A FEARFUL MOMENT IN HENRY KISSINGER’S MEMOIRS
“HENRY THEY’RE GOING TO BREAK THROUGH THE BARRICADES AND GET US.”? President, Richard Nixon
“1971 Tens of thousands of anti- war protesters surrounded the White House and to protect the White House empty city buses were placed end to end ?as a kind of wagon train around the White House. According to Kissinger, President Nixon on looking out the window at the protestors said “Henry they’re going to break through the barricades and get us.”?
Chapter 6: A Pariah
“To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.”
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Ayn Rand
Before I began my research on Haiti, I was inclined to believe everything negative told to me about that nation; anything ?I read in newspaper columns or coming over the airwaves via television or radio.
?I viewed the Haitians as malingers and the society culturally regressive. A people who, for centuries, seem to lack the capacity to move their country forward – in tandem - with European society, since their birth as an independent Republic in 1804.
After I completed my research, I had to disabuse myself from the grip of my ignorance.
To understand Haiti’s demise, I had to journey back to Spain before the Moors arrived (711), view the period of the Moorish Caliphate (711 – 1492), then comprehend what these Africans had accomplished in Spain. After I had done this, I understood – better – what James Burke meant when he wrote, “The intellectual community which the northern scholars found in Spain was so far superior to what they had at home that it left a lasting jealousy of Arab culture, which was to color Western opinions for centuries" (Burke, 1985, p. 41). And it is still being done today.
The Berbers had managed Spain well. Knowledgeable Europeans were not about to let this happen in Haiti. Other cultures (non-European) were to be brought underfoot. “Caliphate” became a word, used with derision And ?meant to instill fear.
NOTE:
In 2008 after the first African American, Barack Obama, was elected President of the United States of America, Senate Opposition Majority leader Mitch McConnell convened a meeting of Republican leaders and a vote was taken to impede the President’s agenda; the President’s election by the people and their reasons for electing him, notwithstanding . Their goal was to ensure that this African American will not have a successful Presidency, to keep alive a false narrative that Africans are inferior and incompetent.
In Ramey Clark’s writing on, “Haiti's Agonies and Exaltations,” he noted the following: "The history of Haiti will break your heart. Knowing it, the weak will despair, but the caring will strive to break the chains of tragedy. " ..