13814: Saint-Vil - Blessed be Marguerite Laurent for her powerful "Little Girl" (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Jean Saint-Vil <jafrikayiti@hotmail.com>

“I saw you little girl, on CNN
Yearning for what is forbidden by US might.
Getting clobbered, shrunk back into the periphery,crushed in your Sunday
best.

You won’t understand, I know.
But listen again, carefully now, little girl:
You must not get safe harbor in the USA.
That would encourage others like you.
They would flood the Florida shores.
They might get an education here in America and return to rebuild Haiti.

They may even wish to exercise their basic rights at home in Haiti
to the detriment of American companies, international funding agencies,
NGO’s, US Aid organizations and other such profiteers.
How then could these international entities, now masturbating on your Black
pain, sustained endlessly by US-manufactured Haitian fratricide...
persevere?

They cornered your birthright little girl, long ago.
And God forbid, little Haitian girls like you should grow up
and refuse to be cowed and shrunken in a non-participatory democracy,
and reach to create a new world where you’re not forever underpaid or
working as someone’s maid.

Even when they come in peace you might have to vie with the white settlers
to name yourself, represent yourself, the country of your birth, the world
you see.

God forbid you get paid more then 40 cents a day for making necessities
folks in Florida and Washington must have for their families.
God forbid they suddenly come across you in a boardroom, educated in your
own culture and history, articulate, multi-tasking while rocking your baby
on one hip and sharing your many other God-given blessings globally– God
forbid!

I saw you little girl, on CNN
hanging in the air by one arm
over the side of an overloaded with hopes Haitian boat...”

Excerpt of “ An Open Letter To The Little Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress By
Marguerite Laurent, author of Red Black and Moonlight” ,

See, the entire masterpiece and the numerous replies it generated on the
"Let's Talk" forum of www.windowsonhaiti.com

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Jafrikayiti
«Depi nan Ginen bon nèg ap ede nèg!»
http://www.i-port.net/sd-in-j/



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