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#5165: Re: #5140: response to HUDICOURT #5117 (fwd)
From: LAKAT47@aol.com
In a message dated 09/25/2000 11:01:06 AM Pacific Daylight Time, JHUDICOURTB@a
ol.com writes:
<< You are right that there has been very little respect for life in Haiti
for the last 45 years. I believe that calling for respect for life is
therefore a very important call and it must take many forms. It's OK to
spit in the wind then if that is what you are calling my voice. I hope
someone gets disgusted by my spit and is shocked into thinking that
respecting life and preaching respect for life is every Haitians personal
responsability.
>>
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I wasn't calling your voice spitting in the wind, per se. But I WAS trying
to instill a little self reflection in you and others to see your possible
part in this tragedy. It is easy to look down on the rabble and say how
uncivilized they are, how unfit to decide their own future. But why are they
that way? Do you believe that given a chance they wouldn't be as educated as
you are? As wise in the ways of the world? They have been discounted,
devalued and dismissed as insignificant users of air and space. Necessary to
make the cogs move but a nuisance beyond that. Why, then, would they value
life? In truth, I think more majority class Haitians respect life than do
not, in the same incredible spirit that keeps them alive in hope when others
would just give up and die. They have little reason to, but still they
perservere. They are the heart and soul of Haiti. Without them, Haiti would
be an empty lambi shell. But you know what? I think I am spitting in the
wind now. ;)
sincerely,
Kathy Dorce~