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#5349: Re: #5326: Dorce on reconsidered post to Simidor (fwd)
From: LAKAT47@aol.com
In a message dated 10/18/2000 10:18:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, XXXXXXX
writes:
<< I've been unhappy with the List lately too -- all the freshness and
innocence
is gone now. There is some rehashing of things as new people enter, but
everything has been said, I think, and more words will make no difference at
all. I feel like someone watching a disaster, and turn my eyes away in shame
and horror. >>
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My friends, I have been listening to criticism of the tone and content on
this list for the past month or so with sadness. Haiti isn't sweetness and
light right now. We can't fiddle while Rome burns. It is impossible to
delight in flights of fancy while Haiti sinks further into the abyss. We are
polarized because Haiti is polarized. We despair because Haiti despairs. We
on the list are reflecting the chaos and disarray that is Haiti. We rehash
because we must......THERE IS NO INNOCENCE AND FRESHNESS IN HAITI so how can
there be here? I disagree that we talk in vain though. This is a very
difficult and troubled time for Haiti. We want instant change and that can't
be. Haiti is in transition and it is delicate and fragile. Without
vigilance, it can slide back to what it was. Too many good people have died
so that that wouldn't happen. So we can take a little unpleasantness on the
list I think. The worst thing we can do is lose hope; if they can keep it
alive in Haiti, we can do no less here. I end with a quote from a favorite
book (Dune):
"Hope can be the greatest weapon of a downtrodden people, or the greatest
enemy of those who are about to fail."
Dorce~ never give up, never, never, never