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A Plea to the Haitian Diaspora
Diaspora, we are calling on YOU to return home in order to assume YOUR social obligation toward us, toward the country, and against the mismanagement and the degradation of our core values.
Returning home does not mean that YOU must pack YOUR bags to return to Haiti. We know YOU have obligations toward the country that respects YOUR rights as immigrants. It means that YOU are taking too long to invest YOUR ideas, skills or whatever has YOU into the reconstruction of YOUR homeland.
It means that YOU are taking too long to voice YOUR opinions and YOU are definitively taking too darn long to advocate for we, the locals, who are left with unproductive governments that are having difficulties positioning themselves as authority figures, the International that dictates, orders, and regulates, and a harem of NGOs that portrays us as beggars, illiterates, uncivilized, etc.
The longer YOU stay out; the more grounds YOU are giving them to treat us like red-haired children. Red-aired children we are because we are defenseless and powerless and we have nobody to “walk the walk and to talk the talk” for us.
YOU amuse YOURSELVES saying that we are resilient. How can we be resilient if we own nothing to help us recover? Have YOU taken the time to check out the definition of “resilient”? Resilient means “being able to weather tribulation without cracking.” We are telling YOU right now that we had lost the knack and the strength to stand up on our feet a decade ago and we are cracking in many small pieces. If YOU wait too long to return, nothing will be left of us when YOU finally return or if YOU ever return.
We need more than YOU waving the Haitian flag to show the world that YOU are proud to be Haitians. Don’t only show YOUR pride; act YOUR pride by putting YOUR best foot forward.
We need more than YOU transferring money to us and we are tired that YOU screen our calls whenever YOU don’t have money to send to us.
It is 2012, we are still alone and we need YOU now. JUST GET here before we become the International’s b#@$%. YOUR return is long overdue. GET HERE NOW!!!
Bobb Q Rousseau
Returning home does not mean that YOU must pack YOUR bags to return to Haiti. We know YOU have obligations toward the country that respects YOUR rights as immigrants. It means that YOU are taking too long to invest YOUR ideas, skills or whatever has YOU into the reconstruction of YOUR homeland.
It means that YOU are taking too long to voice YOUR opinions and YOU are definitively taking too darn long to advocate for we, the locals, who are left with unproductive governments that are having difficulties positioning themselves as authority figures, the International that dictates, orders, and regulates, and a harem of NGOs that portrays us as beggars, illiterates, uncivilized, etc.
The longer YOU stay out; the more grounds YOU are giving them to treat us like red-haired children. Red-aired children we are because we are defenseless and powerless and we have nobody to “walk the walk and to talk the talk” for us.
YOU amuse YOURSELVES saying that we are resilient. How can we be resilient if we own nothing to help us recover? Have YOU taken the time to check out the definition of “resilient”? Resilient means “being able to weather tribulation without cracking.” We are telling YOU right now that we had lost the knack and the strength to stand up on our feet a decade ago and we are cracking in many small pieces. If YOU wait too long to return, nothing will be left of us when YOU finally return or if YOU ever return.
We need more than YOU waving the Haitian flag to show the world that YOU are proud to be Haitians. Don’t only show YOUR pride; act YOUR pride by putting YOUR best foot forward.
We need more than YOU transferring money to us and we are tired that YOU screen our calls whenever YOU don’t have money to send to us.
It is 2012, we are still alone and we need YOU now. JUST GET here before we become the International’s b#@$%. YOUR return is long overdue. GET HERE NOW!!!
Bobb Q Rousseau
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