Then and now - I am become monster

And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind?

Let our answer be this: America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. ...

She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights. America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity.

She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights.

This is accurate. The island nation of Haiti was born of a violent revolution. A colony of France, in a complicated series of ever-shifting political - military alignments, the former slave Toussaint Louverture managed to drive the British and Spanish out, and finesse the appointed French government representatives back to France. French forces led by Napoleon's brother Gen. Charles Leclerc returned, defeated and imprisoned Louverture.


The dishonorable treatment of Louverture (author of Haiti's Constitution) enraged the people he had led, and some more military political double dealing and intrigue, the French were defeated and Haiti declared its independence 1 January, 1804.


The U.S. government refused to recognize Haitian independence until 1862, although France recognized its independence earlier, in 1825.

She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart.

She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right.
Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.
But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.
She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.
The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force....
She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit....
[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.

The Achilles heel of the so-called “American dream” continues to be the nightmare of its own hypocrisy. As the late, world-renowned activist, anti-colonialist, and author, Frantz Fanon, correctly noted, “Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.” [Reference: Frantz Fanon’s, book titled, The Wretched of the Earth.]

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The U.S. corporate media of disinformation would have Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, and White peoples believe that the United States is built and maintained upon justice and democracy when in fact, it is built and perilously maintained upon the slippery pillars of subterfuge, injustice, and enormous hypocrisy. There are those who would have us believe that genocide, slavery, and economic exploitation are somehow simply all in the past and not an integral and ongoing part of this nation’s existence.

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The hypocrisy, cynical racism, and greed of the U.S. power elite are at the root of this nation’s internal and external quagmires. Even now, the elite of the U.S. corporate / military / prison apparatus is greedily eyeing Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Peru - to name a few - with a view toward neutralizing and smashing the legitimate people’s struggles there that oppose U.S. intervention, domination, and control. The U.S., working in conjunction with certain sell-outs of the African peoples, is in the process of enlarging its bloody military presence, control, and exploitation on that continent. The name of the game for the U.S. power elite remains, maximum economic exploitation and control, at all costs.