Socio-economic Genocide In Haiti

In January 2010 a devastating earthquake flattened Port-au-prince and the surrounding areas. Some 300,000 individuals perished, and millions injured and left without shelter. The international community responded sympathetically and massively. Yet, the power struggle of imperialism was felt, as the United States imposed itself in Port-au-prince, chasing all others about. Much was promised. Very little accomplished.

 In 2011 a greater disaster struck the country. While the earthquake caused much physical damage that the eye could see, the ascendance of Michel Martelly (Sweetmicky) to power is the worst the little country would see in the sphere of this global society, setting it back and off course for many years to come.

For much of its existence, the mass of the people in Haiti has remained in the state of under development due to the lack of leadership.  The little island nation has recognized mostly despots and dictators that have brutalized the inhabitants and keeping them in much of a bestial nature. Life in Haiti has remained "...short and brutish," as not by recently by an American journalist. It took the poor mass of the country some 29 years to break the yoke of the brutal Duvaliers’ regime in 1986. And, after much thuggish military power play, the mass of the people arrived to choose a man of their own, President Jean Bertrand Aristide in the elections of 1990. A leftist priest of the Theology of Liberation, Aristide was radical against the established powers that had been the cause of the misery of the Haitian mass. The Haitian elites and the imperialists automatically marked the new president for death. Since his militancy days, the Haitians military goons attempted to eliminate him on several occasions. And, in accomplice with the United States, the repressive military gave him a coup-d’etat even before swearing to the presidency. Thereafter, he suffered 2 other coups.

Michel Martelly was at the center of this resistance against the choice of the people. He associated with the Haitian bourgeoisie and the imperialists to curb the progressive movement of the mass. They sabotaged all attempts to the establishment of legitimate government. The assassinated the character of the charismatic priest. The plotted the most absolute resistance branded “tabraz” to not cooperate with his government. They flooded the country with illegalities, drugs, crimes, and arms. They pushed the movement of the people to demise. Of course President Aristide was a radical priest. Likewise he was leading a revolution against a radical dictatorship and military rogues brutalizing the mass of the people for so long. His approach and position were of course extreme. Still, he would have negotiated. However, the imperialist machination would not work with him. They would not give the country and the people a chance. And, with the black colon mindset, the country is drawing near its grave.

The imperialists and the black colons make up the perfect destructive machine of Haiti. Sweetmicky Michel Martelly is a perfect representation of that. Unlike President Aristide who was an educated priest, vested in literature, arts, and humanities; and who advocated a better Haitian national environment for the whole; Michel Martelly is a brut "Sweemicky" with barely a high school education, wasted in drugs and boozes, participating in all illegalities, advocating for the mediocre Haitian bourgeoisie with not national sentiment. The imperialist have found their operator in him for their destructiveness of the Haitian nation. How so?

Society today is a complex, sophisticated, and complicated entity that requires much educational refinement to manage the subtle ruses of its nature. It is a predatory environment, capitalism, survival of the fittest at the uttermost, only the best would survive. Haiti is an ultimate victim, at the very lowest end of the food chain. The imperialists are just swallowing the tiny nation. And, Michel Martelly, without the benefit of higher education, is greasing the way. Imperialism, capitalism at its uttermost.

Depriving of a higher education, the human being is very limited in the art of sophistication. To put it simple, you see small. Imperialism is a machine of sophistication, adorned with doctorates, masters, and bachelors. Those people are almost soulless. And, when they are dealing with an illiterate, they just use him as tissue paper. They know that you don’t know much. You are almost a animal, a child seeking the immediate gratifications. They give you the little things you wish, and they do whatever they want with you.  Sweetmicky Michel Martelly represents just such a character. That’s why he is the greatest disaster of modern Haiti. The imperialists despised President Aristide because of his emphasis on fairness for Haiti and the mass of the people. However, in spite of the so-called democratic principle, the United States has complotted with Michel Martelly to reestablish dictatorship in Haiti in this plain 21st century.

When the illiterate mass acclaimed the presence of Sweetmicky Michel Martelly in the elections at the end of 1990 because of dissatisfaction with Preval, the imperialists knew they had their man to reverse the movement of the people. They threw their money machine behind him and hurled him to power. Having been with their destabilizing trend since the beginning of Aristide, they knew what they had in their hands. Michel Martelly came to erase all traits of democracy, liberty, and any rights of the mass of the people. He has therefore methodically kidnapped the process of election and filled all electoral posts with his partisans. He has run psychological propagandas promoting false hopes and bedeviling all oppositions. And, after three years without election, he has ended up the one despot leader of Haiti, presiding along the American Ambassador, Pamela White, and their chosen 9th grade level prime minister Evens Paul K-plim.

The imperialist machine is cruel at the uttermost. Now, imagine this perfect destructive machine of Haiti in this plain 21st century, the world of globalization and ultimate information, Haiti is led by two literally illiterate "black colons". It is criminal. The United States is criminal for placing two unlearned men on the top of the tiny country. This is genocidal.

By E.C. GRANMOUN
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My Wish For This New Year

Thousands of people have taken the streets of Port-au-prince the capital and other major cities in the country; rocks are being thrown; smokes are going up the heavens by the burning tires and other trashes to block the streets; people have been injured; there have even been reports of deaths. The people are protesting. They are trying to overthrow their government, that of President Michel Martelly. This is nothing new. It is two hundred years of political strife in the history of Haiti in which the nation, the mass of the people, has always come out the ultimate loser. In fact, some ten years ago, the president Michel Martelly himself was at the opposite end. He was working on the unmaking of President Jean Bertrand Aristide.

When Toussaint Louverture, the architect of liberty against slavery in Haiti, declared freedom for the slaves, he did not seek independence. He wanted peace and security, and to remain attached to France, the motherland. But, France, in spite of its current “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens,” it could not accept the freedom of the black man. Napoleon Bonanpatre sent out the largest naval expedition at the moment to subdue the liberation movement. The liberators fought their way out and won their liberty with blood.  

For the 200 years of its existence, Haiti has been continually advancing towards its demise. From its inception in 1804, it has made no step toward progressive development. In fact, it appears to be far worse than where it started. In addition to the political violence that has always been stalking the tiny country, everything has been literally destroyed along the way. The citizenry remains a shameless, unethical, and valueless entity. The land environment is almost bare of any life form. And, the nation as a whole is devoid of any real structure, as in conformity with societal nature. And, the main culprit behind this dysfunctional nation is none other than the power of national fragmentation, originated from fundamental slavery, with a culture of bigotry and distrust. This sentiment revived in the veins of the new Haitian nation, through the machination of the same white man and slave masters, collaborating with their bastards and bigots, to not living in the unity of the Negro nation.

At the end, the “pearl of the islands” as Haiti was known, has turned into a “failed nation”, as to the standard of the world of Nation States. My wish for this new year is for the Haitians nation to start coming together in reversing the perilous course of their nation. Most Haitians think it is a lost cause – Haiti cannot be saved. In their views, the culmination of 200 years of the bestial environment described above could only get worse. Haitians are discouraged, confused, unrealistic, and living in a state of ultimate desperation without any light at the end of the tunnel.

A Light of Hope

I say, “I see a light at the end of tunnel.” On her Facebook page, the beautiful I am Haitian recently wrote, “In the face of impossible odds, people who love Haiti can change it.” I supported her statement when I shared it on my page MKNA – All Haitians Together For A Better Haiti, where I commented, “I would add that it is not simply to "love Haiti" but also something deeper, to envision a new face of Haitian away from the veil of shame, that could lead to change Haiti, [a better Haiti].” What I am trying to say, Haitians need to start feeling something that gives them a certain desire that could move them towards improving their own national nature. Right now, it is a wild-wild-west over there. It is a bestial nature. Haitians need to start experiencing a desire for the development of an environment that promotes human nature.

This would not come easy. 200 years of political strife and national fragmentation would not just blank away. Yet, I agree with Miss I am Haitian, things could change. The slaves fought for 300 years. They did not stop in the face of monstrosity from the slave masters. They continued to fight, crying “liberty or death” until they won their freedom. Today, the Haitian man does not face death. In fact, we are facing death more by not trying. So, in the spirit of my wish, this is the year of the turning point, the year that we are starting to come together as a nation to live and work in unity for our common cause. 

What I mean by that? According to this new year’s resolution, we will begin undertaking the following steps to pull the Haitian citizenry together. (1) All Haitians will begin looking at each other as ‘my countrymen’. (2) Haitians will start to consider what is wrong with their system and seeking ways to ameliorate things. (3) Haitians will discourage the youths from copying the wrongful past. (4) Haitians will seek to start building positive and productive relations with each other. (5) Haitians will stop supporting bad politicians because of partisanship. With that, the nation could begin to move away from adverse politics to a progressive and rightful state for the Haitian beings.

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By E.C. GRANMOUN

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The Struggle For Liberty And Prosperity In Haiti

211 Years in History

It was about 211 years ago, the 1^st of January 1804, when the brave men of Haiti cried victory at last from the chains, the whip, the rapes, and all the brutish savageries of the slave masters. It was not a victory for Haitians alone. It was a victory for the Negro race in general that had been subjected to the abasement of human nature through institutional servitude by other human beings, based on skin pigmentation. Toussaint Louverture, the architect of the fight for liberty in the face of French colonialism, envisioned a society in which all men enjoy equal freedom in accord with the laws of nature and civil society, as introduced by the same French proclamation of “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens (1789).”

Toussaint did not wish to break away from France. At the time, Haiti, or Saint Domingue, as it was known was considered the most productive place on earth. The Colons named it, “The Pearl of the Islands” due to its greenish beauty and its richness. The French Colons made fortunes there on the backs of the black ancestors. Toussaint and his collaborators wanted that to change, for the Negroes to have liberty and a share of the productive life that was there. Based on the Declaration of 1789, he declared the slaves free under the constitution of the then mother nation, France. However, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French emperor of the time could not stand to see the Negro people free. He unleashed the mightiest naval forces of the moment to subdue Haiti. Jean Jacques Dessalines, the father of the Independence, cried, “Libery or Death!” After the greatest atrocities, the French militaries capitulated. The Negro slaves won their liberty and their territory. 

Freedom did not bring unity in the new Haiti. It brought faction instead, as the majority Negro population would have to perpetually continue to fight the minority Caucasian and Mulatto that would not recognize the Blacks as equal, to collaborate with them to form an environment of mutual respect and prosperity for all. Now, it is 211 years after the Independence. Haiti  has remained a culture of division and strife that has produced a “Failed State”, as to the standard of the world of Nation States and of the general society of globalization.

The Fight Goes On

Today, 211 years later, the fight goes on. The Haitian mass, the underprivileged, the poor, the illiterate, and those sympathizing with them are doing battle. The Haitian elites and the misinformed call them “ignorant and savage, (sot, bet).” But for a contemporary British author, writing about the American Occupation of the island, he considered the above description as opposite. MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY wrote recently in the opinion section of the illustrious Wall Street Journal. “…everyday life here is, in the words of Thomas Hobbes, mostly “nasty, brutish and short.” For this we can thank the politicians.” That’s how objective observers view the independence that was produced in Haiti by the Freedom fighters. It is sad. Yet, the mass of the people would never give up their fight for freedom and prosperity. 

So far, for 211 years of existence as a country, Haitian leadership has failed miserably. Today, on the eve of the 211^th anniversary, the most deplorable condition is existed, as described by O’grady; or as illustrated below - Crisis After Crisis: (1) Elections are overdue for three years. (2) Soon all elected representatives would be nulled. (3) The judiciary system is nonexistent or without merit. (4) The Prime Minister was recently forced out by the president facing popular protest. (5) The mass of the people requires the resignation of the President. (6) In summary, Mother Haiti and its poor children are the only losers.

What new generations of Haitians leadership and all those fighting for freedom must comprehend is the Toussaint Louvertue’s dream. It is a world of Liberty of Mutual Respect, where people live and collaborating together for a better society. It is what we call Democracy. Young and new Haitian leaders must take a new approach away from the pass 211 years, where it has been a fight for spoils and winners take all. Today, in the world of globalization, nations are seeking to come together with each other to form common bonds and share interests so that they could live in peace and harmony.

Haitian Elites Must Beware

The world out there is no longer an environment of savagery of hunting and gathering. It is a world of collaboration, of society, of civilization. Nations are joined together to form better societies among themselves and others. Are we so bestial that we cannot even collaborate with our own brothers and sisters? Why can’t we come together and share? Lavalas comes. They take everything to the left. Now Neo Makout is trying to pull everything to the right. It is bestial at the uttermost. No wonder that O’Grady sees life in Haiti as, “nasty, brutish and short.” And, with that, the fight will always be on. Why? Because the leadership, the elites, keeps the environment bestial and animalistic. And what animals do in the wilderness? They chase after each other. They devour each other.

How Long this Is Going to Continue?

The new generation has to choose. Are we going to continue on the destructive paths of our parents? Or, are we going to concoct our own new and better pathways that would lead us in this world of globalization? This is a recipe for you Nouvel Generation: (1) The nation state is a civilized environment where various groups of people live in common accord to better their lives based on societal nature and away from the wilderness. (2) People are brothers and sisters in a national environment, responsible for each other’s safety and well-being, as separated from other nations. (3) The nation state is a collective society; all the nationals must come together in mutual respect, collaborate, and work to advance the better cause of the nation. (4) No other nation is in the best interest of another. The leadership of each nation must take the best strategy to bring the nation to parity with the world of nation states, or it would be a failed state. (5) No one has the right to take full control of the nation. We have to collaborate and share in mutual respect, and work together to accomplish a prosperous civil society. (6) The national representatives must always be ready for dialogue, negotiation, collaboration, and working together to build the nation for the betterment of all national members and the society at large. 

The new generation must adopt a communal sentiment, of collaboration. The young people must join together; they must group to vote for collective and national interests, making sure that leaders understand that they are not free to come, to create conflicts, fight, and waste the meager national resources, and not working together to make the nation better.

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By E.C. GRANMOUN

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Toussaint Must Be Crying In His Grave 210 Years Later

The dream of Toussaint Louverture, the architect of the liberty of Haiti, was to end slavery and keep the entire island of Hispaniola united as part of the French colony. However, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French emperor could not stand to see the Negro people free. He unleashed the mightiest naval forces of the moment to subdue Haiti. After the most atrocious struggle, the French forces capitulated. The Negro slaves won their liberty and their territory. However, Freedom did not bring unity in the new country. It brought faction instead, as the majority Negro population would have to perpetually continue to fight the minority Caucasian and Mulatto that would not recognize the Blacks as equal, to collaborate with them to form an environment of mutual respect and prosperity for all.

Now, it is 210 years after the Independence. Haiti  has remained a culture of division and strife that has produced a “Failed State”, as to the standard of the world of Nation States and of the general society. Today, it is a system of Globalization where all nations are, like, one big society, one big world. In this atmosphere, nations are seeking to come together and form partnerships, to work collaboratively within a giant economy to render life more adaptable. It is sad for Haiti. Haitians are still not able to unite with their own national brothers and sisters. Haitians are still chasing each other like animals in the wild field. Haitians are still not capable of understanding that as members of one nation, they have to respect each other and collaborate with each other to form a progressive Haitian society and to be and accepted member of the general society.

On the ground of Haiti, there is the imperialist force of the United Nations. They have been there since 2004 when American forces kidnapped Jean Bertrand Aristide at the approach of a civil guerrilla band, financed by Americans subjects and corrupted Haitian bourgeois. They are there because the Haitians have not been able to find a common ground as members of one nation to work and build a progressive Haitian society. To make matters worst, the current system of government has not been adherent to democratic principles. So, on the eve of the 210 years festivities, Haiti is found to be in a state of emergency due to poverty, hard life, repression, and elections that have been delayed for over 3 years. The leaders are blaming each other for the failure.

Once again, the Americans are there as referee. IRONIC. The American ambassador called the Haitian leaders into meeting. Not surprising! If people are not able to lead themselves, they have to have somebody putting them in line. The Haitians should learn by now. The Americans have a propaganda. “If you cannot defeat the enemy, you have to join him.” Haitians must start to take a new orientation. After 210 years of fighting among themselves, they  must finally realize that it is leading nowhere for anybody. Nobody has really won. The nation remains the butt of jokes; Haitian are not respected; the Haitian people are not wanted anywhere; and the leaders are like lower “animals” that the foreign nations always have to come to put in line and to throw little crumbs in their baskets, kuiy la.

The 210^th anniversary would be sadly looked upon, just like the bicentennial in 2004. There is too much discord among the leaders and the population in general. The country is in the middle of major civil disobedience. It could be better. If Haitians leaders should learn to cultivate the big vision, to respect, collaborate, communicate, and work together to build a nation for a better Haitian society, the nation would move out of the bestial nature, and the 220th anniversary would be joyful.

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By E.C. GRANMOUN

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Dialogue Should Be The Course of Action

As always, the country is being torn apart. The political groups are keeping distant from each other and want no collaboration. The so called leaders are accusing and blaming each other, but in reality, most want no serious discussion. The executive government is being accused of dictatorship, that cannot be disputed. There are no elections, and the president is waiting to govern by decree. The people have been protesting ceaselessly on the streets of the capital and other major cities in the country. We have an explosive situation on hands.

This is nothing new for Haiti. Throughout the history of the country, that’s generally the way it has been. Our people have been fighting among themselves and are not trying to accomplish anything of significance for the nation as a whole. We are still in a bestial stage, that we cannot unite with our brothers and sisters to work and develop a prosperous human society. Today, in the world of globalization, we should expect matters to be different. We should expect to be coming together, to be moving ahead. Too bad. It is not happening. We have the United Nations on the ground with a mission of stabilization. But, it appears that nothing is changing, and the past is going to continue haunting us for a very long time.

What do we do as members of such a decrepit nation? We don’t want our people to take the streets, protesting, and overthrowing government in place. We would prefer to collaborate with our leaders to work and build our nation. However, our leaders have failed us. They are not working. They are fighting against each other and cannot agree on anything. Very soon, the nation that is one of representation would be left with only the executive government, and the president as a king. We should say by this that the people are right to be upset and to take the streets to reclaim their rights. Still, we should not deter from our effort to bring the nation together. Do not cut heads and burn houses. The faction has been killing us for so long! We must strive now to turn to the right direction.

Dialogue should be the course of action. Even with a king Switmiki, dialogue would be better than the alternative. Of course it would be laughably upsetting for the nation to remain with only Martelly as ‘government’, and for all the posts to be filled with Martelly’s men. Yet, it would still be many times wiser to try to find a reasonable ground of negotiation. We would not discourage the people from protesting. They should always reclaim their rights. However, dialogue should remain the focus. We should not have a king Martelly. Haiti should not be going up in flame either.

It is unfortunate that the so called leaders have allowed the situation to touch this igniting point. Perhaps, this what the government was planning from the start. The people likewise remain with no choice than to protest. But, please keep in mind, dialogue, dialogue, dialogue.

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By E.C. GRANMOUN

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A Memorable Date In History

Liberty is the ultimate right and one of the most beautiful experiences of the human beings. The Christian concept says that God created the man in his image and granted him the freedom of living. The Haitian heroes who pioneered the liberty from mass slavery cried, it is either “freedom or death.” November 18, 1803 marked a decisive date in the struggle for the freedom of the Negro race and the liberty of all mankind. It is the date when the French military force of enslavement, the most formidable military of the moment, succumbed to the band of revolting slaves of Haiti and marked the end of institutional slavery of mankind.

Today, November 2014, a little over 200 years later, this date is much kept in the dark. Most Haitians are not aware of the importance of it; and, it generally not existed for the world at large. Yet, November 18 was the date when the enchained Negro race started to drop the yoke from its neck and the chain from its feet to never wear them again. In the Battle of Vertiere in Cap- Haitian, Haiti, the mighty naval forces of Bonapatre cried, enough! We give up.

It all started with the Negro General Toussaint Louvertre’s declaration of liberty from slavery for all in Haiti, in accord with the Declaration of the Rights of Man in France. Toussaint did not want Independence. He only proclaimed freedom for the slaves, as citizens of France. The colonial power could not consume the freedom for the Negroes. The dictator Napoleon Bonaparte deployed the largest naval forces ever, at the moment, to conquer the tiny island nation and return the Negroes into slavery. After much devastation, atrocities, treasons, diseases, deaths, and tragedies, the colonial forces met with the rebels in the Battle of Vertiere.

Legend has it that it was the most formidable battle. They started in the night of 17. They fought and slaughtering each other through the night and into the day of the 18. At a certain point in the mid afternoon, a General of Brigade named Capois Lamort, was advancing on his horse, and the animal was struck by bullets and fell down the ground; the General kept on moving ahead. Then, a bullet ripped up his hat from his head, and he brandished his sword, crying, “Keep moving ahead, keep moving ahead...” When the cruel French General Rochambeau saw that, he stopped the battle and commanded his troops to applaud the Negro General. Thereafter, the battle raged on, until the French capitulated in the middle of the night.

The important thing is, the French could no longer hold on their atrocious pursuit of the Negro race. They gave up; and the following days, they took up to the seas to whatever destinations that they could safely reach. At that point, all enslaved men and women of Saint Domingue or Haiti became free to never suffer the whip, the yoke, the chains, the rapes, and the evilness of the slave masters again.

Although it is true that Haiti has remained under much difficulty. The Haitians have yet to be unified from the slave system or mentality that had much divided them; there is still a great deal to celebrate. This struggle was not only for Haitians. It was for the whole Negro race and mankind at large. The liberty proclaimed by the Haitian Heroes gave courage to all those afflicted by slavery. It gave them hope. When we have Martin Luther King, Mandela, Obama; it is only the continuation of the seeds of freedom planted by Toussaint Louverture. Now, on 18 November 2014, 211 years later, the Haitians have only to continue building on this freedom. Our forefathers gave us the liberty. Now let us make it work for us!

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We Have To Learn To Live Together

At the moment, we have in Haiti what we may call a system of intolerance - Makout Versus Lavalas. Is it so bad that there are two opposing political forces in a country? No, it is  not. In fact, democracy is based on such a notion of different political weights to counterbalance fractious political positions. In the case of Haiti, however, Makout and Lavalas have remained more of obstructive entities rather than democratic power brokers. If Haiti is to move in the right direction, the political entities must look at each other as working partners. We must learn to live together.

How do we live together as one people anyway? We live together by unite and join forces to live and work as one nation, one people, to build a nation of prosperity for the whole. We have to start coming together and applying democratic principles, negotiating, collaborating, and advancing a progressive agenda. Makout and Lavalas do not have to be enemies. They have to be forces working together to balance the nation.

Some people may think, Makout has done too much wrong. Others may think Lavalas is not any better. Both could be true. However, what is important for us now is to not abide by the past, but to begin considering the best alternative to move ahead. And, how do we start? We must begin with our own selves, everybody, his or her own self; we have to take action. After all, what is Makout or Lavalas? Are they not some groups of individuals composing of us? Every Haitian must fit into one group, or some other lesser ones tearing the nation apart. What is important is that everyone starts considering how to join hands with each other for a better Haiti.

Haiti remains a too-divisive environment. You have the minority wealthy class versus the majority poor; the Mulatto versus the Blacks; the city dwellers versus the peasants; people from Port-au-prince versus the provinces; literates versus illiterates; people within the country versus the Diaspora; and you have all the religious conflicts. The fact is, we have to learn to live with all of them. It is a matter of taking strategies to incorporate and tolerate the others in our lives and our surroundings. (1) One of the first things Haitians need to do is to stop destroying government. The question of coup-d’etat, protestation, “cutting heads and burning houses” must stop. There should be enough tolerance to allow an administration to last its five years. Or, if an official or the government is outlawed, there should be some sort of judicial process – no coup-d’etat!

(2) The political forces must learn to tolerate each other, deal with each other, allow each other to participate, and allow the party in power to work. Again, there should be a judicial process to deal with parties that are out of the law. (3) The interest groups have to be fair. You may not like a certain group, but there should be a connecting point that could benefit all. We should reserve the right to bring others to justice when they are wrong; but, when they are right, we need to appreciate them and collaborate with them.

(4) Let us stop the fragmentation and start bringing the pieces together. We must recognize that we are all brothers and sisters under the Haitian flag, and we are condemned to live together according to the law of nature and of nation states. Therefore, please, let us come together and seek a common interest for all on our little territory on earth, that our 10 million brothers and sisters would ever be glued upon. Blacks, Mulattos, Whites, urbanites, peasants, port-au-princians, provincials, literates, illiterates, locals, Diasporas, all the religious groups; we are the ones who make the Haitian nation. And, if Haiti is to be better, it would take all of us. Each one of us must do our part to keep the nation working together for all of us. The next time you see another Haitian, don’t think of him as an adversary or something strange and isolated; think of him as somebody to collaborate,  work, and live with.

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By E.C. GRANMOUN

E.C. Granmoun is the Author of: "Bully: A Novel"  ebook, on amazon.com