LETTER TO PRESIDENT ARISTIDE

Montreal, February 7, 1991

Rev. Father Jean Bertrand Aristide
President of the Republic of Haiti
National Palace
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Mr. President:

The whole world has its eyes on you, on Haiti and its people.

Everyone expects you and your legitimate, democratically elected government to see to it that something happen in Haiti.

In March 1983, one of humanity’s most famous spokesmen, Pope John Paul II, came to our country and loudly proclaimed what each and every one of us had been whispering: “Something must change here.”

Today, more than ever, all the people of Haiti stands up, longing for something and working to make something happen.

And, beloved Haiti, History (which from now on rests in thy hands) tells thee: “It is now time to let people speak to thee of love.” Go thou, Haiti, go ahead and show us thy true countenance in a positive light. It is up to everyone to play his or her part in order to let thee regain thy mark of excellence. With this letter, I am communicating with Your Excellency, Mr. President, and with Our Excellency — We, the people.

You offer this country what it takes to be a “country”. Yes, let us say “something like a great people”.

Go thou, Haiti, go ahead, following in the footsteps of thy Prophet, who has now become thy statesman.

With this in mind, Mr. President, to whomelse could I entrust this letter sent to his Holiness Pope John Paul II when heset foot on Haitian soil for the first time, as well as its acknowledgment by the Vatican?

That letter to Pope John Paul II is intended to draw attention to the problem posed by anti-Black discrimination and its negative repercussions on the advancement of scientific progress in the West, and more precisely in the realm of optics.

In the Western world, according to Newton’s widely accepted theory, white is considered to be the synthesis of all colors. Actually, the opposite is true. White constitutes the analysis or “visible” decoding of light or color, whereas black is its synthesis or “invisible” composition.

In other words, darkness or blackness and, we might add, “Black Holes” (a scientific misnomer designating invisible stars or “Black Suns”) are a source of energy and light.

That basic raw material of light energy culminates, in its most radiant form, in the neutralization of all the colors of the spectrumin the form of so-called “white light”.

Therefore “absolute blackness”, the absorption of all the colors, is a divisible component of light. Needless to say, Newton’s theory gives only a partial interpretation of the notion of light, by excluding black. Our contribution aims at demonstrating that the black color is not only an integral part of the color process, but its true synthesis. Light is therefore shown to be a divisible whole comprising an intensity or color scale in which black is the invisible or “absorbed” form of the energy in question.

Allow me, Mr.President, in order to support my statement concerning Black Holes and radiation, to pose a question asked by Hubert Reeves, doctor of nuclear astrophysics and scientific consultant to NASA:

What would have become of the sun, if it were plunged into a high temperature radiance like the one that existed at the beginning of the universe? [our translation]

Instead of emitting light, it would absorb it and, in the end, it would be completely reabsorbed into the cosmic fluid.

The cosmic fluid, your Excellency, is what, due to an “optical mistake”, is called “darkness” or the “blackness of space”. We are talking about the electromagnetic flux, that immeasurable ocean in which the planets and stars are bathed, like the sea which links all the continents together. Darkness is thus “the sea of space”.

What would have happened if, instead of an ordinary star like the “White Sun”, a Black Hole or “Black Sun” were injected into that primordial radiation?

According to Einsteinian physics, a Black Hole is a place where gravity is so formidably intense that nothing can escape it, not even visible light. Such a hole should suck in and absorb radiation and increase its own mass: E=MC², always.

But after Einstein came Bohr, Heisenberg, and Quantum Physics; from then on, nothing was the same as before.

The Einsteinian version of the Black Hole is equivalent to a statement that the matter inside the Black Hole is definitely there to stay, in that volume of space. Let us quote Hubert Reeves: “Such an absolute statement is thus contrary to the “quantum spirit”, affirming that nothing is definitely localized in one place. There is always a probability of escape. If the enclosing wall is too high, a tunnel will be dug; if the prisoners are patient, they will escape. One has only to wait.” [our translation]

According to that principle, Black Holes “evaporate”. Matter constantly escapes as radiation. Black Holes “shine”! Their surfaces behave like those of any body heated to a certain temperature and that radiation endlessly feeds that marvelous “cosmic fluid” which, wrongly and in bad faith, people keep calling “darkness”.

Nigra sum “sed” formosa. Yes, but should we not say instead, I am black “and” comely? Darkness, which is both source and vehicle of light, does not have to defend itself for being the beautiful and infinitely discreet raw material of the universe. Darkness is the mother of the universe.

Also, beautiful and discreet art thou, Haiti. Discreet, yes, but never outshone! Just like the Black Virgin who inspires and sheds her love on thee from the hilltop and even beyond Cité Soleil (Sun City).

Our purpose was to offer a more constructive approach aiming at correcting the abusive traditional, so-called scientific, theories of optics. That is why, Your Excellency, we wrote to that authentic witness to the signs of this age, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, the prophet of the new era.

Congratulations, Your Excellency, and congratulations to Our Excellency, the people, for having made it possible for this day to mark the beginning of our “new independence”.

Lucien Bonnet