We All Have Failed You (Haiti)

Nous sommes tous coupable de ce qui se passe en Haïti maintenant, que ce soit par nos illusions ou par nos cupidités nous sommes tous coupable. Nous avons jugé bon de rester indifférent à la misère noire de ce pays .Ces haïtiens (intellectuels) me dégoutent ils me donnent envie de vomir, ils ne peuvent faire qu’une seule chose, critiquer. Vous vous appelez intellectuels, dites à quoi ca sert votre intelligence si vous ne pouvez même pas venir à l'aide de votre pays. Haïti se trouve plonger dans une misère noire, il est temps de prendre le chemin du progrès. Je ne vais pas ignorer que Monsieur Wyclef n’est pas un intellectuel, dites à l’exception d’un petit nombre, les intellectuels d’avant qu’est ce qu’ils ont fait pour Haïti? Je peux vous aider à répondre cette question, rien du tout. Si maintenant on se trouve dans l’obligation d’élire comme président un homme qui n’est pas digne de ce nom il faut comprendre qu’on est tous coupable.

WE ALL HAVE FAILED YOU

More than 200 years have passed since you have been liberated (country) from the chain of slavery by our brave ancestors. Dessalines, Toussaint and countless of others have fought to achieve 1804. Not one single word could describe their pride; with their chin upward facing the infinite sky (unbounded horizon) heroically they call themselves Haitians, the first black nation to call itself independent, free from the oppression of the west. With enmity they, our oppressors, brought upon us a dark cloud, we saw our darkest day, trying to defend what our ancestors earned courageously against all odds. Although we paid dearly for what many rivals of our independence called insubordination, we never stop fighting for a better tomorrow. We tried to our best knowledge to build a nation but like an animal affected by a fatal plague we were isolated. Years have passed, crisis after crisis, along the way we forgot our main purpose, Haiti. Corruption becomes our guide for a better tomorrow. Our constitution becomes a laughing matter, and those who chose and dared to embrace it were shot, it became a death sentence to seek for justice, to seek for equality, and fraternity. That union that once gave us our strength no longer exists. We all have betrayed you “ma patrie” whether it was by our bad judgment of character or by doing nothing to stop that cancerous corruption we all have failed you. Many of you have given up; many have left and never looked back.

We have betrayed you for burger kings and McDonald, KFC that can take us to our grave. We are chasing the American dream, what about the Haitian dream?

We need to hear that shell blowing again; we need to hear Makandal “neg maron” calling upon us for a last time.

The enemy we face now is more powerful, it is no longer the napoleon’s army. It is no longer the west. The enemy is within each and every one of us, we are our worse enemy. Our illusion blinds us. Stop believing in those “Candida bout manit”, we need to stop, we have to stop. We have been fooled for too long by those who call themselves patriots.  

I am calling you out now, all of you Haitians, if you cannot hear the agony of this nation then stop calling yourself Haitian.

A country that was once called the pearl of the Caribbean is now the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. We have been hit by so many natural disasters, in 2008 Leogane our small city located about 15km west of the capital was flooded many have lost their loved ones, many have lost their homes, and any bit of savings they had. I was saddened deep in my soul to see my sisters and brothers dying in the streets, some parts of me were gone with them. We were once a nation of pride, many of our singers and poets glorified all that in their songs and poetries, what happened to us, what happened to Haiti? How can we let our greed brings upon us such a destruction, we should not let that happen, we cannot let that happen. We have to fight we cannot stop, have we ever thought about what our grandchildren would be saying about us? I do I am ashamed

Schlegel Pierre