The Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress

The Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress, sitting in Jamaica and with an official office in Martinique declared as an association, wants to share his opinion with respect to the social movements of protest started in Martinique as in Guadeloupe.

It goes without saying that the claims raised are legitimate. Indeed, no one can dispute the high cost of living in Martinique. Comparison of the rates charged in Martinique than in France, or even better than those prevailing in the countries adjoining us, leaves no doubt: we are victims of an unjust economic system. This system is even more despicable than the cost of living, we must add the extreme precariousness in which a significant portion of people are forced to live (CDD, low wages, given the high cost of living, etc.)..

We can only share the people's anger against a system that refuses to die atavistic. Indeed, as pointed out the documentary "the last masters in Martinique" broadcast on Canal +, the colonial pact is still in force. Neither the abolition of slavery, nor departmentalization, decentralization have not been able to undermine it.

Therefore, given the resilience of the system, so you have much more than reforms that would change the modality of the dominance of our oppressors. For, as the claims raised by the Committee on February 5 by the Committee LKP are not likely to end the reign of "free riders". Raise wages or lower prices do not change the economic structure: the buyers are the same and sellers will not have changed the disposition of their hearts. Why get more money if it is to donate as soon won the same people who abuse our economic weakness?

The only solution is the creation of a real alternative to the monopoly of a few families and corporations in Europe (we call this békés both the French and other Europeans). We can not we just wait for the manna is given us by God white capitalist selfishness, we must now create a fairer system. If each of us sacrificed a few dollars for the establishment of businesses that will drive us, we would not need to expect them any altruistic gesture, which we know they can not. In short, if we were able to come together to express our ras-le-bol, we should also make to support our own affairs.

However, we do not call the people to naivety. Because if we look closer, there is little future in Martinique for us, Black men and black women. The island is already overcrowded and has no natural wealth, if not the people who live there. On the other hand, France is in no way ready to sever colonial ties through which it holds captive Martinique. As long as we live in this country, we are the peons and serfs of an unjust colonial system. Therefore it is for us only one real solution: Freedom, Redemption, Repatriation International.

As Africans in the Diaspora to Africa is that we must turn our eyes. We support the repatriation of all the children of slaves to their true home. We should devote our energies to building a strong Africa economically, politically, financially and even militarily if necessary. For it is not on the scale of the small Martinique that we can solve the problem of colonial and imperial domination of the Western states. Behind this oppression is the shameful face of racism that is hidden. Only a strong Africa will require the white world respect for blacks anywhere in the world. Therefore demand that are available to us means that we can regain our motherland and the tools for the redemption of Africa.

Our frustration and our anger we were united. Let's put this unit in the service of rebuilding a strong black nation. Take advantage of circumstances that we face to restore the fundamental values ​​of solidarity, brotherly love, sobriety. Also find our love for God, for in Jah Rastafari we are all one. God is love, so all we love!