now they`re using corpses as roadblock

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sukuna</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">maybe this disaster is what will bring out the best in human nature and we will see brother helping brother and all that stuff. </div></div>
you right. I remember when less money was in the family, so much sharing and caring but after the economy picked up it was every man for himself </div></div>

Haiti is already a very caring society for a country in turmoil there isn't as much violent street crime as you would expect and there is extraordinary cooperation.

The problem is they rely on exclusively magico-religious nonsense to order their lives, pay cult like deference to their leaders (especially most, inept and bloody) and the country has become such a basket case that it would be very difficult for outsiders to sort out until the Haitians come to their collective senses.....It is a bit like Jamaica!

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: H_O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">im wondering when there going to start eating one another </div></div>

wow you're really making some statements which raises the eyebrow...
these people have suffered a tragedy;
you guys should ease up on the 'savage blacks' imagery

[Marilyn]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Natral</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have always thought of the haitians as a corrupted,ignorant set of people driven more by religious mumbo jumbo rather than common sense,but I can also now add uncivilised and stupid to the list.

Damn fools,the first place they set up a refugee camp was on the tarmac of the only airport,preventing aid from being able to land. </div></div>Newt, Many of these same kinds of stories were coming out of the dome during Katrina...many of which they now say were not true.

Whatever your opinion about Haitians, here is one thing that is true. They are currently a people much in neded of world help.

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Leddih</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Natral</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Damn fools, </div></div>
Do you know Haiti? Do you know any Haitians living in Haiti? Allow me to introduce you to one. As Chimamanda Adichie teaches us: there's danger in a single story. How many youngsters like the one in the following video is Vybz Kartel's dancehall Jamaica (another single story) producing ? Well here is even another single story, please watch this video: You Tube - 'Hard to be Any Age in Haiti' <object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yCEz19DPg3A"></param> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yCEz19DPg3A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"> </embed></object> </div></div>


some of these guys still falling for the divide &amp; conquer tricks

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Few people can understand Haitian society even <span style="font-weight: bold">before</span> the earthquake
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Natral</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Damn fools, the first place they set up a refugee camp was on the tarmac of the only airport,preventing aid from being able to land.</div></div>
All I can say to this throwaway comment is: Desperate times call for desperate actions and, I might add, this 'damn fool' action was not too far from the Katrina debacle .

When I visited Port-au-Prince in the 1980s, I remember thinking 'What a chaotic place!' In the taxi to our hotel we - four Jamaican social research types traveling from Kingston - passed by a dead woman by the side of the road. She had just been hit by a car, her body lying there while the car driver and others quarreled about who was right and who was wrong. We were stunned.

Before our trip to Haiti, our UWI professors had warned us that we will see mothers bathing their babies in gutter water. We scoffed at such exaggeration. But it was no stretch of the truth - when we walked around Marche de Fer, we witnessed a woman bathing her baby in the gutter water around the market We saw equally horrible incidents and other conditions that were way out of our sphere of experience and none of us lived sheltered lives growing up in Kingston!

Today in the Washington, DC area, I know many Haitians, a few are good friends. Haiti is not a society that is easy to understand and therefore should not be easily dismissed.


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some people say things about jamaica too

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">some people say things about jamaica too </div></div> Took Haiti 200 years it has taken us 38 years to dismankle civilized Jamaica.

[X]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">some people say things about jamaica too </div></div> Took Haiti 200 years it has taken us 38 years to dismankle civilized Jamaica.
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huh??
this the same haiti that was in economic and social shambles before the earthquake?
the same haiti that was so bad there are refugee commuities of haitians in sections of Jamaica?
The same haiti that had been ruled by dictators, invaded, had its leader exiled?? all before the earthquake.

kinda defeat the purpose a di expression of opinion when its nowhere near reality.

As bad as it is in Jamaica, it nowhere near what was happening in Haiti before the quake..

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: xKs</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As bad as it is in Jamaica, it nowhere near what was happening in Haiti before the quake.. </div></div>

Jamaica defaulted on its local bonds/loans yesterday.
If the Government Debt Swap Initiative does not work we will default on all our loans and basically we will have not way to borrow fix one pot hole in Jamaica, much less buy fuel, food, medicine, etc.

[X]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: xKs</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As bad as it is in Jamaica, it nowhere near what was happening in Haiti before the quake.. </div></div>

Jamaica defaulted on its local bonds/loans yesterday.
If the Government Debt Swap Initiative does not work we will default on all our loans and basically we will have not way to borrow fix one pot hole in Jamaica, much less buy fuel, food, medicine, etc. </div></div>
nuh worry, we got Gordon &quot;Butch&quot; Stewart and we got Air Jama...

[Ja. Jewel]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: H_O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">all this talk of eating people making me hungry
when my wife come home im going to eat her </div></div>

YOU ARE SICK! , and I don't mean that in the slang way...it's not what you DO, it's what you CHAT about doing!!

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: xKs</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> nuh worry, we got Gordon &quot;Butch&quot; Stewart and we got Air Jama...
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LOL Butch still leff but Air Jamaica gone the way of the birds!

[Ja. Jewel]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Leddih</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Natral</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Damn fools, </div></div>
Do you know Haiti? Do you know any Haitians living in Haiti? Allow me to introduce you to one. As Chimamanda Adichie teaches us: there's danger in a single story. How many youngsters like the one in the following video is Vybz Kartel's dancehall Jamaica (another single story) producing ? Well here is even another single story, please watch this video: You Tube - 'Hard to be Any Age in Haiti' <object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yCEz19DPg3A"></param> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yCEz19DPg3A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"> </embed></object> </div></div>


some of these guys still falling for the divide &amp; conquer tricks

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If you take a good look at the girl in this video, it looks to me like she has braces on her teeth.....she is definately from the ruling class....her life, ouside of this earthquake, id probably pretty good....why would she want to leave??

She is not one of the poor downtrodden folks living on $2US a day!

[Tuff Gong]

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[quote=Ja. JewelIf you take a good look at the girl in this video, it looks to me like she has braces on her teeth.....she is definately from the ruling class....her life, ouside of this earthquake, id probably pretty good....why would she want to leave??

She is not one of the poor downtrodden folks living on $2US a day! [/quote]

I just watched the video after reading your comments.
I don't know if the girl is from the <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">ruling class</span> or not, i can say though not many children of any age desire to leave their homeland no matter what. Most kids are not responsible for their own welfare so they don't have the cares and fears of adult even in the faces of death and destruction.

In the 70s when there was blood on the streets many kids got up at 7:00 AM and either walked to or took the bus to school. As long as children are not been harmed it very likely that they will continue to live and enjoy life as they can. My brothers, sisters and i did, just as most of the kids that were born and raised in the our neighbourhood.

Of course there were, in other neighbourhoods, a few 10 years old shooting and burning other folks homes, I don't know what their thoughts were, but I imagine that they were too young to even think about going to another place

[H_O]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ja. Jewel</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: H_O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">all this talk of eating people making me hungry
when my wife come home im going to eat her </div></div>

YOU ARE SICK! , and I don't mean that in the slang way...it's not what you DO, it's what you CHAT about doing!! </div></div>Settle down. it was a joke.

[britisha]

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Si wha HO start?