13716: Jhudicourtb:Nekita's nasty stuff about other Haitians (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: JHUDICOURTB@aol.com

Nekita says:
"I am thinking of how Haitians back stab, undermine one another in the work
place and  churches when there are white  missionaries. Haitians will do
anything to look good at the eyes of the "blan" who most of them don't even
see them as human beings.
The blan priest doesn't want to. He even manages to divide visionaries with
the average poorly educated Haitians who are his  primary  entourage.
Haitians agree with him.
The colonial mentality is everywhere."

This is what I think about this: You are Haitian, you describe Haitians in a
negative way.  You also have disparaging remarks for white religious people.
Both types of  remarks are may show misjudgement based on race and culture.
You are saying that poorly educated people in your church agree with the
white priest and not with you.  Maybe the best solution is to find another
place to do what you want to do and leave those who want to follow the priest
or pastor alone.  Uneducated Haitian people tend to have as much wisdom (if
not more) in their choices as educated ones.  Because a group of people does
not think or act the way you want them to, you should not base your opinion
on their race and culture.
If Haiti and Haitians want respect, we need to start finding the positive
traits and extraordinary qualities of our people and culture.  We also need
to show respect for others.  I think it is terrible that some of us Haitians
want to describe "back stabbing" and using poor judgement as cultural traits
of Haitians.  I think that most of us are actually honest hard-working people
who do the best we can with the means provided to us by our environment.
Most of us are not interested in back-stabbing and gaining favor with
religious authorities.  Only those in search of power or profit could be
interested in destroying their competition.  Most of us just want to get by
while minding our own business.