SOURCE; The Daily Herald, Wednesday, March 2, 2011; Letter to editor 'Big Mistake' to Leopold JAMES by a 'proud' Haitian'
OUR COMMENTARY;
This discussion is one of those that are 'politically very incorrect' to even broach - but are absolutely necessary nevertheless.
If it is up to many Haitains, it is very clear, and straight-forward.
When it comes to a very honest, transparent and constructive discussion of the many 'Haiti' issues, the entire world is wrong.
Even if they choose to live in denial and are dead-wrong - still- they are right.
In their eyes that is.
Even the yet unborn generations of innocent children of other nations-, and Haitians are always right, even if they are dead-wrong.
Therefore-, every non-Haitain, owes every Haitian everything they have, including, their own rights in their own countries.
In other words, Haitians can lay some divine claim to every right and to service others sacrificed to build up in their own country.
Not giving in to such claims, automatically makes one a 'hater' of Haitians.
Talking about a 'warped' sense of reality and justice.
Prime example;
The Letter to the editor in the Daily Herald of Wednesday, March 2, 2011 'Big mistake', signed by one Pierre Joseph Witus, calling himself a 'proud Haitian'
His 'pride' however, must be put in the perspective, that he chooses not to live in Haiti and to rebuild it, but that Mr. Man has chosen to exercise his Haitian pride on St. Maarten.
So much for that kind of pride.
His Letter reflects the typical defensive, knee-jerk response of many Haitians to any person, who also feels proud of his/her own country and wishes to defend it, like Haitians do for their own country.
'You do not like Haitians.....'.
Never mind, that almost never a Haitians addresses the real issue at hand.
Or, ever shows the slightest of empathy with others, like St. Martiners, whose island they are literally flooding and deforesting, leading to the very extinction of St. Martin people, their culture and their environment.
Oh no, that is fine.
Meanwhile here are some facts/questions Haitians as a people better face, resolve and deal with, if ever to escape eternal poverty and perceived anonymity towards them.
- Why is it great for Haitians to be very proud, and nationalistic when it comes to their beloved Ayity, but same is not afforded to others, like St. Martiners ?
- Why do Haitians feel that only they have suffered under the evil of slavery, what about people for the other Caribbean islands for instance ?
- Why don't Haitians control their birth-rate, which is the highest in the Western hemisphere, and a seriously contributing load on the carrying-capacities of the countries to which they immigrate ?
- Should St. Martiners simply continue to allow for the numbers of Haitians on the island to explode, without even trying to preserve the St. Martin people ?
- How come, that ni the Kittitians, the Anguillans, the Antiguans, the Barbadians and other Caribbean nationals living on the island, unjustly and consistently criticize St. Martiners for saying 'enough is enough', and that st. Martiners have the right to protect themselves from becoming extinct ?
Meanwhile, I refer this 'proud' Haitian, residing on our little 'two-by-four-over- populated-island' to the many articles on similar issues ('Haitains in the diaspora') on the internet.
Then the good gentleman would realize that it is not only a Leopold James, who has realized that there is a real 'Haitian' problem, which, if left unaddressed will lead to the genocide by substitution of many Caribbean nationals in the region.
In ending.
Living in denial of this major issue, might be the easy, and politically correct thing to do, but it will never result in the problem disappearing.
Quite to the contrary.
It will lead to a social- economic and catastrophic future for many in the region and elsewhere.
Meanwhile, I, Leopold JAMES, will continue to defend the interest of my St. Martin people to survive and thrive in their own land.
If that is wrong, save me being right - according the the Haitian way if thinking.
drs. Leopold JAMES
A proud, native indigenous St. Martiner, living in his own home-land
Without apologies.
