Obama’s America – Episode # 269 – Cuba Si!!, Haiti???

What About Haiti President Obama?

By Arthur Piccolo

News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Thurs. Mar. 24, 2016: For all my brilliant, very justified criticism of Barack Obama episode after episode, I have nothing but praise for him for Iran and especially Cuba.

Sadly for Barack, here in Obama’s America, that also leads to more valid criticism of him and his Administration in this new episode.

First, let me set up the context by way of Cuba. In its own way, I think President Obama’s finest achievement among his few that are notable as opposed to expected and pedestrian, is Cuba and what he has accomplished.

Administration after Administration for the last 50 years since the embargo and far longer – in a wider context American Presidents – have been BRAIN DEAD on Cuba. Rather than viewing Cuba as a key aspect of American foreign policy, they have all treated Cuba as literally America’s worst enemy – even Satan Himself. Cuba had been listed for decades – until President Obama removed them – as one of only three nations on Earth that was the “ultimate terrorist threat” to the United States. They were North Korea, Iran and Cuba.

That puts into proper perspective how MINDLESS U.S. policy toward Cuba has been. There are a huge number of very imperfect countries around the world that the U.S. regularly does business with and has diplomatic ties that proves how painfully “silly” isolating Cuba has been.

The Whacked Out Right Wing Republicans still prove how OUT of touch with reality they are in lining up to proclaim how “wrong” Obama is on Cuba and that we should elect a Republican President because Republicans will put Cuba back on the DEMON list and isolate Cuba completely!

Anyone with half a brain, and that includes many Americans, know that the best the only way to improve Cuba is to engage them, offer them the fruits awaiting Cuba and Cubans by embracing American values and even much more, American products and services, rather than embargoing them.

So President Obama’s positive actions toward Cuba – even if it took 6 years into his Presidency – are all for the good of both America and Cuba. Going to Cuba himself this week, even if it was a vacation, is the best move of all.

My ultimate compliment to President Obama – and you may never see it again here in Obama’s America – is that Cuba will become a far, far better place and be allowed to reach its potential because of Barack Obama.

Now that I have set the stage let’s get to the BAD news that is at the heart of Obama’s America week after week …

WHAT ABOUT HAITI PRESIDENT OBAMA???

Relating Haiti to Cuba makes perfect sense. Even if it might not to some at first, after reading this episode it will for sure. No Haiti has not been the victim of an American embargo nor been compared to Satan. Haiti has been the victim of American NEGLECT with the very same results.

What neglect??? With all that disaster relief from America?

That is right – NEGLECT!. Compare disaster relief in the case of Haiti with the quality of relief we give homeless individuals here in the U.S. – a  miserable dangerous shelter to sleep at night and some cheap food to eat while doing nothing at all to improve their lives or end their homelessness!

Let me add an important fact here. Do you know what two countries in the entire Caribbean have the largest populations? Yes of course the question announces the answer. Cuba and Haiti – both about 10 million more or less.

So if we lived in a logical American foreign policy world – Cuba and Haiti would have been the highest focus of American interest rather than neglect. In fact, America’s neglect of Haiti goes back much, much further than Cuba’s. Call it Jefferson’s Curse because it began with the Slave Master President Thomas Jefferson.

This passage from a Wikipedia entry titled: “United States and the Haitian Revolution” says it all …

“Thomas Jefferson realized that the Haitian Revolution had the potential to cause an upheaval against slavery in the US by not only the slaves themselves, but by white abolitionists as well. Southern slaveholders feared that the revolt might spread from the island of Hispaniola to the slave plantations of the Southern United States. The primary goal of the US was to maintain social order in the country, so the United States attempted to suppress the Haitian Revolution.”

ENCORE ….

“Thomas Jefferson realized that the Haitian Revolution had the potential to cause an upheaval against slavery in the US.”

So rather than support the freedom loving Haitians rising up against their own Slave Masters, the French, the Pathetic Thomas Jefferson worked effectively to CRUSH the Haitian Revolution.

Had the Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint L’Ouverture been successful, Haiti was poised to become the leading nation in the Caribbean and a key U.S. ally and it is not difficult to project that today Haiti would be the Caribbean’s shining light and it’s most prosperous.

Let me taken a moment for an aside here because it defines the REAL Thomas Jefferson perfectly. The young United States and Jefferson personally had NO reason to work to CRUSH the Haitian Revolution EXCEPT if you factor in – it was a BLACK Revolution. This unambiguously proves where Jefferson’s deepest interest was to be found maintaining SLAVERY! Jefferson, who was in love with the French Revolution and wanted the Americans to go to extremes to support that WHITE revolution, took the exact opposite position on the BLACK Haitian revolution.

Rot in hell Thomas Jefferson!

Without going into the history of Haiti the last two hundred years, it is enough to note here in this episode that history sets the tone for American attitude toward Haiti for over two centuries – far longer than towards Cuba.

Now President Obama is ‘effectively’ (sic) continuing the neglect of Haiti. How bad are conditions in Haiti? Haiti is regularly referred to – and has long been – as the POOREST country in the Western Hemisphere. Let that sink in – Haiti the POOREST country in the Western Hemisphere and literally within touching distance of the U.S. mainland.

You would think wouldn’t you, simply as a matter of America pride, we would be too EMBARRASSED to have a very friendly nation so close to our own country with this horrible title and for that reason alone, American Presidents would take a deep interest in Haiti?  WRONG!

President Obama is proving this just as ‘well’ as all of his predecessors – beginning with Thomas Jefferson. Yes the BLACK President Obama.

So here again we have the brilliance of Obama’s America. Nowhere else will you find that President Obama’s laudatory success with Cuba provides proof of his dismal failure of neglect with Haiti.

So when are you going to visit Haiti President Obama?

Let me answer that question for you. NEVER!!

About The Writer: Arthur Piccolo is a professional writer and commentator and often writes about Latin America for New Americas.