Just curious.

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Mostly in Florida now.:angel:


lol. I hear they live in the mountains on private estates away from the masses.

lol. I hear they live in the mountains on private estates away from the masses.

that's what I was about to say too...the mountains...its a damn shame though...haiti dont have to be like that...but the same can be said for the Bahamian experience as well...compare over the hill to them lakeside homes...it makes no sense...a splash a paint and running water can help so many people.

some live here ...

Just curious.


petionville is the beverly hills suburb of port-au-prince, where many of the wealthy live. my old roommate from college grew up there.

petionville is the beverly hills suburb of port-au-prince, where many of the wealthy live. my old roommate from college grew up there.

did she feel bad about growing up rich relative to her haitian brothers and sisters in abject poverty?

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man you see Little Haiti?

did she feel bad about growing up rich relative to her haitian brothers and sisters in abject poverty?


at first, no. we had some surreal conversations about the situation. she and her friends (an entire group of haitians had come to this school) really thought that setting up a huge video screen in the middle of the sisal fields so that workers could watch soccer was 'taking care' of them.

once she experienced college and other perspectives, though, she went back to haiti a changed person, and fought to bring real economic reform to the country, going so far as to really piss off her friends and relatives, most of whom stayed behind in the u.s. and france to enjoy their winnings.

Haiti has always been a place of the wealthy abusing the poor.It is so sad,I mean it shares an island wit a country that is so far ahead economically and socially. Sad to say,but Haiti is like too many African countries,that treat their people the same way. How can it happen here in the Western Hemisphere and be allowed,is beyond me? Mr. Bush do you hear me? this is truly a just cause,I know there is no oil or financial gain here for your cronies,but this needs to change!:hammer:

did she feel bad about growing up rich relative to her haitian brothers and sisters in abject poverty?


In college, I also had a roommate who was Haitian and she did feel guilty. She tried to hide the fact that they were rich, she eventually talked about their wealth, I mean the girl had private drivers to send her to school. Back then I had no idea but she opened up my eyes to Haiti.

Haiti has always been a place of the wealthy abusing the poor.It is so sad,I mean it shares an island wit a country that is so far ahead economically and socially. Sad to say,but Haiti is like too many African countries,that treat their people the same way. How can it happen here in the Western Hemisphere and be allowed,is beyond me? Mr. Bush do you hear me? this is truly a just cause,I know there is no oil or financial gain here for your cronies,but this needs to change!:hammer:


have you been to either the dominican republic OR haiti? the dominicans don't deserve any props for their extreme wealthy/poor divide, either. both countries' economies bend and sway to the u.s. decisions of the day, and have since the 1930s.

don't let anyone kid you, there's a huge financial gain underway by the levi-strausses, tommy hilfigers, disneys, u.s major league baseball leagues of the day ... it's just that we're closer to haiti and the DR, and live its reality and after-effect. the situation's not that much different from that of american samoa, where kids and women work for peanuts, sewing the clothes that get sold at walmart and target.

the recent widely-publicized gain in the u.s. minimum wage that made the news recently very specifically excluded the workers of american samoa ... and that exclusion was supported by democrats and republicans alike. everyone wants a free lunch, yet no one wants to deal with the social aftermath.

have you been to either the dominican republic OR haiti? the dominicans don't deserve any props for their extreme wealthy/poor divide, either. both countries' economies bend and sway to the u.s. decisions of the day, and have since the 1930s.
don't let anyone kid you, there's a huge financial gain underway by the levi-strausses, tommy hilfigers, disneys, u.s major league baseball leagues of the day ... it's just that we're closer to haiti and the DR, and live its reality and after-effect. the situation's not that much different from that of american samoa, where kids and women work for peanuts, sewing the clothes that get sold at walmart and target.
the recent widely-publicized gain in the u.s. minimum wage that made the news recently very specifically excluded the workers of american samoa ... and that exclusion was supported by democrats and republicans alike. everyone wants a free lunch, yet no one wants to deal with the social aftermath.
As a matter of fact,I have been to the Dominican.I did not feel their standard of living is close to ours,but I would put it on par wit Venezuela or Costa Rica,"other places I have been." Your point is well taken,but while I was in the Dominican I did not witness any beheadings or even any crime for that matter.I'll admit I have not been to Haiti,but I have seen "on TV news'" and been told firsthand of many such atrocities there. In fact a very good Bahamian born Haitian friend of mine has related most of such to me,vowing he will never return there to visit family.:)

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lmao...

Believe me there are strong, powerful, and weathly Haitians that live here in the Bahamas.

My best friend of almost 20yrs. is my testament to that. His father, whose Haitian, is one of the most weathiest men I know. They live is a A-class area in New Providence with scores of diplomatic personnel on the same street.

Just by being in the House I met distinguished Haitian diplomats, many of them still in Haitian politics (living in Haiti), and others from the United States, England, and France.

That opened my eyes, that not all Haitians suffer the same plight here in the Bahamas. And by knowing that from a very early age, I never engaged in Haitian jokes, or belittling them because most Bahamians only judge people by what they see on TV and think that all are the same, but it's not.