#3310: Haitian orphan's story draws no crowds: Gill replies

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

From:drgill@cdinter.net

no one will care about Sophonie.......simply because Haiti has never learned
how to deal with the United States......

how to arouse public opinion.........how to get sympathy for a small child
like Sophonie, for there are many like her, and not just from Haiti......

i am constantly amazed that Haitian-Americans dont seem to "get it" in terms
of how to get public support.......i mean, the methods are not secret and
there are certainly enough H-Americans in the US to have developed political
clout long ago......

i personally worked with two such groups, some who lived here, and some in
Haiti.....and, acted as a consultant on such matters......yet, i was faced
with the over-riding attitude that (a) it was impossible or (b) no one in
the US will support us.....

the attitude toward Sophonie is understandable.......most Americans are
deluged thru the daily media with disasters, mayhem, murder, yellow
journalism, etc......

to get attention, and she certainly deserves it, one must know how to work
the system, just as Castro does.....