Cry, my beloved Haiti!
Your boat people who have resettled near Miami will send relief supplies, but never enough to heal your wound.
Bill Clinton “as he saw it” (Newsweek, year-end issue) mentioned clusters of global problems: natural disasters, virus spread and climate change.
There are some countries that seem to bear a greater burden than others in our interconnected world.
You are one of them.
Your fellow countrymen are not even Blacks in America: they don’t speak proper English. Many speak French.
Your city, Port Au Prince, bears the name of royalty, yet today, it’s an international relief zone.
First responders from Taiwan, China, Los Angeles are flying in. Hope you can recover your loved ones, even just for proper burial.
Cry, Haiti, cry. Because when the bell tolled, it’s tolled for me too. I used to live in LA for 18 years. So I know a little bit about earthquake, but not at 7.0 magnitude (and 6.9 after shocks). This is a time for international solidarity, and show time for goodness and decency. Let us rise to the occasion. Let us be human again.
Thang Nguyen 555 