tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post6289455602759044775..comments2017-01-31T08:25:39.314-08:00Comments on Such a Strong Word: Injustice.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108745927328157noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-47283047526766032832010-05-17T06:07:50.139-07:002010-05-17T06:07:50.139-07:00i thank you for your efforts and the aid to our co...i thank you for your efforts and the aid to our country. To state that Haitian politians are dipping their hands in the cooky jar is just one sided. The international community though they are our only help are also using Haiti as a cash cow. Most of the aid you mentioned in this letter talks of donated suplies and volunteered time. the millions of dollars that are quoted to have been donated to Haiti go to buy, WHAT?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-34028469112768448272010-05-15T08:22:46.431-07:002010-05-15T08:22:46.431-07:00It is most fortunate for these people that you wer...It is most fortunate for these people that you were able to return for them Guin.Dana Wildehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17202772670874064660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-50096450928942317812010-03-30T10:45:06.381-07:002010-03-30T10:45:06.381-07:00Thank you for sharing this experience, as hard as ...Thank you for sharing this experience, as hard as it was. I just returned from my second trip to Haiti and we witnessed the first food distribution in Delmas 75-nine weeks post quake!!! People are starving. We treated so many with severe malnutrition, parasitic infection, scabies, dehydration. The 1500 people we saw in 7 days was overwhelming, but we applied a bandaid of care as best we could.Sharon Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-65650807669649742462010-03-23T02:05:08.605-07:002010-03-23T02:05:08.605-07:00Dear Barbie,
I met Kim and Patrick in Haiti and f...Dear Barbie,<br /><br />I met Kim and Patrick in Haiti and follow their blog ever since. That's how I learned of your blog. My husband and I organize a NGO for haitian children and try to do some good, too. Your Injustice-entry I translated (and had to shorten it a bit, too, sorry) for my german ngo-blog. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and - even more - for your work right now in Haiti, all the best from Germany, <br /><br />heike (www.haiti-kinderhilfe.blogspot.com)Stephan Krausehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18353199373556083280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-30998713889744087722010-03-20T09:06:23.077-07:002010-03-20T09:06:23.077-07:00I have written my senator. I pray it helps and wi...I have written my senator. I pray it helps and wish you, the little girl, and Haitians the best, all of which are in my prayers.<br /><br />MarianneMarianne Z from SLC UTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-36579149917943584942010-03-19T23:57:54.001-07:002010-03-19T23:57:54.001-07:00How can people still be surprised that there is a ...How can people still be surprised that there is a correlation between societal ills and physical ills??<br /><br />I feel ill. Societally or physically, I'm not sure which. But I feel ill.<br /><br />The human soul is closed. Please come back in the morning when it cares. Maybe.Jeffrey Holtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15596636987840921745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-44419605440890000662010-03-19T21:05:54.077-07:002010-03-19T21:05:54.077-07:00Wow.
Lots of people have said the other things I ...Wow.<br /><br />Lots of people have said the other things I might have said...<br /><br />... so I will just say this instead...<br /><br />... I have been, am now, and always will be proud to be<br />your friend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-2317085415048006492010-03-19T05:44:35.519-07:002010-03-19T05:44:35.519-07:00That is the way it is and has been for the 24 year...That is the way it is and has been for the 24 years I have been here. My sincere thanks for your detailed account. It is no fun to read or experience but it is happening everyday here. I hope this post falls into somebody's hands who may be able to be an advocate for Peace and Love.John and Jodie Ackermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151259764608812573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-60210058951892152112010-03-18T11:38:53.946-07:002010-03-18T11:38:53.946-07:00Barbie,
Thank you for your writing. Thank you fo...Barbie,<br /><br />Thank you for your writing. Thank you for keeping my window to Haiti open. You are doing what I can't wait to return to Haiti to do. Not only are your descriptions honest, raw, beautiful and unapologetic, you are providing me with great information on what to expect whenever we get free to return. Thank you.Kim and Patrick Bentrotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06937771449792923043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-33271034832257659822010-03-17T23:51:12.763-07:002010-03-17T23:51:12.763-07:00Hi... unbelievable your experience. My husband (f...Hi... unbelievable your experience. My husband (family doctor) and myself (social worker) - both from Brazil, but leaving in FL for the past 20 years) started a NON Profit Org, called People For Haiti... our goal, it to continue to send medical relief teams to help people of Haiti!! I am leaving next week with another team, and I am sure will experience some kind of injustice.... the best we can do, is to continue to care for those people that have NOTHING... and all they need now, is people that care!! great job... I may see you in Haiti :-)People for Haiti (by Leo and Guiga Vieira)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09362636772728137435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-56398772795474277712010-03-17T22:15:21.993-07:002010-03-17T22:15:21.993-07:00Oh yeah, the old white passport. I hated it and us...Oh yeah, the old white passport. I hated it and used it repeatedly as a way to get people medical care, food, water, schooling, papers. And had it thrown in my face often enough. It's a sad state of affairs. Much sadder if we don't respond.<br /><br />I too will pass this along tonight.Godsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11910998593390089289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-23970414130943856102010-03-17T16:52:15.829-07:002010-03-17T16:52:15.829-07:00Just contacted my congressional rep and both senat...Just contacted my congressional rep and both senators.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-63690025609591511402010-03-17T10:55:41.662-07:002010-03-17T10:55:41.662-07:00I am thinking there may be a silver lining in the ...I am thinking there may be a silver lining in the earthquake as it has opened the eyes of many to the problems. Thanks for sharing and opening our eyes!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-16488265874090715362010-03-17T09:55:51.369-07:002010-03-17T09:55:51.369-07:00I'm "enjoying" your blog, if that...I'm "enjoying" your blog, if that's really the right word. Ever since I visited Haiti last year, I find myself outraged on a daily basis. I now try to find ways to spread the word, to let people (Americans especially) know what life is like in Haiti. I hope you don't mind that I'm sharing this post on one of my blogs - it's such a real and raw description of what it means to be in Haiti.Cheriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06661705838389866476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-12550625636155329592010-03-17T09:21:03.867-07:002010-03-17T09:21:03.867-07:00Tears are not enough and as I wipe them away I pra...Tears are not enough and as I wipe them away I pray that with enough voices and action we can begin to elicit change.<br /><br />We cannot just go back to our comfortable lives and forget. We have to be vigilant and take stands against injustice.<br /><br />Read Aaron B. Brown's incite filled post above. <br /><br />We must end this shame, for our children, for ALL the children!!!Ann Elizabeth Loveringnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-27145760592852764462010-03-17T07:01:55.356-07:002010-03-17T07:01:55.356-07:00Barbie,
Haiti was not like that, Haitians use to b...Barbie,<br />Haiti was not like that, Haitians use to be very concern people. I am so sorry but not all Haitians are the same, we still have good people.<br />That is why i believe God has always blessed Haiti,imagine the hearthquake had happen at 11:00 am, how many more would have died,<br />I am happy that the child is alive <br />and we will fight those devil minded,corrupted people with our strongest weapon which is PRAYER<br />tahnks again<br />a grateful haitianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-87449956295172466742010-03-16T23:01:57.737-07:002010-03-16T23:01:57.737-07:00With every day that passes I get more angry at the...With every day that passes I get more angry at the way the people of Haiti have been and are treated -- by their government, by the "elite," by foreign powers, including the U.S. Until the people of the United States and the world stand as one voice against injustice, nothing will change. When that united voice becomes a roar that can no longer be ignored, then and only then is there a chance for change for the better. I've had, seen and heard enough. I'm ready to stand up and roar. Are you?<br /><br />By the way, every message I send to the Bush-Clinton Fund is replied to with a robot form letter that thanks me for my "suggestion." Suggeston, hell! I want action!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-19507390037571380172010-03-16T21:57:28.222-07:002010-03-16T21:57:28.222-07:00unbelievable. I tell you what Barbie, next time y...unbelievable. I tell you what Barbie, next time you are in this situation, take that Iphone of yours and record it and than send it to CNN. I bet things would be exposed to the US on what is going on in Haiti. I know this is not the first I have heard of this, but really, a child? good god! DawnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-18999546032287383002010-03-16T20:46:11.130-07:002010-03-16T20:46:11.130-07:00Forwarded your blog to President Clinton's fou...Forwarded your blog to President Clinton's foundation. The injustice brings me to tears!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-14997181544477976962010-03-16T17:37:48.480-07:002010-03-16T17:37:48.480-07:00I hate to say this...but this 'mentality' ...I hate to say this...but this 'mentality' of people not giving a crap with regards to severe medical emergencies is not just in Haiti...other West Indian islands as well. Jamaica being one of them. I live it.I know...<br />We are all just a step away from HAiti. Had this happened anywhere in the Caribbean (EQ) similar results would have been seen. These stories expose it. I pray the child survives-although I wondered why really they sent her away to begin with...Vanessanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-34811098467361774262010-03-16T17:09:44.816-07:002010-03-16T17:09:44.816-07:00Unfortunately this is business as usual in Haiti, ...Unfortunately this is business as usual in Haiti, the white, light skinned, wealthy and powerful get everything they need and more, while the black, poor and dark skinned are powerless and without voice in the government. There is no democracy in Haiti, representative or otherwise, the people are dictated to by whoever has the guns and the money. <br /><br />20 million people on the island of Hispaniola, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, 11 million of which live in poverty, abject poverty, many of the poorest people subsisting on rice, beans and green bananas and nothing else. Another 6 million living in moderate poverty, leaving about 3 million people who would qualify as lower middle-class to middle-class by Western standards most of them living in the DR, and between the two countries maybe 200,000 individuals hold the majority of the wealth, land, power and control over a vast island and its peoples. Few if any of them live on the island, most enjoy lives of opulence in Europe or South America, their identities protected and shielded by the money they keep in Switzerland the Caymans and Monaco. A prime example of capitalism without regulation or rule of law to keep it in check, the very definition of capitalist exploitation run amok. Some would turn the whole world into such a place.<br /><br /> Since the 16th century the island has been creating wealth, beginning with sugar cultivation, a sea of wealth manufactured with an ocean of blood, first the blood of indigenous peoples, then the blood of African slaves, blood that created the wealth that is the very foundation of some of Europe's richest families. The island of Hispaniola is a shame of the old world, the dirty secret that no one talks about, and no one remembers.<br /><br />Haiti today is the shame of the Western Hemisphere for it is our nations who are responsible for allowing this travesty to continue unchecked in modern times, 500 years of bad karma flows from the island and until the people have governments and leadership who stand in representation of them, fight for them and give them justice, security, dignity and liberty, the shame remains upon all our heads. Endless shame, nothing but shame and blood and death.Aaron B. Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01546607860268255593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-49139711705582545832010-03-16T16:35:20.219-07:002010-03-16T16:35:20.219-07:00This comes as no surprise. For change to occur, pe...This comes as no surprise. For change to occur, people must speak out and apathy must cease. There are millions of dollars pouring in to Haiti, not to mention a steady stream of volunteers. This is not the time for greed to prevail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-33311661685717953432010-03-16T15:02:15.945-07:002010-03-16T15:02:15.945-07:00Barbie, thank you and heartline for your continuo...Barbie, thank you and heartline for your continuous fight! I am so angry and furious that they can control human lives without regard of outcomes. I think and pray for all of you daily. We will continue to support your fight! Blessings to all of you!Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01332908778495151019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-85084416769365060612010-03-16T14:20:04.043-07:002010-03-16T14:20:04.043-07:00I have sent your post out on Facebook to everyone ...I have sent your post out on Facebook to everyone I know. The Haitian government (I hesitate to dignify them with the word) must be held accountable. Haitians deserve so much better than to be treated like dirt by their own leaders.<br />Keep up your excellent reporting; you are doing a great service in so many ways.<br />Gramma RollingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843764364933546114.post-69493759722675003782010-03-16T14:12:55.864-07:002010-03-16T14:12:55.864-07:00Thanks for sharing. Im glad the baby made it! Thi...Thanks for sharing. Im glad the baby made it! This may be new to you but this is how people have been living in Haiti for over 20 years now. It just gets worse through the years. A friend of mines mother died because she lost to much blood when she fell and hit her head. They rushed her to the hospital but the guards wouldnt open the gate because of a political order. My friends family is from French and Spanish decent. They still didnt open. They did not open that gate for you becuase you were white. If anything it was because you were foreign and they know what your doing here(help). I am white and have lived all my life in Haiti, believe me I dont get into restricted areas easier then anyone else unless a bride is given, its actually harder. I get pulled over and get searched because im white. I got arrested cause I was white once. There are even official laws that were put in effect that target white or working class people. This is Haiti...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com