THE MOVEMENT TO ERECT THE STATUS-QUO AS THE LONLY LEGITIMATE AID TO HAITI IS PREPOSTUROUS!
Lahiny,
Georgia
Sunday, January 24, 2010
On the break of this Sunday morning, I am appalled. The networks are filled with discouraging messages to stir our nation away from the truth about Haiti. Truth is the grassroots movement has been carrying Haiti thus far. We have been sending money to friends, family and strangers. WE have been carrying Haiti's legacy and we have been fighting with the people to keep Haiti from outside occupation.
Now, today, a bunch of little dicks and janes are questioning our validity. Why? It's a matter of control. First we control who can aid Haiti because we can control Haiti's port and Haiti's neighbors. But the people are continuously dying as we strategize a propaganda to legitimize U.S. presence in Haiti.
The people of Haiti soil are far from uninformed and stupid. A five year old can recite to you international sanctions against Haiti from years back. The movement of the people on Haiti soil does not reign on the big screen but on the ground where each one teach one; where one's home is the place of grassroots origination involvement.
How is the propaganda affecting Haitian grassroots organizers here? I am a community organizer and worker. My works dates back to pre-school years in Haiti and the age of 14 since migrating here. Imagine the frustration of having to defend my organization in the face of him who seeks to "dig for bones in callalloo".
As of last week, I recruited a person to help build a website for our movement, ORGANIZING FOR HAITI, please see www.aoishima-research.com. We are better than legitimate, we are legal grassroots educators, but I couldn't make the "white man" who volunteered to build our webpage see this fact. This movement is led by two women and for this "white man" things don't make sense. He kept insisting on talking to the lead (I assume a man) of our organization forgetting his purpose in deciding to help us was not to become the "massa" of our movement but to simply build a webpage as he declared himself capable of doing.
Since then we have asked this "white man" to share with us the domain keys for our website (we have a dot com, dot net, and dot org), he has refused to share our own website key with us. He is holding our websites hostages not even realizing (or in full awareness) this is hindering our on the ground community actions. I WONDER IF THIS "WHITE MAN" IS WITH THE C.I.A. Our organization has been pondering on the issue and we can find no solution to approach this "white man" who judged us as incapable because we are Haitian, women, black, or a combination of all three. In the meantime our organization is suffering.
I write this in search of help on how to deal with such demise. In my country's (Haiti) grassroots world, there's a non-spoken, non-written code of honor. This "white man" is a traitor, a chien dog eat on the floor don't say thank you" character type. In Haiti, this man would be ignored and a solution would be formed where the community would deal with his theft of our domain keys.
To you I pose this question (United States Grassroots Movement), WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH THIS "WHITE MAN" WHO HOLDS HOSTAGE 3 WEBSITES WE NEED TO PROPEL OUR GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT
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