Day 17- Sun. 27/9/15- It is 4:57 in the morning and just got
through reading the speech of Dr. Martin Luther King that the Pope spoke of
while he was in Harlem New York a couple days ago. The Pope was not far from
where Dr. Martin Luther King was attacked on September 20th 1963 and came close
to joining hands with physical death.
We had the chance to look at an image that caught my
attention this morning. Below the image are the following words “I met with
Malcolm X in Washington but circumstances didn’t enable me to talk with him for
more than a minute”. The image of Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X joining
hands in March 1964 is symbolic for today.
The leaders of today that are joining hands with each other
are symbolic. From our point of view it symbolizes the past joining hands with
the present. Fifty years has gone by for
us to be at this point and time in history. But before we continue, we the
Garifuna People of Guatemala would like to provoke the United States Embassy to
verify some information for us. We would like to know, if Dr. Martin Luther
King ever visited Puerto Barrios Izabal at Hotel Del Norte in Guatemala.
When the U. S. Ambassador Todd Robinson visited Labuga on
the 30th April 2015 we had two things in mind, one was to join hands with him
and the other was to ask if he knew about the rumor and to verify if it was
true that Dr. Martin Luther King visited Puerto Barrios and stayed at the Hotel
Del Norte.
On the other hand we have a dream that someday the Garifuna
People of Guatemala can call Labuga their home. Today we cannot call Labuga our
home because the Guatemalan governments of the past and present have kept us
invisible to the world. In this case we
would like to join hand with the future government, so we can make our dream a
reality.
When the Garifuna People of Guatemala were asked five years
ago by a branch of the United Nations about what is our priority as a People in
Guatemala? We have said in many occasions that we need a political instrument
that can give us the power to make decisions.
On the 17th September 2015 Beluba and a branch of the United
Nation in Guatemala joined hands for it to be a reality in the future.
Au-le
Lúbara Huya
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