ProfessorD.us - The Dope Poet Society - Freedom in Haiti lyrics

Let me tell you ‘bout Haiti in a way you never heard Engaging against those raping the world Take in every word (word!) maybe you heard ‘Bout the case we should all be greatly disturbed The history of Haiti is a world treasure And should be celebrated everywhere as the first ever Slave revolt on a scale so great They turned a colony to an independent state But instead of straight applauding n exalting They're robbing and mauling and all this dates Back to when France had the nerve to charge The “ex-slaves” for the loss of the colony cost And no apologies for all of these faults Root cause of the violence and the poverty's not Internal conflicts as we're taught But this sickness is brought by the outside onslaught Telling you the trouble is due to bad governance True dat, but it's never discussed, too bad Can't discover or cover it in the news that Who gives the dictators power? They do that Canada US France and the UK Back dictators and they all think its okay Long as they get money get paid Poor people stay hungry or get slayed But Haitians won't take it and neither should Canadians Storming the streets and inform the elites That their won't be no peace till we all get a piece War with police till the poor meet their needs Till the starving all eat and the illiterate read And everybody benefits against devilish greed And when Aristide was taken you Could smell it in the air again the stench of an amerikkkan coup! Chorus: Poor people must be free Fighting for Freedom in Haiti We don't need no lies no hypocrisy We will control our destiny (repeat) Democracy prevailed and Aristide won In 1990 but in 91 The US backed the coup and military rule of Raul Cedras But the sh** wasn't cool He was too cruel even for the u- -nited snakes so they came with a new Smiling face Bill Clinton was Like “let me help a brother out… Aristide I'll make you the President again my friend All you gotta do is sell your country out” But a real leader couldn't be pushed around So they had to mush him George bush him down In two Thousand and four Bush sent troops Right down to the door Kidnapped the president and Lied to the world depriving the poor of The authority they're rightfully rioting for With friends like these who needs enemies guns When UN's k**ing poor people in the slums Unarmed women and children slaughtered This is what they call restoring order Canuks think their government is coming with peace keeping Keep reading the papers they convey to ya this feeling But the sad facts of the matter are Canada acts as a vampiya Corporate interest and foreign investment Morbidly profit off war and oppression We shouldn't just cancel the debt its crazy Reverse the debt and pay it back to Haiti In 06 Préval prevailed and it's evident They're already trying to discredit the president But ‘round the world we shout out daily Canada, US, France out of Haiti! (Chorus) Speech by Patrick Elie