hawaii - Forum/Discussions - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-28T12:22:54Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/feed/tag/hawaiiBlack Women In The Haitian Revolutionhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/black-women-in-the-haitian-revolution2023-03-08T23:26:54.000Z2023-03-08T23:26:54.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Black Women In The Haitian Revolution</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10994639460,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10994639460,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="277" alt="10994639460?profile=RESIZE_400x" /></a></p><p> </p><p>As we celebrate <strong>Women’s History Month</strong> there is not enough time and space to share the brilliant and storied legacies of African women (the true mothers of humanity and civilization) both on the continent and throughout the Diaspora. Since the Great Maafa (a Swahili word describing the African holocaust) our Sisters have been under a triple whammy of racism, male chauvinism and misogyny and scorn for centuries. It is time they received their just due as major contributors to the growth and evolution of humanity and civilization. More information is becoming known about the marvelous achievements of African Queen Mothers and Queens who ruled on the throne serving their people <a href="https://www.ebony.com/7-african-queens-history/">https://www.ebony.com/7-african-queens-history/</a> for thousands of years but much more needs to be researched, discovered and shared.</p><p>The fact of the matter is, everywhere we find African people, we discover examples of nurturing, feminine beauty, authorityand wisdom coupled with outstanding service and contributions to their people. Women were essential in the advancement of humanity and civilization all over the world. For example little is known about the Blacks who ruled Hawaii, yes Africans ventured to, explored and settled throughout the Pacific Islands.</p><p>“Things your teacher never taught you in school include the birth-place of the original people of <strong>Hawaii</strong><strong>.</strong> Their ancestral linage is shrouded in lies, assimilation, deception, murder, genocide, myth, mystery and historical manipulation. All in an attempted to deceive and cover-up the fact that indigenous Hawaiians were Black and Brown people; descendants of the ‘motherland’ whose ancestral DNA link them directly to Africa.” <a href="https://eurweb.com/2016/black-hawaii-south-pacific-secrets-forbidden-history/">https://eurweb.com/2016/black-hawaii-south-pacific-secrets-forbidden-history/</a> The last indigenous Queen of Hawaii was Black and of African ancestry, “The first Hawaiians and their royals were dark skinned with distinct African features who ruled and lived in an African-style community. That was until the forceful invasion by whites in America who ended the royal lineage after destroying the reign of Queen Lili’uokalani. She is known to be the last Black royal of Hawaii and was the first and only woman to rule her people between 1891 and 1893.” <a href="https://www.amplifyafrica.org/the-last-black-queen-of-hawaii-who-was-overthrown-by-a-u-s-backed-coup/#:~:t">https://www.amplifyafrica.org/the-last-black-queen-of-hawaii-who-was-overthrown-by-a-u-s-backed-coup/#:~:t</a></p><p>The same is true of the African Sistahs who played pivotal roles in the liberation of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) Sistahs who did the actual fighting for independence and once the Republic was established played a major role in the life of the new nation. To pay homage to these valiant and noble women I will share just a few of their names and history and provide sources where you can get more information on them:</p><p><strong>Suzanne Belair</strong> aka Sanite’Belair, “Sanité or Suzanne Belair’s position as fighter and wife does not appear as iconoclast as some would make it seem. Born an affranchi ( a term for a mixed race person) in Verrettes in 1781, she took up arms in defense of L’Ouverture’s Saint Domingue against Leclerc and the very real specter of reinstated slavery. She distinguished herself in combat and rose in rank to earn the title of lieutenant. Ferocious and unrelenting, she managed several successes, but was eventually captured by the French (some sources say Dessalines, others Répussard). Sentenced to hanging, she demanded death by firing squad with respect to her military rank—a similar death forced upon her husband. In 2004 Haiti commemorated her by adding her face to the 10 gourde banknote. She is the second woman to appear on the note after Catherine Flon.” <a href="https://haitianhistory.tumblr.com/post/136360500113/suzanne-sanit%C3%A9-belair">https://haitianhistory.tumblr.com/post/136360500113/suzanne-sanité-belair</a></p><p><strong>Cecile Fatiman</strong>, “Cécile Fatiman was a Haitian vodoo priestess born in the 18th century. On August 1791, Fatiman presided over a ceremony at the Bois Caïman in the role of mambo together with priest Dutty Boukman. Boukman prophesied that the slaves Jean François, Biassou, and Jeannot would be leaders of a resistance movement and revolt that would free the slaves of Saint-Domingue. An animal was sacrificed, an oath was taken, and Boukman and the priestess exhorted the listeners to take revenge against their French oppressors. During the ceremony, Cécile Fatiman acted as if she were possessed by the goddess Erzulie. A week later, 1800 plantations had been destroyed and 1000 slaveholders killed. It is reported that she lived to the ripe old age of 112 years old.” <a href="https://medium.com/@iloveblackpeopleapp/c%C3%A9cile-fatiman-eca3e52da19d">https://medium.com/@iloveblackpeopleapp/cécile-fatiman-eca3e52da19d</a></p><p><strong>Marie-Jeanne Lamartiniére</strong><strong>, “</strong>Marie-Jeanne Lamartiniére won recognition for her bravery and heroics during one of the revolution's most famous battles, with much at stake. Most importantly, Marie-Jeanne's inspirational and symbolic example on the field of strife helped to unite black and mulatto fighting men in their successful war against slavery, that led to the declaration of the world's first black republic on January 1, 1804. Marie-Jeanne was a founding mother of Haiti, and to this day, the heroic legacy of Marie-Jeanne is alive and well in the hearts and minds of the citizens of the Republic of Haiti.” <a href="https://www.lulu.com/fr/shop/phillip-thomas-tucker/marie-jeanne/paperback/product-149v5vn5.html?page">https://www.lulu.com/fr/shop/phillip-thomas-tucker/marie-jeanne/paperback/product-149v5vn5.html?page</a></p><p><strong>Victoria Montou</strong><strong> “</strong><strong>Victoria Montou</strong> known as "Toya" was a fighter in Jean-Jacques Dessalines army during the Haitian Revolution. She had served as a warrior for the Empire of Dahomey in Africa before she was shipped as a slave to Haiti. She soon escaped the plantation and some report that she agreed to rescue a newborn baby and train him in battle skills she learned as a warrior in Africa. This young boy allegedly became the future leader, Dessalines.” <a href="https://guides.loc.gov/women-in-the-french-revolution/women-haitian-revolution">https://guides.loc.gov/women-in-the-french-revolution/women-haitian-revolution</a></p><p>Hopefully this smidgeon of Black Women’s history has stimulated your interest and desire to know more about our marvelous history and herstory. We live in the “information age” where information and knowledge are at our fingertips, there is no excuse for ignorance or apathy!</p><p style="text-align:center;"> -30-</p></div>BLACKWATCH fwd from CNN NEWS: Native Hawaiians blockade historic palacehttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/2055350-Topic-29012008-05-01T13:00:28.000Z2008-05-01T13:00:28.000ZBLACKWATCH - Dr. Brother Raheru Ptah Sun of Asaruhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/BLACKWATCHDrBrotherRaheruPtahSunofAsaru<div>This is s great example of direct action by our Sisters and Brothers of Color. An example of what is to come from Africans...--------------------------------------------------(CNN) -- A group of native Hawaiians occupied the grounds of the old Hawaiian monarchy's royal residence Wednesday, vowing to stay and do the business of the kingdom's government.A member of the protest group Hawaiian Kingdom Government unlocks the palace gate."It is through a greater realm than ours" that the group took this action, said Mahealani Kahau, elected leader of the group, called Hawaiian Kingdom Government. "Today and every day, we will be here to assume our role."The group is one of several in Hawaii that reject statehood and seek to return to the constitutional monarchy that effectively ended in 1893 when a group of politicians, businessmen and sugar planters -- aided by the U.S. minister to Hawaii -- overthrew the kingdom's government.The monarchist groups say the kingdom was overthrown and annexed into the United States illegally.Hawaii's office of the attorney general did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment on Wednesday's action.The staff of Iolani Palace, built in 1882 and now operated as a museum, shut down the building to visitors. The 60 or so protesters occupied the grounds, chaining the gates and stationing guards there to explain to visitors the purpose of the action.The group later reopened the gates, but remained on the grounds and the building was kept closed."It saddens my heart to have to turn away visitors," said palace staff member Cindy Ascencio, who added that although she is a native Hawaiian, she does not understand the actions of the group. Ascencio also said the group appeared peaceful and she was not concerned about security.Jose Carrion, a visitor to Hawaii from Puerto Rico, told Honolulu's KHON-TV that he was disappointed he wouldn't be able to visit the ornate palace and "learn about the culture of the Hawaiians.""We wanted to come here precisely because we thought we'd learn something about the history of Hawaii and the last queen and the monarchy," said Carrion, who said he had reservations for the visit. "But we're leaving tomorrow, so we won't get to see the palace."Carrion also said he "kind of understood" the actions of the group.Puerto Rico and Hawaii, along with Guam and the Philippines, were annexed into the United States in 1898 after the Spanish-American War. Guam and Puerto Rico remain territories of the United States. The Philippines gained independence after World War II, and Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959.Although the monarchy was not overthrown until 1893, its fate effectively was sealed six years earlier when the same group that forced the overthrow imposed a new constitution on King David Kalakaua, who was forced to sign it under threat of arms.The document dramatically reduced the authority of the monarchy and instituted voter requirements that limited voting to wealthy businessmen and Hawaiian landowners, barring 75 percent of the native Hawaiian population and all Asians.When Queen Lili'uokalani ascended the throne after the death of her brother in 1891, she began work on a new constitution that would have effectively reversed the 1887 document. With the help of John L. Stevens, the U.S. minister to Hawaii, the elite group that had changed the constitution in 1887 opposed the queen's actions.Two years later, under threat of U.S. troops, she yielded her authority, saying, "Until such time as the government of the United States shall ... undo the action of its representative and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands."The queen was later imprisoned in Iolani Palace for eight months for her participation in an attempted 1895 revolt, until she relinquished her claim to the throne in return for her release. She died in 1917 at 79.In 1993, the U.S. Congress approved, and President Bill Clinton signed, an apology to the people of the Hawaiian islands. The document "acknowledges that the overthrow of the kingdom of Hawaii occurred with the active participation of agents and citizens of the United States and further acknowledges that the native Hawaiian people never directly relinquished to the United States their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people over their national lands, either through the kingdom of Hawaii or through a plebiscite or referendum."Although it was used as a seat of government for decades after Lili'uokalani's reign, the palace fell into disrepair. When the last of the government offices moved out and into new facilities adjacent to the palace in 1969, restoration work began. It opened to the public in 1978. E-mail to a friendAll About Hawaii • Honolulu</div>