Concerned

Many people seem concerned about the role of the United States in particular in Haiti.  They think that there is a progressive takeover since the earthquake.  What good does it do Haiti right now for anyone to be preoccupied by what the Americans are doing there?  The important point is that they may have been the first to come to the rescue of the Haitians because of their proximity and their desire to show that they care.  Some of you have said that this is propaganda for Obama but I don’t think so because he could have kept his distances.  He made promises to help and he has kept them.  Not only has he helped but the entire country even those who think that Haiti is cursed have told me they sent 291 tons of relief materials to Haiti.  When you look at the telethon that brought in excess of $58 milion you only need to say Thank You to those artists who participate and whoever put this effort together.  The Americans have done a lot since January 12, 2010.  I cannot say but positive things about CNN.  We need to thank God for Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta and  the entire CNN crew on location in Haiti. 

I personally have nothing against the Americans, I am Haitian-American and I would not do any less than what they have done.  I need to admit that Haiti had nothing that could take care of this major problem.  The world and the Americans came to the rescue, we just need to say thanks.  We are not going to let our pens and our desire to make the headlines spoil the wonderful deeds that the world has done toward Haiti. Instead we need to be humble  and ask ourselves how would things be if those people that we think are there to take over our country did not come to the rescue. 

I hate to make reference to Paul Shirley but one true thing he said in his article “against” helping Haiti is that we did not have anything in place to help ourselves in case of a disaster given that we have had so many catastrophes in this decade alone that we have not learned anything from them.  Should I blame Preval, Latortue, Aristide for doing nothing about those problems?  Problably that would be a waste of time.  We have been sick so many times we have a pretty good idea of the medicine to take to cure us of this sickness.  While we are laying down flat on our stomac, the world is helping us to get up, I promise you that we will stay up and will be proud of our accomplishment in the next two decades.  Our resiliency will get us through this time of trouble and Haiti shall rise.