Ota Benga Alliance For Peace, Healing and Dignity

BACK AND FORTH
FROM AFRICA TO HAITI TO GAZA:
FIDELITY TO HUMANITY

Jacques Depelchin

First , not quite, but we have to start somewhere,
There were the Arawaks, the Caribs and the Amerindians
Then their land became known as Hispaniola,
As Saint Domingue, as the economic jewel
Of French overseas possessions
Thanks to Africans kidnapped, chained, shipped
Processed, codified, stamped as property
While always knowing they belonged
To no one but humanity
And through fidelity to humanity
Turned Saint Domingue into Haiti
Fraternity, equality and liberty
Their only motto  read more »