He flew with Congresswoman Maxine Waters to the Central African Republic, where Aristide had been dumped by US special forces, to intervene on his behalf.
His own security detachment was taken as well and put in a separate compartment of the plane…The president was kept with his wife with the soldiers with the shades of the plane down…The president asked me to tell the world that it is a coup, that they have been kidnapped.” “ called me on a cell phone that was slipped to him by someone…The soldiers came into the house…They were taken at gunpoint to the airport and put on a plane. marines and the US ambassador to Haiti, Luis Moreno, went to Aristide’s house and forced him and family members onto an unmarked plane that then flew them out of the country. Perhaps the most enduring memories of Robinson’s steadfast support for Haiti and Haitian people come with the phone call to the Democracy Now, in the early hours of March 1, 2004, after U.S. After Aristide’s first overthrow–after only seven months in office–by a US-backed coup d’etat, Robinson waged a 27-day hunger strike to both force the reinstatement of Aristide and to protest racist US policies against Haitian migrants. He supported Haiti’s reassertion of sovereignty and democracy with the 1990 election of Jean Bertrand Aristide. policy as it affects Africa and the African diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America.”įor some of us, what we remember most about Robinson is his enduring support of Haiti and Haitian people. It took as a point of departure the belief that the freedom of African Americans is bound up with the “emancipation of all African people.” As such, TransAfrica's mission was to serve as a “major research, education and organizing institution for the African-American community, offering constructive analysis concerning U.S. Once one of the largest African American human rights and social justice organizations, TransAfrica was founded on a vision where Africans and people of African descent are equal participants in the global world order. Robinson became a household name after the organization he founded in 1977, TransAfrica, spearheaded public protests against South African apartheid in front of the South African embassies in the early 1980s, helping to give voice to the international anti-apartheid movement.
In his many obituaries, he will be remembered as a “human rights advocate, author, and law professor,” as well as “founder of TransAfrica,” and author of The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks. On March 24, 2023, Randall Robinson died at the age of 81. Remembering Randall Robinson: Black internationalist, anti-imperialist, and friend of Haiti.
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