The other day I was inside an elavator in a building in Harlem New York, and there was another guy inside the elavator too , he was a middle age black guy.
He turn back and look at me and said " I hate when black people are acting white ".
Inside of me I asked myself why he's looking at me and said that. Is it because how I dress ( I like to dress in a fashionable way). So eventhough a lot of things have changed there are still some black americans who are stock in the past etc .
I don't know if anyone of you here, had similar experiences etc.
During the 2011 National Haitian American Forum Author Lahiny Pierre explains that the Haitian community can no longer consider itself different from the other black folks in America. "Those differences are hurting our community" said Lahiny. " we must link up"
Who wants to start the "linking" of the "blackies" movement?
Even though some of you take her as a joke, and say things about her, but there are alot of thruths to what she's saying. and Iam sure a lot of you here do relate to what she's saying.
Wow, I actually interviewed Lahiny Pierre for HaitiXchange several months ago. Unfortunately, I never got the chance to edit and post the video.She's definitely an int resting individual. I have to look for that footage, edit it, and get it up here as quickly as possible!!!
Linking of the "blackies": Not exactly what Lahiny Pierre was hoping for...
Haitian-American Norton Bonaparte Mixed in Racially Charged Murder Case
SANFORD, USA (defend.ht) - Haitian-American Norton Bonaparte Jr has found himself in the middle of a racially charged killing of an unarmed Central Florida teenager walking home in a gated neighborhood.
The story of 17-year old Trayvon Martin landed on Bonaparte, the City Manager of Sanford, during the NBA All-Star Weekend, held in Orlando, Florida February 26.
Martin was walking home during halftime after purchasing Skittles and an Arizona Iced Tea from the local 7-Eleven when a neighborhood watchman, 28 year old, George Zimmerman, shot and killed him.
Zimmerman is claiming self-defense but the public is not buying it. Millions of signatures on a petition to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have expressed that outrage.
In the city of Sanford, Bonaparte one of the only black public officials. His experience is in New Jersey, as a professor at Rutgers University and city manager positions in Camden, Willington and on the Plainfield City Council.
His former colleagues feel that he is best suited to handled the situation. Plainfield City Council President Adrian Mapp said, "he is a very calm, cool and collected individual who never gets ruffled under pressure." But "still, I can imagine that this is a very difficult time for Mr. Bonaparte."
“In respect to him dealing with a crisis, I believe he’ll do the right thing,” said Assemblyman Angel Fuentes, of Camden New Jersey, who was president of city council during Bonaparte’s tenure. “He has a way of trying to bring everybody to the table and really listening to all parties.”
But in Willingboro, NJ where Bonaparte was township manager in the late 1990s, Mayor Eddie Campbell Jr. said he wants to see stronger action.
“I think he’ll handle it fairly, but I don’t agree with the way he’s handled it so far,” said Campbell, who noted Bonaparte has the authority to fire Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee. “He may yet take the proper action that he should take.”
“I wouldn’t be surprised if he recommended for the police chief to remove himself,” said Fuentes, who noted Bonaparte worked him toward formation of Camden’s Human Relations Committee.
Bonaparte’s role in the saga received national attention this week, when he posted a letter to the community on Sanford’s municipal website Monday, traveled to Washington, D.C. to speak with federal elected officials, and participated in a Thursday news conference during which Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee announced he was stepping down temporarily. A few hours before the announcement, Bonaparte told USA Today that he would await the results of state and federal investigations before deciding Lee’s ultimate fate.
“I want to know if there were things they (Sanford police) should have done that they didn’t do, or things they did that they shouldn’t have done,” Bonaparte said during the news conference.
“On behalf of the employees of the City of Sanford, our deepest sympathy and prayers go out to the family and friends of Trayvon Martin,” he wrote in a public letter. “As a father, I can only (imagine) the pain Trayvon’s family must be going through.”
Bonaparte became Sanford’s city manager in September of last year, after holding the same position in Topeka, Kan. Among other posts, he also served as township manager of Willingboro in the late 1990s.
Bonaparte became the state-appointed overseer for municipal operations in Camden in November 2000, but only after a legal fight over his authority to hold the job. Gov. Christine Whitman initially named him to the post in September 2000, at a time when the state was overseeing Camden’s finances.
Then-Mayor Milton Milan balked at accepting Bonaparte, and city council gave the post to its own choice, Heriberto `Eddie' Colon. Both men claimed the business administrator's title, but a state court eventually ruled in Bonaparte’s favor.
Bonaparte was fired in October 2002 at the onset of a state-funded turnaround program in Camden.
However, he remained in office on an interim basis until April 2003 before becoming city administrator in Plainfield, Union County.
Bonaparte graduated from Cornell University with a Masters in Public Administration and attended the Worcester Polytechnic Institute for Civil Engineering. He graduated in 1971 from the Brooklyn County Technical High School.
Lahiny Pierre's dream is finally becoming a reality. Haitians in Miami will take the streets to ask for justice for Trayvon Martin. Are the “blackies” finally linking?
During the 2011 National Haitian American Forum Author Lahiny Pierre explains that the Haitian community can no longer consider itself different from the other black folks in America. "Those differences are hurting our community" said Lahiny. " we must link up"
Who wants to start the "linking" of the "blackies" movement?
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FOR HOW LONG? For how cotton pickin' long...have I been telling you Negroes (my French-speaking cousins) that ya ain't no better than us ORIGINAL darkies here? Huh?? Old Wedosi been tellin' ya!!! These red-necks do not care that you from an island. YOU IS BLACK LIKE ME!@!! And therefore you can be treated like ME!!! Linking of the "blackies" my butt!!! Let ole Wedosi come tell ya'll a thing or two. Hump!!!
Here I am checking in thanking ya'll supporting my little Trayvon; and, ya'll busy discussing your own high falootin' selves!!!
This was so funny...although this isn't something new on the table. I don't think the solution is to link up with other blackies well resolve this social issue in the USA. Senatdit, wrong my parents generation and my generation thought we( and I still think) superior to others. It's the haitians from poor peasant backrounds that have inferior complexes due to their upbringing in Haiti. Everyone think they are better than the other.. The reality, a lot of blacks think they are better than haitians.
Not true!!! We just know WHO we are!!! Former slaves in a prejudiced country!!! We know that we are ALL in this together...it's our French-speaking cousins that pretend slavery NEVER existed and the white man is loving you to pieces!!! Stay here LONG enough....You'll see what it is to be a Black Man in this country!!!!
During the 2011 National Haitian American Forum Author Lahiny Pierre explains that the Haitian community can no longer consider itself different from the other black folks in America. "Those differences are hurting our community" said Lahiny. " we must link up"
Who wants to start the "linking" of the "blackies" movement?
well, the woman is right that, at least, the older more educated generation believed they were better but ever since our public image was destroyed in the 80s, i actually see an inferiority complex. Now some of the youth have completely assimilated and get caught up in the system. Indistinguishable except for their last names. I was chuckling when the woman said " blackies". I'm confused as what folks are suppose to do when there is finally the linking of the blackies, lol
Wrooooooooooooooooooooong>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fanm my mother made sure we were distinct..I might speak english and understand the afro american culture to an extinct but I was taught to view the world differently...and there was a check of what type of haitians that I was allowed to associate with..in my teens I didn't understand it but now as an adult I agree with it..which I will make sure I hand down to my kids..if you don't meet a certain criteria than there is no way getting into the circle.. plus I will send my kids away in the summer..to make sure they think differently...just like how I was raised....I recall when I use too assimilated with the african americans..never was accepted as a real haitian from the provinicial haitians went back in the circle of my family and feel comfortable..
Please feel free to UN-ASSIMILATE yourself...We got enough problems!!! Don't you just MISS me to pieces cousin??? Wedosi
The other day I was inside an elavator in a building in Harlem New York, and there was another guy inside the elavator too , he was a middle age black guy.
He turn back and look at me and said " I hate when black people are acting white ".
Inside of me I asked myself why he's looking at me and said that. Is it because how I dress ( I like to dress in a fashionable way). So eventhough a lot of things have changed there are still some black americans who are stock in the past etc .
I don't know if anyone of you here, had similar experiences etc.
I too wanna know Maximo? What were you doing? It certainly WAS NOT because you dressed well. AAs can be seriously fly...especially in Harlem! Did you greet the brotha??? Say hello? Were you being rude or something? You don't share an elevator with a middle-aged African American and don't speak and greet....that's DISRESPECT! WE from the ole school! You were rude boo... It's white folks that get in elevators and don't greet elder black folks...NOT BLACK FOLKS!!!!! You were being told that you had no manners!
This is not rejecting the african american as I recognise we are all in this together..especially us living in the good US of A. But it is my right to raise my kids and see me as different culturally. I speak a different language and I prefer to raise my kids in this matter. In regards of Trayvon he is ours..as this bigots and racist do not see culture and language rather color which we have in common. Unfortunately we aren't coming together more enough until a tragedy like this happens. This could've been my son too..Let's hope justice is served.
This is not rejecting the african american as I recognise we are all in this together..especially us living in the good US of A. But it is my right to raise my kids and see me as different culturally. I speak a different language and I prefer to raise my kids in this matter. In regards of Trayvon he is ours..as this bigots and racist do not see culture and language rather color which we have in common. Unfortunately we aren't coming together more enough until a tragedy like this happens. This could've been my son too..Let's hope justice is served.
Wow! You done growed since I last talked to you! WONDERFUL! Yes, let's pray that justice is done. My heart goes out to this young brotha's family.
Stay here LONG enough....You'll see what it is to be a Black Man in this country!!!!
