Linda, You know very well that you and are partners in crime...
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Linda,
You know very well that you and are partners in crime, but hold on on this one.
Here's what I mean. I really don't believe that illeteracy in Haiti is as high anymore as people keep potraying it to be. And here's why if we can do some critical thinking for a moment.
For example, it's been reported ever since under Duvalier that 85% of Haitians were illeterate.
Today, November 13, 2008, according to report from UN and US, Haiti is still 85% illeterate.
Don't you see something is wrong with this picture.
There are more schools in Haiti, today, than there were decades ago which means Haitians are being more and more educated today, in this 21st century, and yet, Haiti is still 85% illeterate.
And the sad thing about it is that we, Haitians, keep buying into this propaganda which is nothing else but "institutional racism" that being used against us, Haitians, by US in collaboration with the international community.
The United States keep using this 85% iliteracy propaganda as a tool keep Haiti in isolation and elienation from the rest of the world and we, Haitians, get trapped in that complicity.
For example, I remember, there were only 5 schools in my hometown in the early 1970s long before I left to come to US. Today, as we speak, there are 15 or 20 new schools in that town alone.
I, personally, had found people here in the city where I live in New York, sponsoring many of these children for school, from elementary to college.
I think Haitians back home keep electing the same runed down, tired, brain damaged candidates to power mostly because they are not informed and not so much because they are illeterate.
In Haiti, Haitians do not elect candidates to office based on the importance of the issues that matter to them and their families, but rather on the family name of the candidate, socio-economic status, education level (whether the candidate can speak French well or not) of that candidate and whether or not the candidate is an Aristide supporter.
These are the reasons for which Haitians vote and elect a candidate to office.
Rational people, who understand politics and are well informed, elect to office candidates they know with the capacity, the ability and willingness to create opportunities for all and move the country forward toward prosperity.
Unfortunately, this rational doesn't apply to Haitians.
Tiba, November 13 2008, 5:38 PM
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