With the death rate rising daily and the suffering faced by African people in Haiti deepening daily following Tuesday’s 7.0 earthquake, the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) and the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) held a press conference today at the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg. Dr. Aisha Fields, chair of AAPDEP opened the conference with a powerful statement published below.
The island country of Haiti where African people waged the first successful workers’ revolution that brilliantly defeated the French colonial slave master militarily in 1804 today faces an estimated 100,000 dead, thousands homeless and vast devastation following a massive earthquake on Jan. 12.
Editor's Note:
All over the world African people are catching hell. In Haiti, they blame it on an earthquake. In the U.S. they blame it on irresponsible black fathers. And in Italy they blame it on the backward locals. But the fact of the matter is is that all over the world wherever an African is we are catching hell, even on the African continent itself.
Reposted from telegraph.co.uk
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