20248: Pasoleil: Re: 20217: Stiddem: African Union Should Help Restore Aristide (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Pasoleil@aol.com

This is whole debate is becoming somewhat puerile?

Are we not dealing with what started as BLACK on BLACK violence?
and yet the focus seems to be that WHITE's are the problems
and that WHITE's should fix it by GIVING more money and or more arms
(American and French troupes)

I am baffled that (except for a few Corbetters who wrote) we don't seem to
think that we ARE responsible for our OWN mess and should concentrate on how to
fix our OWN mess with our OWN people (capable and honest Haitian men and women
 living within AND outside of Haiti)

Not the Africans (which African anyway?  its a HUGE continent, with diverse
people with diverse opinions on the issues!!!)
Just because they have black skin doesn't mean they have the solutions!

Just like the Blan  -White Men-  supposedly more "civilized" doesn't
necessarily have answers for us and for our ills, created by us after the proud
Independence?
or else  by some foreign involvement -for the most part- - with our
invitation or permission?
Paulette Anne Smith, Ph.D.
Tufts University