Yes, you have... Vive of course the Caribbean free one...
A pious wish will say some, of the premonition which knows...
This being, I paraphrase a famous speech.
Replaçons us in the context...
July 25, 1967, the Head of the French State on an official journey to Canada, is of passage to Quebec, Canadian province.
Top of the balcony of the Town hall of Montreal (capital of Quebec), pushed by a crowd is delirious about it it launches, celebrates it...:
"Lives free Quebec"
The separatists had just received in 10 seconds, the green light allowing them to start a long process which will have to lead them to the independence of Quebec.
Following this declaration, premeditated or not, the official voyage was stopped and due...
We are out of Canadian ground, a sovereign country, with the title of which the Official Host must of the protocolar regards, and minimum of respect, on behalf of the Head of State of a country, very fastidious on the attributes of its sovereignty...
You imagine one moment the diplomatic fate which had been reserved to a Head of Chinese State foreign...... cuban... Soviet... for example... launching balcony of the Town hall of Low-Ground or Fort of France.
"Lives the free Guadeloupe "
"Lives free Martinique "
... countries which I you recall it are distant of more than 8000 kilometers of Europe that each one includes/understands the dimension of allusion...
By writing these words, I am seized by an intense emotion.
Yes, this day of July 25, 1967, was for me very dark.
Because, three months before, out of ground caribéenne and more precisely in Pointe with Clown (Guadeloupe) more than 100 workers Inhabitant of Guadeloupe of the building were loosely assassinated by mobile guards... of the women and men, who without particular political claim, were descended in the street to claim better life and working conditions, by decent salaries.
... but out of colonial ground, "Mister", one does not make a district vis-a-vis with negros were says one French, of aucuns will say entirely separately.
Into Caribbean, a system is set up, leading the immense majority of my compatriots, to have the short memory, too short even, with my taste.
Thus, how much young Inhabitants of Guadeloupe, young people, born with the country they remember these dark moments of the year 1967, a drama with the title of which, to lepouvoir colonial had seized the occasion to decapitate our incipient nationalist movements, organized around the Gong with the Guadeloupe andthe A.G.T.C.G. in France, with soon thus, in the platform of the History.
More than 22 years after, I remembered at the time of a certain referendum.
Indeed, last 30 October, the inhabitants of the Canadian province of Quebec, were authorized to decide by way of referendum on the political, economic and cultural future of this territory, into clear its independence.
One knows the result of it...
All the listeners know my major thought on the right of the people to have themselves impossible to circumvent in my eyes, and since the Inhabitants of Quebec are recognized in the attributes of people, let us take in act, and wish their good wind, for the future.
But this referendum of October 30 calls more than one observation...
First of all, Quebec forms integral part of Canada, a Sovereign state.
Under these conditions the federal government of Ottawa was founded to be opposed to the separatist claims of the Inhabitants of Quebec including by the weapons.
It is what, in his time, one did not hesitate to practise in Indo-China, in Algeria, in Kanaky and perhaps a day into Caribbean as many country as I know, very distant geographically from the European Continent.
Better even, Ottawa, accepted that the only Inhabitants of Quebec, are brought to decide by vote, on the fate of the province to the risk, in the event of victory of - yes - to make fly in glare, all the base of the Canadian Company.
Really in this business, Canada gave to the World, a beautiful lesson of tolerance, and democracy, with the title of which should be inspired all these nations having the territory by other people, in virtue in particular of their simplistic, but effective of the" republic one and indivisible" principle...
In the second place, the observers will have raised the ambiguous position of the French government energy of supports discrete with the Québécois separatist cause, while passing by the diplomatic reserve in comparison with the Canadian State on the one hand, and the passion of the French media in general, for the victory of "yes"with the referendum, on the other hand.
With the ones and the others which you did of the duty of reserve with respect to friendly country oneself saying.
Which will be your position tomorrow, vis-a-vis with a powerful independence movement caribéen concerning precisely the people of Martinique and Guadeloupe, always placed under supervision.
Another question however...
How it is made that independence is acceptable and even desired for white Quebec, whereas, for this part of Caribbean, black, independence is unacceptable.
Serious question in truth with the title of which the History will have to if possible bring a response in conformity with the human right and especially of the people to have themselves.
While waiting for my part, the answer is simple, and no one will not be astonished...
"... the Caribbean free one Lives..."