Lethal Weapon

Toussaint L’Ouverture…ok some of you all are probably saying who? Not surprising if you don’t know because that’s not common knowledge. It’s also not common knowledge that Danny Glover is doing/has done a film on the man who freed Haiti. The problem, his film is having a hard time seeing the light of day. Are you surprised because I’m shocked! Everybody would rush to support a movie that being funded by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. People would line up to see a movie about a black revolutionary leader who stood up to European oppression, hollywood is salivating to support this, this is going to be an Academy award winning picture just like ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘Malcolm X’. Oh! Wait they didn’t win Oscars.

I had to let you all know about this, I had a hard time finding info about this. A movie starring Angela Bassett and Don Cheadle and I saw more about Carlos Santana’s song ‘Toussaint L’Ouverture(which I didn’t know existed) when I googled this topic. Props to President Hugo Chavez for supporting this, The Haitain government helped Venezuela in it’s struggle for independence shortly after their long and hard fought rebellion. It’s sad that many people don’t know about L’Ouverture or the Haitain struggle for independence. That one event had a huge impact on the world and shaped the history of several nations especially our own.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass