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< August 19 2009 at 11:31 PM >
Zac says...

As you know Linda I'm currently reading "the black jacobins" the book that you suggested.

In the book James graphically details the way slaves were treated.

The restavec situation is cruel but I agree that it doesn't come as close to the cruel abuses slaves endured.

But I reiterate again that no child should have to live in a condition like that. Most children can adapt and survive just about any living condition but then the question becomes, should a child have to live through a situation like that?

And I think white people classifies restavecs as such to alleviate what possible guilts they may have about slavery.

It's their way of saying everybody's doing it.

None of you guys know my last name but I still feel very uncomfortable talking about some of the things I went through.

I want to keep these things private because I feel I would appear subhuman if people knew. The thing that angers me the most is the fact that while I was living with them. They made me feel like they were doing me a favor, like i was a charity case. But when I moved to the US I found out that all alone my parents were sending money on a monthly basis for them to care for my brother and I. I admit they did sent us to school but the rest well let's leave it at that.

I was angry at my parents because they were legal residents but they didn't really travel to Haiti to check up on us.

As far as school is concerned I was trying to decide between georgia tech, gatech.edu/ and NYU, nyu.edu.

I have a cousin at Georgia tech and my best friend is starting his first year of law school at NYU this year. But i'm now leaning strongly toward NYU my friend introduced me to a student who's studying international law at NYU; this student is in his third year of law school and he's about to start an internship at the UN. This student said at the appropriate time he could help me get an internship there as well. I'm sure with an experience like that it would be very easy for me to find a good job somewhere in the future.

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Posted by Zac on August 19 2009 at 11:31 PM



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Dear Lovely Sister, If there are more than one hundred posts on the topic that automatically tells us that many of us express interest in it. It is true that our country has been and for the longest time now going through political turmoil, econom > >
Robert Alexandre, 16-Aug-09 11:19 pm
Dear Lovely Sister, No one said that Haiti`s geographical location has anything to do with its current state of disgrace and shame. I have absolutely no recollections of anyone making such a statement. It is obvious that you are not interested in > >
Robert, 16-Aug-09 11:35 pm
Dear Robert, you are right. I have been rather impatient lately with the bloggers. Because of that I tend to stay away from the blog more and more these days. I cannot stop thinking of the starving children, of the unemployed young men, of the kids w > >
Linda, 17-Aug-09 7:02 pm
Dear Lovely Sister, Let me tell you franckly that i truly truly understand and appreciate your concern. Please don`t get me wrong because of what I am about to tell you and I think you should take it as a piece of advice. You see that Haiti issue > >
Robert, 18-Aug-09 11:21 pm
Linda I read this comment that you posted the other day and I wanted to comment on it but after working a 13 hour shift my mind was running on empty, today was no different but throughout the day at work this matter laid siege to my mind. So I feel i > >
Zac, 19-Aug-09 2:57 am
I can believe you guys are back with this subject. We've discussed it some many times already. The Notebookblogz Haiti Team > >
Notebookblogz.com, 19-Aug-09 11:32 am
Zac What a great uplifting story! Zac believe it or not I somewhat lived that life too. I was only 6 years old when my father died. My mom became mentally unstable 5, 6 months later. We were only three siblings and I was the only boy, the you > >
Tiba, 19-Aug-09 4:27 pm
Zac, I was very moved by your story. And yes, you are right, someone like yourself would never amount to much in Haiti; Even with your beautiful intelligence and wisdom, you would most likely end up unemployed, or driving some kind of truck or car, o > >
Linda, 19-Aug-09 5:33 pm
Tiba I read your story and I relate to the part where you said you would not have changed any of it for the world. I was so traumatized by these experiences that for a long time I suffered from insomnia. Night after night I would lie in bed thinkin > >
Zac, 19-Aug-09 10:26 pm
As you know Linda I'm currently reading "the black jacobins" the book that you suggested. In the book James graphically details the way slaves were treated. The restavec situation is cruel but I agree that it doesn't come as close to the cruel abus > >
Zac, 19-Aug-09 11:31 pm
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