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Haiti is in good hands... we have nothing to fear.
This new paradigm represents an extraordinary opportunity today to reinvent and redefine the Haitian Identity.
And, if done intelligently and successfully, the consequences will be as liberating and as crucial as 1804 itself .
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Open letter to the members of the "Interim Haiti Recovery Commission" (IHRC) and the African-American Community.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03282008/watch.html
Dear friends and fellow Americans:
This is an invitation to use the Kerner Commission Report as a guide and resources in your search for solutions as you begin this extraordinary mission of rebuilding Haiti's infrastructure and civil society. Haiti and the black ghettos of America have many things in common and the level of poverty in our isolated and dysfunctional neighborhoods have the same historical and tragic causes and effects. More importantly, we have an outstanding opportunity in Haiti today to fully and completely adhere to and put into application the recommendations of the Kerner Commission and build a new and open society that will be the envy of the international community.
We don't have to reinvent the wheel.
What Haiti needs today is new and bold leadership ....
and I sincerely believe that IHRC has the assets, the structure, the formula and the leaders to make history again in the land of the maroons.
"I feel a special connection to Haiti and the Haitian people," Cheryl Mills says.
"The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous.
And, Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans."
What a honor and a privilege to have such an outstanding and powerful young lady like Cheryl Mills speak on behalf of the Haitian people!
The spirit and vision of Toussaint Louverture through her roles and actions are alive again in the Haitian arena.
As we witnessed this senseless struggle in the Middle East over land and identity, let us rejoice in the Haitian and African-American Communities for this gift and that great location that destiny and fate has bestowed on our people. It's now time to get smart and develop this beautiful island together in partnership with our friends and fellow Americans.
Haiti belongs to all of us ... our victory in 1804 has no greater meaning... Our HOME is your HOME !
The Haitian Revolution provided us all, brothers and sisters of African descent in the Americas, with an oasis of universal freedom and justice to protect our bodies and souls in a very strange and different world. Now more than ever, Haiti needs all of us, as a united family, in order to guarantee her own survival in a global community that can hardly understand the reason for her existence.
Let us begin the work today and build that new HOME that Toussaint Louverture had dreamed for all of us... and hand in hand, as one nation with a common purpose, serve and protect our fellow Africans in the Americas, especially our brothers and sisters within the walls of their artificial borders in Haiti, enjoy and develop with pride and dignity this sacred land that our ancestors and liberators have entrusted to all of us... we know you're going to do us proud.
Haiti needs and deserves an historical and international embrace
similar to what Zionism has done for Israel.
African-Americans and Haitian-Americans with a minimum knowledge
and understanding of our common history in the Americas,
can and should do for Haiti what the Jewish Diaspora has done for Israel.
These two nations are identical except for our skin color.
Why would our destiny be different?
And, in addition, what a great opportunity for black people in America to change their status from Affirmation Action recipients to nation builders -- like Gloda Meir in 1948.
Yes we can and together we shall overcome!