Retweeting again, because this morning has been nothing but facts🔥
https://twitter.com/blackleftaf/status/1430902937136467980
Why the occupation in Haiti isn’t talked about as such, even though Haiti’s occupation is co-signed by “international community” + Western states who use Haiti to launch off other imperialist aggression in the region:
“Because Haiti is Haiti. Because Haiti is Black” and to acknowledge this would be to talk about white supremacy, occupation, etc — Jemima Pierre
How empire uses anti-blackness + turns it on its head in its favour —: we see this as it condones anti-Black violence in Colombia, trumps sovereignty in Haitian, and intends to use this language against Cuba
We ignore racial analysis at our own peril — Jemima Pierre
We ignore racial analysis at our own peril — Jemima Pierre
Nothing above is 100% verbatim, I was listening and then trying to tweet back from memory
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