Juan Pablo Duarte fought to rename the island Santo Domingo and won. Even when Haiti continues to name the island Haiti in its constitution in spite of having signed a Border Treaty with the Dominican Republic admitting that the name of the island is Santo Domingo. People from both nations are Dominicans, although not legally yet.
This conflict about the name of the island triggered the naming of the island by the USA (non owner of it) as Hispaniola, until both nations (owners) make up their minds and agree to have the same name assigned in their respective constitution.
As stated above, if Haiti agreed to a treaty naming the island Santo Domingo, she should and must honor this treaty by changing the name of the island in her constitution. This will clear the way to have the United States of America change their decision and the name chosen by their agency.
This has not been possible due to the fact that the State denominated Dominican Republic has not chosen a name for their country yet, since its independence in 1844.
The people in the Dominican Republic are only "regionally" Dominicans (because it is a republic in the Island of Santo Domingo), while the people of Haiti will have both the regional identity as Dominicans, but mainly, their National Identity as Haitians, for they named their country Haiti.
When French speaking Dominicaines won their independence in 1804, they righteously name their country with one of names natives used to call the island; while their counterpart Spanish spoken Dominicans patriots lead by Duarte, regained the name of the Island by denominating their new independent State Dominican Republic, they didn't have a chance to put a proper (own) name to their country, since they were ousted and expatriated by Dominicans faithful to Spain, who later gave her back to the Spanish Crown. Patriots fought again, this time to free the country from Spain and this is when they came up with the name Quisqueya for their country (as the National Anthem expresses), but again, their were pushed back and repatriated by dictators and tyrants and the name was not adopted.
Now there is an attempt to recover that name and place it in the constitution of the Dominican Republic as the name of the nation and the national identification of these regional Dominicans.
It should be noticed here the difference between Regional Identity and National Identity. National Identity refers to the Identity given because the name of the country.
Regional Identity refers to the identity given because the region the country occupies.
Venezuelans are regionally Americans (or South Americans, if wanted)
Americans are regionally Americans (or North Americans, if wanted)
The island of Santo Domingo is shared by two countries:
Haitians are regionally Dominicans
(Quisqueyans?) are regionally Dominicans
That question mark on Quisqueyans is there because there are two conflicting projects to name the name of the country occupied by the State denominated Dominican Republic. (Notice that Dominican used here is an adjective, not a proper name, because if it was, then we could easily express Republic of Dominican or Republic of Dominicana, as proposed by the contra project from ours claiming that the Trinitarians wanted Quisqueya as the proper name for Dominican Republic). Haiti doesn't have to express that she is a Dominican Republic, but they are.
By clearing this confusion, the migration problem facing us now in the Dominican Republic, where Haitians are invading the land, thinking that it Haitian territory according to their constitution, a national policy can be set as follows:
Haitians wanting to become Quisqueyans will have to applied for residency or citizenship in order to live and work protected by the Constitution of the Dominican Republic of Quisqueya. Those not wanting to do this are invited to leave and those protecting those undocumented Haitians will by punished and fined by law. Haitians should be welcomed to visit, work (with permit), study with visa and then return to Haiti. That goes for Quisqueyans in Haiti too. That way we will have a brotherhood o two countries that are good neighbors helping each other. The Island of Santo Domingo will be the paradise for tourists and the Mecca for commerce in the world.
We are pushing that this dream is materialized within the next ten years. The Dominican Republic has the opportunity, the chance, to start all this by naming the country Quisqueya during the revision of her constitution.
Haiti has the opportunity to make the correction to her constitution before is formally requested by the Dominican Republic of Quisqueya.
Both Haiti and Quisqueya will immediately request the United States of America to stop using Hispaniola as the legal name of the Island of Santo Domingo. Haiti is not the name of the island; Quisqueya is not the name of the island; La Española or Hispaniola is not the name of the island; the name of the island is Santo Domingo.
Haitian or Quisqueyans are not forced to use their regional identity, since that identity is also shared with other communities such as the inhabitants of Dominica and the nuns and missionaries of the religious Order of Santo Domingo. They will be comfortable and proud to use their national identities: Haitians and Quisqueyans (as different as their language and culture).
Participate with the Quisqueya Developing Group ("Grupo Gestor Quisqueya" "GGQ"), that by the 27th of February of the year 2010 will begin its formal activities as a patriotic movement and which mainly purpose is to constitutionally give the name of Quisqueya to the country that today is denominated Dominican Republic.
Written by: lovingit, 6 Aug 2009 4:57 PM
From: United States, Delaware
Where I thinkg you are wrong in this is that "Santo Domingo" does not translate to "Dominican". These are two different terms, thefore, although the name of the island is "Santo Domingo" or "Saint Domingue" as I have even seen it on French and Haitian Maps this does not make poeple "Dominicans". Using your regional theory, Haitians and Dominicans, regionally would be Santo Domingeros, just as they could be easily called Hispaniolans, Aytianos (Haitianos), or Quisqueyans (Kiskeyans). Domincans are kown asDominicans because the nation is called Dominican Republic, which is located in the island of Santo Domingo, just like the Republic of Haiti is also located on the Island of Santo Domingo. Although I do not oppose to adding Quisqueya as part of the country name, you are wrong in your notion that Santo Domingo == Dominican.
Written by: Trujillo, 6 Aug 2009 7:34 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Quisqueya was a name used by the natives (tainos) for the WHOLE island, not just the dominican side.
From: United States, New York
And we don't have the whole island anymore so why are we trying to turn back the clock. We are Dominicans and use the term Dominican/Quisqueyano interchangeably - period.
Written by: Miacol, 7 Aug 2009 12:04 PM
From: United States, Teaneck, NJ
I am Dominican/Quisqueyano from the Domino Republic of Santo Domingo, but never call a Haitian Dominican, they are Haitian from Haiti of Santo Domingo.
Written by: oupala07 
, 7 Aug 2009 3:24 PM
From: Canada
Haitians are Spanish speaking Dominicans; the name of the island is Santo Domingo; Dominican Republic of Quisqueya; renaming the country Quisqueya.
Ha ha ha aha ha ha!! Someone must have smoked quite a bit of crack cocain to be so delusional.
Misterr Perez, I know that the tropical sun can be deadly when you stay exposed for too long under its rays. So, my advise to you and all other innocent hateros of your kind is too go to the shade and get to the Spanish and French archives before referring to the name of our beloved island. I can understand why you are so dumbed in geography, it is simply because you are repeating foolishness after the Americans who can't even identify where Vietnam and Afghanistan are located in a map.
I think you are looking for something that is really too heavy for you to carry. Why don't you take care of your "black outs", your corruption and the rampant poverty that is sending your poorest into the treacherous mona canal?
From: United States, OMNIPRESENT. El Cantinero de Jarabacoa. "Aguilucho desde Chiquitito"
no do your part first oupala07 siempre ta chupando teta! lolololol. the international community just flipped you off and you still haven't fought for haitian liberation.
Written by: tierra, 7 Aug 2009 8:08 PM
From: United States
Yeah that is very unimportant for now, we should worry about more important issues such as the economy, crime, education, infrastructure and the like..
From: United States, Brooklyn
Germany was named after GERMANICUS (a Roman General)
France was named after the FRANKS (A Germanic people)
DR should not be named Dominicana because it sounds too religious but it should also not be named after Quisqueya because it sounds too tribal... Why not uses these names of our hero's to come up with a proper name for our country.... Duarte or Bosch... I prefer Bosch since i think he has been more influencial...
Written by: lovingit, 8 Aug 2009 2:53 PM
From: United States, Delaware
CarlosFranco
???
Enough Said
P.S:
Germany's actual name, as known by Germans is "Deutschland", so you are wrong
Its known as Germany to Anglo, and Alemania to Latin world, as to why?.. I guess you have some real research to do now.
Written by: oupala07 , 8 Aug 2009 5:12 PM
From: Canada
Well my friend Carlosfrancos,
If Quisqueya looks too tribal for you, what about all those American states like, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Illinois and so on, which all bear native American names? Your problem my friend, and you will pardon my presumption, is that, like most of smaller and underdevelopped nations, we tend to reject everything that is genuine to us and to embrace what comes from the foreigner.
Why do you think that most of Dominicans and Haitians tend to see a God in the white man while the rest of us including myself, think they're just human beings that deserve no particular and glorifying status.
And if there is something that enrages some intellectuals from both sides of the island, is this self belittling of the two most ancient people in the Americas, for do not forget that your spanish ancestors were the first in the island and the Americas, while we the African negroes, that you are trying to trash now, came just 14 years later.
Written by: oupala07 , 8 Aug 2009 5:25 PM
From: Canada
Lovingit,
If we must pay attention on how a name is translated and pronounced by all the nations of this planet, can you imagine the chaos? No, what is important, it is not how the others pronounce your country name, it is how you pronounce it yourself.
As far as I am concerned, I can't careless if a foreigner names my country Heyiti, Ahiti, Aiti or whatever. The fact will remain that I know my country under the name of Haiti in French and Ayiti in Haitian Creole. And I also know that it was our ancestors who unilaterally decided to reject the old colonial name of St Domingue and to adopt the Indian ones and I mean : Haiti, Quisqueya and Bohio. If you guys can't put your act together in chosing a name for your country, we in the Western side of the island have solved this problem of yours two centuries ago.
You can decide to be whatever you want that is your problem, in fact why not keeping Hispagnola: it suits you wonderfully well.
Written by: ambioriv, 8 Aug 2009 10:31 PM
From: United States
Our founding father, Juan pablo duarte, his motto was. Haiti and dominican republic cannot be together. Our legacy is to take over the country haiti, and for them to speak panish. TReh whole island needs to be named santodomingo and that shoudl be the name of the country period. I think this was Juan Pablos duartes real strategy.
All the capitals and all the industrial cities and financial centers should be located on the east, This will allow the formerly hation western part to be the poorest and weakest just incase of civil war.
just like the noreast of the united states is the strongest and won the civil war and contains the most fiancial centers. like new york. Juan pablo duarte modeled the constitution over the United states, we should model there entire geographical strategy as well.
From: United States, Brooklyn
Am a historian LOVINIT... Look up Germanicus... How the Romans named the northern lands and then well talk... Take time in your research
From: United States, Brooklyn
Oupala07... SO IF AN AMERICAN jumps of a bridge i have to jump too... Quisqueya is tribal... From the indians who occupied the land in pre-colombian times... Unfortunately there aren't much indians left, if any in our blood line..... something that reflects our modern country and genetic makeup is more reasonable to me... I think that something about BOSCH is very representative of our present population...
From: United States, Brooklyn
Whoever Cozme Perez is, he is a fucking retard for writing this senseless arguement... WE CHOOSE THE NAME DOMINCAN... HAITIANS HAVE NEVER CALLED THEMSELVES DOMINICANS... The name dominicans came about after the "ESPANA BOBA" Period... Haiti was already free at this time and never called Themselves Dominicans...
Cozme you're arguement is full of holes buddy
Written by: Edward, 9 Aug 2009 12:20 PM
From: United States, Faux News: Unfair Imbalance
I like Quisqueya. It's shorter and sounds better. I've never liked Dominican Republic because it's too long and it's always different when translated to other languages. Another problem is that it often gets confused with Dominica. Quisqueya will be spelled Quisqueya in all languages just like Cuba, Honduras, Mexico etc. I also find it weird to say "Voy para la Republica Dominicana"...One word that's universal is much better.
Written by: wents22, 9 Aug 2009 8:03 PM
From: United States, New York City
Dominican Republic was the name choosen for the state, and it shouldn't be change. We are known as Dominicans, and not something else. We are located in the island of Santo Domingo, which doesn't translate Dominican. So Haitians will be Haitians, and Dominicans will be dominicans.
Written by: oupala07 , 9 Aug 2009 10:51 PM
From: Canada
The island of Santo Domingo!!! Ha ha ha ha!!
Now, you don't want to be Hispagnolan or Quisqueyan anymore, do you? As I already stated it, we Haitians may be poor now (we did not use to be), however, we know fully well who and what we are, for even the dumbest of our paysans will answer you swiftly when you ask him what are the names of this country. He might not include Bohio in the trinary, but he will surely tell you that they are Haiti Thomas or Quisqueya.
Don't you worry boys and gals, when we will get back on our feet and you'll find out that your economic advance on us has melted like snow on a sunny day, I am pretty sure you'll be the first to propose to us to keep the whole island name Haiti, Quisqueya and Bohio like our good and brave arrawaks and Caribes used to call it.
I wonder how the ancient Ciboneys, who were the very first occupants of this island did name it, have any idea? In fact, I am a little puzzled you haven't tried to identify yourself with them.
Written by: wents22, 9 Aug 2009 11:53 PM
From: United States, New York City
La República es y será siempre libre e independiente de todo poder extranjero.
Written by: oupala07 , 10 Aug 2009 8:00 AM
From: Canada
wents22,
Un país independente es uno que puede decir no en todo tiempo a las fuerzas extrañas y colonizadoras. ¿ Piensa que la República Dominicana puede actualmente decir no u oponerse a una decisión de los Estados Unidos de América o de España vía la Unión Europeana?
Tengo el mismo consejo para usted que el que he dado a nuestra amigo " el quemadorgeneroso ", y es despertarle, cerrar la llave de paso del gas primero y luego buscar la verdad verdadera, no la que se le presenta detrás de una pantalla de bellas palabras y promesas extravagantes que no llevan a nada, pero la que libera todas las mentiras que nuestros gobiernos y medios de comunicación nos atornillan en la conciencia.
Perdóneme si hay unas faltas, no soy un hispanohablante, he tenido que utilizar la traducción en línea, y no he tomado el tiempo para verificar si todo estaba correcto o no.
From: United States, Brooklyn
BOSCHLANDIA... That should be the new name for DR
Written by: Eriliza, 11 Aug 2009 11:24 AM
From: United States, Boston, MA
I see no point in changing a country's name after almost 200 years!!! Leave the name like it is!!!
From: United States, New York, NY
We needs Oupala's faith in country. He is so sure Haiti will surge to such prominence that the DR will beg them for ________ . We all want Haiti to get "on its feet" but seems like Oupala is expecting somersaults. THAT is faith and pride and I hope it's well placed, if not realistic.
From: United States, New York, NY
geo4u1,
By no means lose it, then all hope is gone! I believe the answer is in the diaspora.
Haitians and people of Haitian descent around the world need to step up for their country. Seems to me that things are so bad nobody wants to be the first but how long can a country subsist on handouts? Its a matter of pride why the diaspora needs to act.
Sometimes I get the sense everyone just wants out and to forget what's behind them. Am I wrong? Are there any prominent voices out there with a possibility to be an agent of long awaited change?
Written by: oupala07 , 19 Aug 2009 5:26 PM
From: Canada
Santana33
My faith in Haiti's future is one of bitter denial. It's like a soldier on a battlefield watching his brothers in arms falling one by one around him. He knows that the sun that is setting on the horizon on that same battlefield won't rise for him tommorow, but he keeps fighting because surrender, for him, is not an option.
Haiti is lost and I know it: we have too many enemies, some more powerful than the others, and the Dominican Republic is one that lies right at our gates. We are a negro nation, so we' re alone and no one, in this white dominated world, will help us in any way.
However, we are proud and resilient, and the real sons of Dessalines among us won't go down without a fight, even though we know that fight is lost without even being started.
Our Diaspora's and motherland's elite have sided with our enemies in exchange of the privilege to be in power.
Written by: oupala07 , 19 Aug 2009 5:35 PM
From: Canada
And even if they return and rebuild the country, it won't be for the benefit of the majority : In the 50's, even though Haiti was much more advanced than the way it is now, there were some places: Cinemas, Churches, Clubs in other words a lot of social places that were off limit for the common Haitian negro citizen.
When that americanized and Europeanized Diaspora will return and rebuild, it will be for showing off economically while socially, nothing will change or maybe everything the Haitian Negro has acquired lately for civil right will be history.
So, I have faith in my people, but in order for that faith to become a revolution, it would take something that would shock and shake us so violently that it would lift us past all the social barriers that presently keep us apart like a bunch of horses parked by groups in several corrals.
Written by: oupala07 , 19 Aug 2009 6:47 PM
From: Canada
geo4u1,
The only way, we Haitians will be able to save our country, is to, like the manchot penguin chicks under the antartica blizzard, flock together and tight our ranks in order to face our foe. We must start ignoring the insults and all the bad press, because as long as we are poor, weak and under developped, we will keep hearing them.
In other words, we have only ourselves to blame for our demise. I keep the faith however, because I know the value of my people, and I know that it takes only a spark to ignite the flame of desire to be something else.
In the 18th and 19th centuries we had men and women of valors to lead us on the battlefields, but in the 20th and 21th centuries, those heroes have been replaced by slave owners and traitors. And until we get rid of them or kick them out, we won't go anywhere and achieve anything.
Written by: oupala07 , 19 Aug 2009 10:07 PM
From: Canada
Lovingit,
Show me the the haitian map where you see we name the Dominican Republic Santot Domingo. My friend, those among us, who are litterate, know our geography pretty well. If the Dominicans are lost with names, we Haitians know that this islan's one is Haiti, Quisqueya and Bohio period. There is no ambiguity for us, for whatever the world may decide to name this island, we already know its name, and we don't give a damn' whether the nation from the Eastern side will decide to call it hispagnola, quisqueya, santo domingo and the rest, we do not care period, because we know who we are.
So, before writing anything that is false, do your research properly or consult people who know.
Written by: wents22, 19 Aug 2009 11:34 PM
From: United States, New York City
I think the island of Hispaniola defines the whole Island. It was baptized by Colombus in 1492 as La Española, and it was generalize as La Isla de Santo Domingo because its principal city was Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo as the name of the island has had international and national recognition, even in the Dominican constitution. When the colony of Saint Domingue gained independence, the name Haiti was choosen for the country and later the Island when they occupied the eastern side. When the Dominican Republic broke free, the Island was then known as La Isla de Santo Domingo by Dominicans. The name Haiti for the Island was too complicated and was never accepted by dominicans, and it has been ruled out by the United States and the rest of the Internatinal Community. Santo Domingo also has problems because it is associated more with the Dominican Republic and it excludes Haiti. Hispaniola is the preferred name because of its history in cartography and scientific publications.
Written by: oupala07 , 20 Aug 2009 12:01 AM
From: Canada
Wents22,
Then keep calling the island the way you want it, but for us Haitians, one thing is sure, the island we're living in is named Haiti, Quisqueya, Bohio whichever one likes. The names Canada, United States, Costarica, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Haiti, Dominicana, Cuba etc won't change the fact that the two continents and their archipelago are named, in a whole, America.
So, we Haitians do not expect the white world to acknowledge the legitimacy of the names we gave the island. We don't give a damn' whether or not they like the fact that we have reverted to the old indigenous names. We know that we are right, because no other nation has suffer and bled for this island the way we did.
From: United States
Saint-Domingue was the original name of the the Republic of Haiti. You all should know your history. The name of Saint-Domingue was changed to Haiti when Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared independence from the French in 1804.
Like the name Haiti itself, Saint-Domingue may sometimes be used to refer to all of Hispaniola, but more frequently to the western part now occupied by the Republic of Haiti, while the Spanish version Santo Domingo is often used to refer to the Dominican nation as a whole.
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Ha ha ha aha ha ha!! Someone must have smoked quite a bit of crack cocain to be so delusional.
Misterr Perez, I know that the tropical sun can be deadly when you stay exposed for too long under its rays. So, my advise to you and all other innocent hateros of your kind is too go to the shade and get to the Spanish and French archives before referring to the name of our beloved island. I can understand why you are so dumbed in geography, it is simply because you are repeating foolishness after the Americans who can't even identify where Vietnam and Afghanistan are located in a map.
I think you are looking for something that is really too heavy for you to carry. Why don't you take care of your "black outs", your corruption and the rampant poverty that is sending your poorest into the treacherous mona canal?
Yeah that is very unimportant for now, we should worry about more important issues such as the economy, crime, education, infrastructure and the like..
Germany was named after GERMANICUS (a Roman General)
France was named after the FRANKS (A Germanic people)
DR should not be named Dominicana because it sounds too religious but it should also not be named after Quisqueya because it sounds too tribal... Why not uses these names of our hero's to come up with a proper name for our country.... Duarte or Bosch... I prefer Bosch since i think he has been more influencial...
???
Enough Said
P.S:
Germany's actual name, as known by Germans is "Deutschland", so you are wrong
Its known as Germany to Anglo, and Alemania to Latin world, as to why?.. I guess you have some real research to do now.
If Quisqueya looks too tribal for you, what about all those American states like, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Illinois and so on, which all bear native American names? Your problem my friend, and you will pardon my presumption, is that, like most of smaller and underdevelopped nations, we tend to reject everything that is genuine to us and to embrace what comes from the foreigner.
Why do you think that most of Dominicans and Haitians tend to see a God in the white man while the rest of us including myself, think they're just human beings that deserve no particular and glorifying status.
And if there is something that enrages some intellectuals from both sides of the island, is this self belittling of the two most ancient people in the Americas, for do not forget that your spanish ancestors were the first in the island and the Americas, while we the African negroes, that you are trying to trash now, came just 14 years later.
If we must pay attention on how a name is translated and pronounced by all the nations of this planet, can you imagine the chaos? No, what is important, it is not how the others pronounce your country name, it is how you pronounce it yourself.
As far as I am concerned, I can't careless if a foreigner names my country Heyiti, Ahiti, Aiti or whatever. The fact will remain that I know my country under the name of Haiti in French and Ayiti in Haitian Creole. And I also know that it was our ancestors who unilaterally decided to reject the old colonial name of St Domingue and to adopt the Indian ones and I mean : Haiti, Quisqueya and Bohio. If you guys can't put your act together in chosing a name for your country, we in the Western side of the island have solved this problem of yours two centuries ago.
You can decide to be whatever you want that is your problem, in fact why not keeping Hispagnola: it suits you wonderfully well.
All the capitals and all the industrial cities and financial centers should be located on the east, This will allow the formerly hation western part to be the poorest and weakest just incase of civil war.
just like the noreast of the united states is the strongest and won the civil war and contains the most fiancial centers. like new york. Juan pablo duarte modeled the constitution over the United states, we should model there entire geographical strategy as well.
Am a historian LOVINIT... Look up Germanicus... How the Romans named the northern lands and then well talk... Take time in your research
Whoever Cozme Perez is, he is a fucking retard for writing this senseless arguement... WE CHOOSE THE NAME DOMINCAN... HAITIANS HAVE NEVER CALLED THEMSELVES DOMINICANS... The name dominicans came about after the "ESPANA BOBA" Period... Haiti was already free at this time and never called Themselves Dominicans...
Cozme you're arguement is full of holes buddy
Now, you don't want to be Hispagnolan or Quisqueyan anymore, do you? As I already stated it, we Haitians may be poor now (we did not use to be), however, we know fully well who and what we are, for even the dumbest of our paysans will answer you swiftly when you ask him what are the names of this country. He might not include Bohio in the trinary, but he will surely tell you that they are Haiti Thomas or Quisqueya.
Don't you worry boys and gals, when we will get back on our feet and you'll find out that your economic advance on us has melted like snow on a sunny day, I am pretty sure you'll be the first to propose to us to keep the whole island name Haiti, Quisqueya and Bohio like our good and brave arrawaks and Caribes used to call it.
I wonder how the ancient Ciboneys, who were the very first occupants of this island did name it, have any idea? In fact, I am a little puzzled you haven't tried to identify yourself with them.
Un país independente es uno que puede decir no en todo tiempo a las fuerzas extrañas y colonizadoras. ¿ Piensa que la República Dominicana puede actualmente decir no u oponerse a una decisión de los Estados Unidos de América o de España vía la Unión Europeana?
Tengo el mismo consejo para usted que el que he dado a nuestra amigo " el quemadorgeneroso ", y es despertarle, cerrar la llave de paso del gas primero y luego buscar la verdad verdadera, no la que se le presenta detrás de una pantalla de bellas palabras y promesas extravagantes que no llevan a nada, pero la que libera todas las mentiras que nuestros gobiernos y medios de comunicación nos atornillan en la conciencia.
Perdóneme si hay unas faltas, no soy un hispanohablante, he tenido que utilizar la traducción en línea, y no he tomado el tiempo para verificar si todo estaba correcto o no.
BOSCHLANDIA... That should be the new name for DR
By no means lose it, then all hope is gone! I believe the answer is in the diaspora.
Haitians and people of Haitian descent around the world need to step up for their country. Seems to me that things are so bad nobody wants to be the first but how long can a country subsist on handouts? Its a matter of pride why the diaspora needs to act.
Sometimes I get the sense everyone just wants out and to forget what's behind them. Am I wrong? Are there any prominent voices out there with a possibility to be an agent of long awaited change?
My faith in Haiti's future is one of bitter denial. It's like a soldier on a battlefield watching his brothers in arms falling one by one around him. He knows that the sun that is setting on the horizon on that same battlefield won't rise for him tommorow, but he keeps fighting because surrender, for him, is not an option.
Haiti is lost and I know it: we have too many enemies, some more powerful than the others, and the Dominican Republic is one that lies right at our gates. We are a negro nation, so we' re alone and no one, in this white dominated world, will help us in any way.
However, we are proud and resilient, and the real sons of Dessalines among us won't go down without a fight, even though we know that fight is lost without even being started.
Our Diaspora's and motherland's elite have sided with our enemies in exchange of the privilege to be in power.
When that americanized and Europeanized Diaspora will return and rebuild, it will be for showing off economically while socially, nothing will change or maybe everything the Haitian Negro has acquired lately for civil right will be history.
So, I have faith in my people, but in order for that faith to become a revolution, it would take something that would shock and shake us so violently that it would lift us past all the social barriers that presently keep us apart like a bunch of horses parked by groups in several corrals.
The only way, we Haitians will be able to save our country, is to, like the manchot penguin chicks under the antartica blizzard, flock together and tight our ranks in order to face our foe. We must start ignoring the insults and all the bad press, because as long as we are poor, weak and under developped, we will keep hearing them.
In other words, we have only ourselves to blame for our demise. I keep the faith however, because I know the value of my people, and I know that it takes only a spark to ignite the flame of desire to be something else.
In the 18th and 19th centuries we had men and women of valors to lead us on the battlefields, but in the 20th and 21th centuries, those heroes have been replaced by slave owners and traitors. And until we get rid of them or kick them out, we won't go anywhere and achieve anything.
Show me the the haitian map where you see we name the Dominican Republic Santot Domingo. My friend, those among us, who are litterate, know our geography pretty well. If the Dominicans are lost with names, we Haitians know that this islan's one is Haiti, Quisqueya and Bohio period. There is no ambiguity for us, for whatever the world may decide to name this island, we already know its name, and we don't give a damn' whether the nation from the Eastern side will decide to call it hispagnola, quisqueya, santo domingo and the rest, we do not care period, because we know who we are.
So, before writing anything that is false, do your research properly or consult people who know.
Then keep calling the island the way you want it, but for us Haitians, one thing is sure, the island we're living in is named Haiti, Quisqueya, Bohio whichever one likes. The names Canada, United States, Costarica, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Haiti, Dominicana, Cuba etc won't change the fact that the two continents and their archipelago are named, in a whole, America.
So, we Haitians do not expect the white world to acknowledge the legitimacy of the names we gave the island. We don't give a damn' whether or not they like the fact that we have reverted to the old indigenous names. We know that we are right, because no other nation has suffer and bled for this island the way we did.
Like the name Haiti itself, Saint-Domingue may sometimes be used to refer to all of Hispaniola, but more frequently to the western part now occupied by the Republic of Haiti, while the Spanish version Santo Domingo is often used to refer to the Dominican nation as a whole.