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Preaching hate in Uganda

2010-03-11T09:23:02-05:00

The Evangelicals are having a field day in Uganda! I didn't know how to get the video posted; but, what is happening in Uganda against gays is an abomination! Please click on the "Preaching Hate in Uganda" video..... I saw this on late night's NIGHT LINE...

http://abcnews.go.com/nightline

Wedosi

News Preval die Today

2010-03-20T20:00:28-05:00

If preval would have died or be assassinated that would have been the best news ever, that would have given Haitian a chance to build a government of consensus, Preval the last Dumb President, worst he's too inept and stupid to realize the Haitians people do not need him help resigned imbecile take the pulse.

There is a revolt boiling down soon, petit sousou gran pie will be shipped back to africa since you will fail to keep Haiti down, give Haiti a chance for once do the right thing after 20 years your time is up Monkey.

Death to Preval, que Viva Haiti, Vive Haiti, Death to Preval

It’s Necessary To Know Haitian Creole To Participate On Vodou Initiations In Haiti?

2010-03-19T19:06:21-05:00

Has everybody knows..the initiations can be made in jacmel Haiti, but for Dominicans is a little difficult to know a little of Haitian Creole, nor English, or a perfect Spanish in some cases.

For that kind of ceremonies is necessary the Haitian Creole language as default. It could be Spanish?? or other language in common.??

how Haiti helped save America

2010-03-21T07:37:47-05:00

am a little too lazy to copy and paste. here's the link:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/03/21/how_haiti_saved_america/?page=full

Haiti battles growing crime wave

2010-03-18T22:38:41-05:00

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtAQA2Ir2iU[/youtube]

Survivors of January's massive earthquake in Haiti are facing a growing tide of violent crime, especially in the tent cities that shelter the tens of thousands made homeless by the disaster.

Violent crime was a problem in Haiti even before January's earthquake, but since then Haitian officials say there has been an increase in shootings and sexual assaults.

In some neighbourhoods residents have formed special brigades to try and ensure security.

Al Jazeera's Sebastian Walker reports. (Mar 18, 2010)

Biracial self hate

2010-03-19T23:50:40-05:00

Just to let everyone here know, I am NOT trying to stereotype mixed race people...just felt that these videos were interesting

Blacks who pass for white (1 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMp20fZ6PSM&NR=1

Blacks who pass for white (2 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-MEq7idZZE&feature=related

**Videos 3-8 will be available at the bottom right

The King of Bongo Bongo Jjakomo with 40 % percent back @ Mai Tai again

2010-03-07T20:13:25-05:00

Joseph Comeau : 40% Percent & the Perfect Rythm Connection ( Dave & The king of Bongo Bongo Jjakomo ) will be back again @ Mai Tai on march 25 Th 2010 from 09:00 pm This will be a nonstop ACTION Come out come out when ever you are

40% @ Mai Tai Bar Celebrating The March BABIES!!
By:Joe Sellner Long Beach california

The WORLD BEST CITIES

2010-03-17T17:07:27-05:00

Summer is not too far away, And I hope some of you are already thinking about a nice place to go on Vacation like Iam.

Here are some the worlds best cities, these cities have low crimes , a lot of tourist attractions, and have nice infrastructures etc . I hope Port au Prince in the future will be part of these great cities

Vienna ( Austria)

Zurich ( Switzerland)

All black people leave the store now

2010-03-18T10:32:51-05:00

courtesy of yahoo..
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Black-people-must-leave-NJ-apf-1749619349.html?x=0

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- A Walmart store announcement ordering black people to leave brought chagrin and apologies Wednesday from leaders of the company, which has built a fragile trust among minority communities.

A male voice came over the public-address system Sunday evening at a store in Washington Township, in southern New Jersey, and calmly announced: "Attention, Walmart customers: All black people, leave the store now."

Shoppers in the store at the time said a manager quickly got on the public-address system and apologized for the remark. And while it was unclear whether a rogue patron or an employee was responsible for the comment, many customers expressed their anger to store management.

"I want to know why such statements are being made, because it flies in the face of what we teach our children about tolerance for all," said Sheila Ellington, who was in the store at the time with a friend. "If this was meant to be a prank, there's only one person laughing, and it's not either one of us."

Ellington, of Monroe, and her friend Patricia Covington said they plan to boycott the retailer until they're assured the issue has been addressed so it doesn't happen again.

The pair said they were stunned when they heard the announcement and initially believed they had misheard it. But once the words sank in, they grew angry.

"I depended on Walmart for all my needs, because the store has pretty much everything you could want," Covington said. "But until this issue is addressed in a way I'm comfortable with, I can't walk through those doors again."

Officials with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., based in Bentonville, Ark., said that the announcement was "unacceptable" and that they're trying to determine who made it and how it happened.

"We are just as appalled by this incident as our customers," the company said in a statement. "Whoever did this is just wrong and acted in an inappropriate manner. Clearly, this is completely unacceptable to us and to our customers."

This is not the first time the retailer has faced such problems.

There have been several past instances of black customers claiming they were treated unfairly at Walmart stores, and the company faced lawsuits alleging that women were passed over in favor of men for pay raises and promotions.

In February 2009, the retailer paid $17.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in its hiring of truck drivers.

And the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued the company in May 2009, claiming some Hispanic employees at a Sam's Club subsidiary in California were subjected to a hostile work environment. That suit alleges managers failed to stop repeated verbal harassment, including the use of derogatory words, against employees of Mexican descent.

However, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has said the company has worked hard in recent years to show it cares about diversity.

Bill Mitchell, a former Walmart employee who was shopping Wednesday at the store, said that he was saddened to hear about the announcement but that "as a black man, I've heard worse things."

As customer Sharon Osbourne, of Williamstown, left the store Wednesday, she called the announcement "appalling, stupid and sad."

Women, girls rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath

2010-03-16T16:42:53-05:00

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – When the young woman needed to use the toilet, she went out into the darkened tent camp and was attacked by three men.

"They grabbed me, put their hands over my mouth and then the three of them took turns," the slender 21-year-old said, wriggling with discomfort as she nursed her baby girl, born three days before Haiti's devastating quake.

"I am so ashamed. We're scared people will find out and shun us," said the woman, who suffers from abdominal pain and itching, likely from an infection contracted during the attack.

Women and children as young as 2, already traumatized by the loss of homes and loved ones in the Jan. 12 catastrophe, are now falling victim to rapists in the sprawling tent cities that have become home to hundreds of thousands of people.

With no lighting and no security, they are menacing places after sunset. Sexual assaults are daily occurrences in the biggest camps, aid workers say — and most attacks go unreported because of the shame, social stigma and fear of reprisals from attackers.

Rape was a big problem in Haiti even before the earthquake and frequently was used as a political weapon in times of upheaval. Both times the first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was ousted, his enemies assassinated his male supporters and raped their wives and daughters.

But the quake that killed an estimated 200,000 people has made women and girls ever more vulnerable. They have lost their homes and are forced to sleep in flimsy tents or tarp-covered lean-tos. They've lost male protection with the deaths of husbands, brothers and sons. And they are living in close quarters with strangers.

At the camp on Monday where the young mother was gang-raped, a woman in shorts tried to bathe discreetly. Stripped to her waist, she faced her blue tarp tent, her back to the rows of other shelters.

Nearby, a teenage girl squatted behind a pile of garbage, trying to avoid the stench and clouds of flies around tarp-covered latrines that provide the only privacy, but also are places where women are attacked.

In this camp, some 47,000 people live crowded into what used to be a sports ground in a neighborhood that always has been dangerous. Residents include a dozen escaped prisoners, among them a man accused of a notorious murder, according to Fritznel Pierre, a human rights advocate who lives at the camp.

"But nobody says anything because they're scared, scared of the criminals and scared of the police," he said.

Pierre has documented three other gang rapes in the camp, including of a 17-year-old who says she was a virgin before six men attacked her and raped her repeatedly.

"I really worry about the teenager because she has no one to look out for her. She says she sees her attackers but is afraid to report them because she would then have to leave the camp and she has nowhere to go," Pierre said.

Investigators for Human Rights Watch reported the first three gang rapes to U.N. officials. Then, two weeks later, on Feb. 27, the 21-year-old mother was gang-raped.

Only a week later did U.N. police officers begin patrolling.

"For me it seems completely bizarre that for this one camp that everyone knows is unsafe, it's taken them three weeks to get a patrol going," said Liesl Gerntholtz, executive director of the agency's women's rights division. "It's unrealistic to expect patrols in camps all the time, but I think they can identify hotspots and provide security to those spots."

Pierre complained that the U.N. patrols are ineffective. "They only drive their cars down the one road that covers only a small portion of the camp. They never get out of their cars," he said.

In the hilltop suburb of Petionville, where plush mansions look out over slums on hillsides and in ravines, a 7-year-old rape victim was being treated Monday in the hospital of a tent camp set up on a golf course. Another child, a 2-year-old, had been raped in the same camp two weeks earlier.

The toddler is taking antibiotics for a gonorrhea infection of the mouth, according to Alison Thompson, who is the volunteer medical coordinator for a Haitian relief group created by Sean Penn. She helped treat both children.

"Women aren't being protected," Thompson said. "So when the lights go down is when the rapes increase, and it's happening daily in all the camps in Port-au-Prince."

Besides sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, victims face possible HIV infection. Haiti has the highest infection rate for the virus that causes AIDS in the Western hemisphere, with one in 50 people infected.

Among the many rape victims is an 18-year-old girl who lost her parents, grandmother, a sister and three cousins to the quake. She was roaming the streets distraught when a man approached her, promising her his wife would look after her, she said.

The middle-aged man took her to a house, then left and came back with two men. The three raped her repeatedly until she managed to escape.