the Dominican Republic. In light of this history of hatred on the part of our Afro-phobic neighbors to the East, Ruto had no business negotiating anything with the leaders of the Dominican Republic until they had/have learned to show respect for all Africans wherever they may be on the earth.
This is one more reason why this Kenyan, so-called humanitarian mission must be challenged and stopped. We do NOT need a military intervention designed by Dominicans and the U.S. embassy to pitch their tents in Haiti to guarantee Ariel’s continued tenure and provide safe passage to corrupt politicians and business interests.
If Ruto truly wanted to help his Haitian brothers and sisters instead of posturing to please the U.S. and be a tool at the service of neo-colonialists, what he should have done for example would be to reach out to the leaders of South Africa, Namibia, Angola and Rwanda to persuade them to join forces with him to help out Haiti in an African-led, African-conceived and African-financed, independent mission.
THAT would be a mission worth celebrating and embracing — especially if it were conditioned on Ariel’s immediate departure after the African troops had arrived in Haiti. Through such a mission, Africa would find the perfect diplomatic cover to plant the pan-African flag in Haiti and begin at once the reconnection of Haiti to the mothership — the African continent and the African Union.
To give America fit and for good measure, the African leaders could also invite the Cubans to join them in the mission AFTER the African soldiers had been deployed in Haiti, to provide “medical” assistance to the poor, and to serve as medics for the troops.
I am well aware that this last step would not be wise, considering the grip America has on Haiti and America’s continued paranoia about Cuba. But the mischief would be tempting.
Ariel must go!
He is NOT fit to lead our country. Forget about his illegitimacy for a minute; ignore his alleged involvement in Jovenel’s torture and butchery. Even so, the man is plain incompetent. Ariel cannot even get the trash picked up in Port-au-Prince. He is a bona fide slob — an assessment made purely based on objective evidence. Ariel is “presiding” over the filthiest nation of the Caribbean and quite possibly the world. Sanitation does not appear to be among his concerns — a paradoxical deficiency for a man trained as a physician. Naming Ariel “Dr. Trash” (creole translation: “Fatra Doc”. From Papa doc to Fatra doc) would hardly be an exaggeration or unfair. Ariel must be swept away.
A case can be made for a foreign army to be permitted to set foot in Haiti, but only on one condition: to support and undergird a truly legitimate, competent, technocratic, and impartial, transitional government — preferably led by an honorable Haitian American or Haitian Canadian currently living in the diaspora — whose mission would be to:
1) end the out-of-control criminality and put the kidnappers and criminals operating with impunity in Haiti out of business for good
2) reform and retrain the police to effectively “serve & protect” as they are sworn to do
3) reform the judiciary by eradicating corruption and empaneling competent judges and civil servants
4) set up a constitutional convention to obtain a mandate — via a referendum — for a new or revised constitution
5) reform and audit all government ministries and authorities to institutionalize transparency and integrity in all governmental affairs
6) establish an independent/impartial electoral commission of 11 members — with one member representing each of our 10 regional departments, plus a tie-breaking chairperson selected at large
7) organize new municipal and national elections for all elected officers in an orderly manner and finally,
8) obtain the unconditional resignation of the transitional government at the transfer of power to a duly elected government.
Was any of this discussed with Ruto before agreeing to the mission? I strongly doubt it. An intervention with a mandate to protect a transitional process as described above would be worth embracing and supporting.
This is not what Ariel, Abinader, and Blinken are proposing to give us in Haiti.
Let us not forget that Ariel was placed in power with the full complicity of the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince to ensure the perennity of the criminal gang that had hired him days before the sitting president was assassinated in his bedroom. Ariel’s sole objective is to complete the assigned task by delivering a fraudulent s-election of the next chosen leader of Haiti as a way to avoid prison under a future legitimate government, exile (if his foreign handlers care to spirit him out of the country), or an ugly death, if he loses the favor of his masters or the betrayed gang members he would leave behind “holding the bag” catch up to him.
So, we must say NO to this Kenya-led, America-financed prop-up mission for Ariel and Frantz Elbé - the current police chief and loyal enabler of the de facto prime minister. Elbé is no Traoré.
Some may think that it is too late to block the Kenyan mission, given that it has been approved by the UN Security Council. I do not share that view. It is still up to us. But stopping the Kenyan deployment in Haiti would require an uprising à la Ouanaminthe. However, we may not be up to another challenge at this time. That’s unfortunate.
We are so far behind as a people; we cannot afford to be weary. We must press on for us to have any chance of winning the battle for dignity and prosperity for all Haitians.
Guerton “Babi” Auguste, an engineer and native of Haiti, resides in Boston MA. He is the author of the Lascahobas Plan, the only truly impartial, non-partisan proposal for a real and comprehensive political transition in Haiti.
