Haiti...

Haiti experienced the worst earthquake on record for any Caribbean country and it pains me to my core.

I've watched the media just post photo upon photo of the pain, hurt, anguish and despair of a people who have been suffering for decades.

I pray for my friends who are of Haitian descent...the Pascals, the Micheles, the Laurents, the Pauls, and a very very dear friend Sascha who taught me sooo much about the plight of a forgotten people in the Caribbean.

In 2007, I went to the Dominican Republic...the resort that I stayed in was filled with people from Haiti who were working to support their families.

I learned a lot in that visit...I mean after all DR is just as impoverished as Haiti however for some strange reasons the Dominicans frowned upon Haitians as a lesser people...it truly bugged me out.

I never understood it....I was even warned at work to be careful as to not get kidnapped and forced into a sex trade in Haiti...Go Figure!!!!

I love my Caribbean people...I truly love them...I read about the beauties of Haiti in my Caribbean literature class at Howard.

But always the stigma attached, the color divide, the poverty, the haves the have nots...all these things the same as the African American people...so sad our brown people suffer across the continent from being divided by all things related to color.

My heart bleeds and aches for Haiti...I pray this will finally "Wake-Up the World" to the poverty of Third World Countries of Brown People...because just like Jamaica, Guyana, Dominican Republic, Cuba....countries with brown people in poverty.

When will we figure it out that all people must be taken care of????

No matter the political climate or US Sanction...when will we all wake-up and realize...children are dieing everyday...for what????

We have all been brainwashed to hate each other and it must stop...we must learn to love...I'm sure every one's God preaches this...


I pray for Haiti....I pray for Haiti....