Haiti : NEWS: Starvation and Jim Crow racism in Haiti.. by Minister JR

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Today, on the one month anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, I went all
over Port au Prince and saw the devastation firsthand and the occupation by
Brazil under the guise of the U.N., and of course the U.S.A. I rode through
Port au Prince all day and didn’t see one act of recovery going on.

I haven’t left Port au Prince. Here it looks like the city was hit with an atomic
bomb. All through the city you could smell dead bodies and see people going
through the rubble lookin for scraps of metal to build a shanty-house and for
anything that can be eaten, drunk or sold.

I don’t see where the millions of dollars that have been raised for Haiti is
going. Everywhere people is starving. Me and my comrades gave some of the
most desperate some money, but the thing is that it might help them today;
what about tomorrow?

We been staying at a makeshift hospital run by some white so-called
American missionaries. Today at the house I witnessed my first act of Jim
Crow-type racism from so-called friends on this particular trip.

Haiti is like a time machine. It’s like 1920 here in terms of the apartheid type
of relationships that the whites have with the Blacks. The white woman of
“God” that runs the house says that Haitians can’t come in the house from
their shantytown in the backyard after the hospital closes, but check this
out: Multiple dogs have free reign all over the property. So in other words,
these dogs are more important than the Haitians – including the hungry
babies, the old people, the wounded and maimed and regular everyday
people.

One of the members of our delegation was told not to feed the Haitians in
the tent city in the backyard because they already eat once a day. The
issue is, why do they think that they can determine who I share my food
with? The house is full of white people who have free reign to eat as much
as they want, and whenever they want.


full article: http://www.sfbayview.com/2010/minister-jr-from-haiti-part-1-starvation-and-jim-crow-racism/
 

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