2017 Capsized : Haiti Asylum Seekers Pack a Car Searching for Life and Liberty
In a hostile American Mediterranean, the descendants of the liberators in North and South America cannot find liberty for themselves and their children. Ironically, Haitians still pay the price for freeing themselves, their island and five South American countries not to mention helping to double the size of the United States and inspiring countless liberators throughout world history.
How many were fitted in this small car like a Middle Passage journey? Running away from the penal colony and misery the new Tonton Makouts/U.S.-UN/charitable industrial complex have made for the Black masses in Haiti… as they bleed the land and people dry of every resource?
This video shows a group of Haitian refugees traveling through international borders, trying to escape their HOMEland, in search of a better life. (Source: Posted at Free Haiti Movement by Marjory Sheba/Facebook.)
From Brazil to the United States
The 7,000 mile treacherous Haitian journey across 11 countries
Instead of Florida, Haitians who had gone, after the earthquake, to Brazil and Chile are heading for the U.S. southwestern San Diego border through Mexico, making a staggering 7,000-mile journey that starts in Brazil and traverses 11 countries in South and Central America.
Warsan Shire is a poet from Somalia. Her words in “HOME” below, captures the stark reality of a refugee when home is a place for Borno and Penn to collect funds for, built a tent. But for you “prison is safer
Than a city of fire.
And, one prison guard in the night
Is better than a truckload of men
Who look like your father.”
Shire excavates the shame and survival imperatives we’re all too familiar and that we share as asylum seekers fleeing the charnel house Western neoliberalism has turned Haiti into.
Denied life, liberty, security and safety, the Haiti migrants flee a perilous landscape created by the humanitarians, the local Middle Eastern oligarchs, their schooled Haiti collaborators and US-UN “peacekeepers,'” and the cholera and other foul international diseases and perversions they’ve brought to Haiti akin to smallpox-in-a-blanket and the Columbus pedophiles. Haiti refugees flee from the Eurasian’s fake aid, fake respectability, fake elections, fake democracy, their racism/white dominion eugenics, neocolonialism/neoliberalism and barbaric profit-over-people rampage…
New migration: Haitians carve a dangerous 7,000-mile path to the U.S. Photo credit: Miami Herald
Èzili’s HLLN/FreeHaiti can track this tragedy; our fellow Haitian asylum seekers in their quest for a better life and freedom for 30-years now. See, Èzili Dantò’s Capsized 1997, 2007 and the coping long ago. Putting pain to poetry at Breaking Sea Chains, the Red Sea and Vodun jazzoety at RBM Video Reel. And now, how do we articulate? Find words for the treacherous 7000-mile trek from Brazil to the U.S. border – the latest Haitian migration trend in 2017? Haiti’s Holocaust and Middle Passage Continues.
HOME
No one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark.
You only run for the border,
When you see the whole city running as well.
Your neighbors running faster than you.
Breath, bloody in their throats.
The boy you went to school with,
Who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory,
Is holding a gun bigger than his body.
You only leave home,
When home won’t let you stay.
No one leaves home unless home chases you.
Fire under feet, hot blood in your belly.
It’s not something you ever thought of doing, Until the blade burnt threats into your neck.
And, even then,
You carried the anthem under your breath,
Only tearing up your passport in an airport toilet.
Sobbing as each mouthful of paper
made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back.
You have to understand,
That no one puts their children in a boat
Unless the water is safer than the land.
No one burns their palms under trains,
Beneath carriages.
No one spends days and nights
In the stomach of a truck, feeding on newspaper.
Unless the journey ahead means something more than the miles traveled.
No one crawls under fences.
No one wants to be beaten, pitied.
No one chooses refugee camps.
Or, strip searches,
Where your body is left aching.
Or, prison,
Because prison is safer
Than a city of fire.
And, one prison guard in the night
Is better than a truckload of men
Who look like your father.
No one could take it.
No one could stomach it.
No one’s skin would be tough enough.
The
“Go home blacks,
Refugees,
Dirty immigrants,
Asylum seekers,
Sucking our country dry.
Niggers with their hands out,
They smell strange, savages,
Messed up their country and now they
Want to mess ours up.”
How do the words, the dirty looks
Roll off your backs?
Maybe because the blow is softer
Than a limb torn off.
Or, the words are more tender
Than fourteen men between your legs.
Or, the insults are easier to swallow
Than rubble, than bone.
Than your child body in pieces.
I want to go home,
But home is the mouth of a shark.
Home is the barrel of the gun.
And, no one would leave home,
Unless home chased you to the shore.
Unless home told you to quicken your legs,
Leave your clothes behind,
Crawl through the desert,
Wade through the oceans.
Drown. Save yourself.
Be hunger. Beg. Forget pride.
Your survival is more important.
No one leaves home
Until home is a sweaty voice in your ear
Saying- leave, run away from me now.
I don’t know what I’ve become,
But, I know that anywhere
Is safer than here. -Warsan Shire
All of Haiti a World Heritage Site, a cultural, economic and historical territory for the descendants of Desalin and Toya that cannot be sold or stolen.
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Ézili Dantò, Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) and Free Haiti Movement, November 7, 2017
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