Dunno, can't think of anything right now, but I do have something for all Haitians...
I found this information important to share so BE PROUD OF UR COUNTRY, I KNO I Am I don't have to tell you that, however unfortunately, Haiti is regarded by most people in the United States and in the so-called First World generally as an underdeveloped, backward place. Technologically and economically, that may be true. Culturally, I don't think so. Allow me to make certain comparisons between Haiti and the U.S. In Haiti, the family (to whose values so much lip service is paid by U.S. politicians) is powerful and intact. Community bonds, which extend from kinship bonds, are also powerful and intact. In the United States, with its fifty-percent-plus divorce rate and its nationwide scattering and shattering of the extended family, all this has been lost. Our old people, gran-moun nou, are shut up in nursing homes as soon as they become unable to fend for themselves. If we are so foolish as to turn our backs on our small children in a public place, they will be abducted and destroyed by sexual predators. In Haiti, anyone caught molesting a child has excellent chance of being killed on the spot. Which country is more civilized?One cannot say that there is no racism in Haiti, but I will say that in Haiti, issues of race have been mostly unmasked as issues of class-- all Haitians understand this, even if foreigners do not. It may be difficult to regard Jean-Jacques Dessalines as a great humanitarian, but he did, by establishing that all Haitians henceforward would be known as nèg, abolish the conceptual connection between race and skin tone. In the U.S. we have been trying for 200 years and still can't do that. Tell me, which country is more backward?
Here too are the roots of the attraction of the story of the Haitian Revolution for this one American "blan", and for all of us. The modern world was brought into being by three Revolutions: the American, the French and the Haitian. All three Revolutions were based on an ideology of freedom, equality, and brotherhood. Only the Haitian Revolution extended the ideology to all people, not only to white people. Only the Haitian Revolution put its money where its mouth was. Only the Haitian Revolution was really successful.
The French and American Revolutions foundered on their unacknowledged inconsistencies, betrayed themselves and went astray. In the United States and in Europe one lives with the consequences of that failure: fascism, racism, genocide are the rot on the carcass of dead revolutions. Meanwhile, during that same two hundred years, the Haitian Revolution has only been sleeping. It so happened that when all the planets lined up in a row to inaugurate the age of Aquarius, I was climbing the path to the Citadelle. At the hounfors all around they were ready-- we could hear the drums start at the very instant the planetary event took place, at Dondon and Limonade and all over the Plaine du Nord. The last time such a thing had happened on our solar system, Ayiti had still belonged to the Taino people, and African slavery had not yet been invented.
Haiti is the crossroads where all the Western World came-- and took a wrong turn. How does one correct such an error and regain the right road? One must return to the same kalfou where first the mistake was made.
On the battlements of the Citadelle I thought that the Haitian Revolution must reawaken and release its sleeping energies to reform the United States and all of the Western Hemisphere. Indeed, it seemed inevitable to me at that moment that it would happen. In the States everyone talked about saving Haiti-- everyone who bothered with the subject at all. The truth was that we needed Haiti to save us.
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:: Subject: Dear Haiti:
