Yes You Can

We young Haitians who having been educated away from the fiasco that is Haiti, it is truly difficult to remain sane in relationship with our less learned brothers and sisters. We who have been schooled particularly in the United States and other developed countries, we are taught to live by knowledge, logic, reason, science, ethics, moral, and so on. Our less learned brothers live mostly by emotion, by instinct. When we come together, we clash. We don't belong together. I mean, we who have received a formal education from a developed environment, to borrow from another compatriot, we have traveled a long way ahead of our brothers and sisters. What we have learned, what we have seen, what we know; they don't fit in their world of unlearning.

They don't understand what we understand.

Imagine! We are Haitian; we have received an education; and we are ready to return to try to work with our brothers and sisters in Haiti. We are not welcome. In government and higher sectors, we are considered a threat that would come to steal jobs. They don't understand that we could come and participate and help create more jobs. Our poorer brothers and sisters themselves, they would do anything to keep us in the diaspora so that we could kill ourselves to send them money. They are ready to murder us if we should try to return to Haiti. In the Diaspora itself if you are prosperous, in the standard of the Haitian, you would be fine as long as you keep yourself from intermingling with the lower mass. That is. As an informed and cultured individual you are no longer a party to the mess, the smallness, the falseness, the illusion, the insincerity, and the self-depreciating pretension that the morbid unlearned culture harbors.

Go above and beyond

As I have been arguing for us to remain connected, this is my advice. Go above and beyond. I mean. Stay away from the mess and try to help from distance. I know that some of you have argued that you cannot do anything for those people. But, you already know my position. Yes you can, as said Obama. You would do whatever positive deeds that you can. For instance, one of my friends who are followers of this blog has always been a positive influence on me and many other young Haitians. Perhaps he was not even been aware of that. I guess he was just doing his thing as of his personality and was not even thinking about it. But I must give him some credit if I can be strong and writing this blog today. What I am trying to say. We can help our Haitian system in whatsoever positive way our ability allows. It does not have to be politics; it does not have to be religion; we don't have to go sit and play dominoes together or anything like that.

We go above and beyond. That means. We do our own things without trying to assimilate. We live our own lives as to our financial ability, do the right thing, and others would take notice. We could always look behind and try to see what we could do to help our Haitian nature. In the U.S., they say you give back to your community. Many of us would argue that Haiti did not give us anything, and we don't have to give back. Yet, remember! We are Haitian. Whatever we could do to make Haitian look good, it would worth the efforts.

By E.C. GRANMOUN

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