Will Haiti EVER have the testicular fortitude to help its people. Haitians continue to discriminate against the poor, abuse the poor, mistreat the poor, and EXPORT the poor to the U.S., Canada, the Carribbean islands, and ESPECIALLY the neighboring Dominican Republic. Haiti, instead of trying to find a solution for the poor by providing JOBS, social programs, and education, has instead turned the blind eye to the overwhelmingly POOR majority of its citizens. It's sad, frustrating, and sickening that Haitians could be so cruel to one another. Haitian authorities prefer for there people to die, starve, and leave rather than help them live a productive and healthy life. They are not held accountable for their actions and want the world to solve there problems by taking in there MAJORITY poor and unskilled citizens.
To the hated Dominican Republic is were most Haitians illegally migrate to look for better copportunities. Yes, the DR is richer, fertile, and more stable than Haiti but it's not a first world country. It's a country in a development phase. A country that is starting to provide opportunities for its citizens, a country with a vision for the future, a country that is progressing, and modernizing at a great rate. A poor country that is fighting for its people and its future. DR and Haiti are night and day, in terms of living standards, opportunities, etc. I'm not painting DR as a utopian society or as a first world nation but compare to Haiti it sure is developed, stable, and rich.
With the terrible conditions in Haiti that includes a UN occupation, high corruption, low employment, starvation, desertification, a powerless dispora, discrimination for the poor, outdated and over-protective laws that limit foreign investments, I ask, What is Haiti doing to fix itself? Is exporting its poor the answer? (isn't that virtually the whole country at 80% of the population?), Will this country EVER change and take responsibility for its people? Will Haiti EVER limit births to stem the huge over-population in Haiti? What is Haiti's plan for a brighter future?? I ask, where are the brave and great Haitians that love there country and want to see it produce? Where are the Haitian patriots that eat, breathe, sleep, dream, and are planning for a better Haiti? What are you doing to make it better?
I call on all Haitians, to put aside ineffective, counter-productive, crippling, and blinding sense of pride. Realize that the country urgently needs YOU to help it recover. No one loves Haiti more than Haitians. The moment is now and the movement to rectify Haiti starts with YOU. Acknowledge the problems, believe, plan, coordinate, and act for a better future. You have the power to develop, modernize, dignify, praise, glorify, and bring Haiti to MODERN day greatness. Once you are committed to pick your COUNTRY up, people will work with you to develop, modernize, beautify, and rise Haiti to promenience. It starts with you Haitians. You have the ability to improve your country. It starts with you and ONLY you, HAITIANS.
[ Edited: 29 November 2008 05:16 PM by El Mayimbe ]
[Haitian children walk 130 kilometers in search of future in the Dominican Republic (Translated text)
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SANTIAGO. - Four Haitian children around 9 and 13 years old arrived Wednesday at the Dominican city of Santiago, after crossing about 130 kilometers, the majority on foot, from the border province of Dajabón, in DR, in search of a future better.
The four minors had been repatriated along with 38 other compatriots twenty days ago by the Dominican authorities but they decided to return.
Tired but smiling, the minors relayed to Efe News source that the odyssey started at the in the Haitian city of Juana Méndez, about 600 meters of Dajabón, and their experiences in the passage that unites this last city with Santiago.
Pirolín Robert Pierre, 12 years old, the most astute of the group, said that twenty days ago the Dominican authorities in Santiago repatriated seven minors from their country along with a group of adult undocumented people. Of the seven minors, four disappeared when arriving at Haitian territory, but he and another three kids spent the night roaming around in Juana Méndez. Pierre added that he and their three friends took refuge in a park of which they were evacuated by the Police.
" They said to us (the police) that we look for a way to go to the Dominican Republic because there (in Juana Méndez) they did not want to have us because there are too many problems to continue sheltering strange people that cause trouble and that the better thing to do is leave to the Dominican Republic" , Pierre narrated.
In an understandable Spanish, the minor relayed that a person in Juana Méndez knew of a friend that belonged to a humanitarian organization in Dajabon, DR that would be able to help them out once they arrived in the Dominican Republic. This person than gave him 85 gourdes (1.6 Euros) so that they cross to Dominican territory.
The children took advantage of a day at the market in the Dominican-Haitian border so they were able to cross to Dajabón and arrived at a house where they would meet a group of people that would arrange a trip to Santiago.
Nevertheless, the organizers of the trip left them because they did not have money to pay.
At that moment the journey to Santiago began on foot for the minors. Along the way, they would people who were able to help via a ride " empujón" (a ride), according to what Pierrre declared to Efe News.
The minor claimed to be an orphan, whose mother does rnot know her father and who months ago lost the aunt with whom he lived in the northern Haitian locality of Gonaives due to the floods.
His companion Riserdi Comelé, of 10 years, said to Efe that he walked mostly on foot and in other occasions by highways.
According to them they both narrated, in the long passage they requested and they received water and food from people at there homes and only two people requested them to work in exchange for food and a minimum amount of money.
" They do not want to us there (in Haiti). Whenever Migration (Dominican) takes hold of us and sends and us to Haiti, many people in Haiti mistreat, abuse, and call the Police accusing us of delinquents. Then the police come and arrest us for causing trouble. We don't cause trouble., Pierre lamented.
He explained that few relatives whom he has in Haiti, never want receive him in there home which is the reason why whenever he is repatriated by the Dominican authorities to Juana Mendez, humanitarian activists in the Dominican Republic look for ways to have him return to the Dominican Republic.
" Nine months ago I was repatriated. I arrived at Juana Méndez and on the following day I crossed to Dajabón to sell in the market and I gained 200 pesos (about 4 Euros) and so I managed to go home to my families home at Fort Liberté (northeast Haiti), but my mother when seeing me rejected me " immediately" said , Joncito Oguí, the 15 year old.
It added that " jamás"(NEVER) will I allow the Dominican authorities to catch me because my future is not in Haiti, where it affirmed that " There they humiliate, mistreat and it is discriminate against the poor people, who are mayority".
In the Dominican Republic, nongovernmental, religious, humanitarian organization, and human rights activists are worried about the increased trafficking of Haitian children towards the Dominican Republic.
[ Edited: 29 November 2008 12:12 AM by El Mayimbe ]
.. but you know some folks might chew you out.. on here.. lol lol..
BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID TO HEAR THE TRUTH! BUT THE TRUTH REMAINS THE TRUTH.
NO! HAITI WILL NEVER IMPROVE! AT LEAST UNTIL THE MAJORITY UNDERSTANDS THE NECESSITY TO THINK ABOUT THE COUNTRY INSTEAD OF THEIR POCKETS.
If Haiti does not improve in 10 years, Dominicans should invade and claim the whole island as Dominican territory. Haitians could be granted Dominican citizenship and a process of Dominicanization can help us improve relation between Dominicans and Future Dominicans (former Haitians). Haiti as a nation is simply not working. Let's face it they would be better off by joining us in DR. I could imagine whole island united under the Dominican flag and market. This is doable and I hope Dominicans stop being so weak and realize that the future of island resides in imperial designs, of course, control by us...Haitian will get the benefit of a less chaotic state and a more reliable food supply. I know poor Haitian, the majority will support us, only the middle class and the wealthy my oppose such a union. The wealthy are the only ones to lose something...Let's start discussing the plan. Those Haitians who join us now, will be appointed to places of power after the invasion. We need a fifth column. Who is going to support my plans? Any volunteers?
If Haiti does not improve in 10 years, Dominicans should invade and claim the whole island as Dominican territory. Haitians could be granted Dominican citizenship and a process of Dominicanization can help us improve relation between Dominicans and Future Dominicans (former Haitians). Haiti as a nation is simply not working. Let's face it they would be better off by joining us in DR. I could imagine whole island united under the Dominican flag and market. This is doable and I hope Dominicans stop being so weak and realize that the future of island resides in imperial designs, of course, control by us...Haitian will get the benefit of a less chaotic state and a more reliable food supply. I know poor Haitian, the majority will support us, only the middle class and the wealthy my oppose such a union. The wealthy are the only ones to lose something...Let's start discussing the plan. Those Haitians who join us now, will be appointed to places of power after the invasion. We need a fifth column. Who is going to support my plans? Any volunteers?
If Haiti does not improve in 10 years, Dominicans should invade and claim the whole island as Dominican territory. Haitians could be granted Dominican citizenship and a process of Dominicanization can help us improve relation between Dominicans and Future Dominicans (former Haitians). Haiti as a nation is simply not working. Let's face it they would be better off by joining us in DR. I could imagine whole island united under the Dominican flag and market. This is doable and I hope Dominicans stop being so weak and realize that the future of island resides in imperial designs, of course, control by us...Haitian will get the benefit of a less chaotic state and a more reliable food supply. I know poor Haitian, the majority will support us, only the middle class and the wealthy my oppose such a union. The wealthy are the only ones to lose something...Let's start discussing the plan. Those Haitians who join us now, will be appointed to places of power after the invasion. We need a fifth column. Who is going to support my plans? Any volunteers?
Now you are talking shit! And I should regret I took you a bit seriously on your initial post. You don't have the capacity to invade Haiti and make one country of the island. Although Haiti is not doing well, the inverse is more possible like we Haitians did in 1822! Your country has less problems than Haiti, but still you are a poor, corrupted and underdeveloped country. What kind of pretention is growing in your head that makes you feel you can invade Haiti?
If Haiti does not improve in 10 years, Dominicans should invade and claim the whole island as Dominican territory. Haitians could be granted Dominican citizenship and a process of Dominicanization can help us improve relation between Dominicans and Future Dominicans (former Haitians). Haiti as a nation is simply not working. Let's face it they would be better off by joining us in DR. I could imagine whole island united under the Dominican flag and market. This is doable and I hope Dominicans stop being so weak and realize that the future of island resides in imperial designs, of course, control by us...Haitian will get the benefit of a less chaotic state and a more reliable food supply. I know poor Haitian, the majority will support us, only the middle class and the wealthy my oppose such a union. The wealthy are the only ones to lose something...Let's start discussing the plan. Those Haitians who join us now, will be appointed to places of power after the invasion. We need a fifth column. Who is going to support my plans? Any volunteers?
Now you are talking shit! And I should regret I took you a bit seriously on your initial post. You don't have the capacity to invade Haiti and make one country of the island. Although Haiti is not doing well, the inverse is more possible like we Haitians did in 1822! Your country has less problems than Haiti, but still you are a poor, corrupted and underdeveloped country. What kind of pretention is growing in your head that makes you feel you can invade Haiti?
Typical middle class or Haitian diaspora response. I guess to you Haiti is a symbol of identity, a land to gives you a sense of being; to poor Haitians, Haiti is a reality that the suffer on a day-to-day basis. How easy some of you have it.... Then the lack of sense of humor. Have a little imagination. Besides, didn't the Haitian founding founders dream of a united island? Let's have it, under the Dominican flag, of course. Dominicans are years apart from Haiti, we are the lesser of the two evils of Quisqueya (Kiskeya).
Will Haiti EVER have the testicular fortitude to help its people. ... Will Haiti EVER limit births to stem the huge over-population in Haiti?
As long as you confuse competence with masculinity, no. As long as you bash Haitian women for "having too many children" instead of understanding WHY that is the most intelligent thing they can do under the circumstances, no.
When circumstances change and women have access to wealth-generating activities, education, and genuine reproductive choice, then yes.
