did anyone just see CNN live? Haitians marching single file, singing, in demonstration

[zazen]

That's f-ing incredible.

I'm in tears.

[Jennicut]

1. Yes, I just saw that too. These people have been through so much and

yet they are showing that they are incredible, resilient people.

[Dappleganger]

2. On Anderson Cooper's show last night

you could hear the MEN singing in the night, it was wonderful!! Haitiens are so full of joy and life, they are very strong. I also loved how he highlighted the Haitien's ability to put together tools very quickly to try to dig people out, they are quite inventive with even the most meager resources. They don't quit!

[rapturedbyrobots]

5. WOW

exotic people of color are so full of life and happy. and they can use TOOLS!

sorry...not trying to pick a fight...this is a serious time for haiti. they need our support and best wishes.

but be aware of when your praise comes off as patronizing.

[blondeatlast]

10. Celebrating hope in a sea of despair, disease, and death is patronizing?

Dude, political correctness is a tool invented by the RW. Most DUers are well aware of the fact.

Lighten up. there is life and hope amid devastation. Pardon me for celebrating.

[Dappleganger]

16. Exactly!

[rapturedbyrobots]

20. i celebrate with you!

we can and should celebrate each other's humanity...the suffering and the joys of it all.

but we can do that with being amazed that they are improvising tools. and that MEN are singing in the streets! it is a beautiful thing, but these are not extraordinary events, just the normal response of a people in crisis. unfortunately, their suffering is all to real and ordinary in this world. we shouldn't need the media hyped drama of this tragedy to want to sympathize, and support haitians or any other battered people.

when you celebrate something as extraordinary, you reveal your assumptions of what is or should be ordinary.

much love to haiti and all those there helping out, and all those supporting from afar!

[blondeatlast]

21. Earthquakes of this magnitude ARE extraordinary. We are celebrating the human

spirit, not that they are "improvising tools."

[rapturedbyrobots]

22. from reply #2

to which i originally replied:

'I also loved how he highlighted the Haitien's ability to put together tools very quickly'

they are 'strong' and 'full of joy and life'

yes...this is an extraordinary tragedy but we can talk about it without trying to exoticize and essentialize the people who are involved. they are real people...normal people....and they need help from other real, normal people. let's focus on that.

[zazen]

23. I dunno--I think our respect is as much about our disappointment in our own culture

But your reminder to not exoticize/romanticize is duly noted.

[RaleighNCDUer]

14. I know what you are saying, but the post you replied to has a good point -

these are people who have so little to begin with, and most of that is destroyed, and they are improvising ways to make do. They've done the same after each devastating hurricane. They do it because they have to, and they know they can't rely on anyone else showing up to do it with heavy equipment and power tools.

Frankly, many people would just give up. You have to admire their fortitude.

[Dappleganger]

15. You could not be more mistaken

Your sarcasm is duly noted...read all of my other posts on Haiti before being so damned judgmental. Don't you tell me what they need, not only have I been there but lived there for three months and worked among them.

Once again, the DU armchair quarterbacking strikes again!

[rapturedbyrobots]

17. that's awesome

i hope you can make it back sometime and help out with the recovery.

like i said...not trying to start a fight. it just sounded patronizing. like when white folks tell me how 'hard working' us hispanics are. or how my english is so good! i don't have an accent or anything. sometimes what is intended as a compliment sounds patronizing. not comparing you to that. just making an example.

they're just doing what people should do in a crisis. helping each other out. i hope we can do the same.

[Dappleganger]

18. Well I 'll choose to ignore your stupid judgments

in the future.

[rapturedbyrobots]

19. that's cool with me

good luck with ignoring people you don't agree with. that always works out well.

i hope it doesn't keep you from sending support to haiti...there might be people there you don't agree with on everything too. some of them might even make 'ignorant judgements' about you and americans.

[tabatha]

3. It brought me to tears.

All the rumors of tempers mounting, etc, are bogus.

[malaise]

4. No they're actually wishful thinking

It's why more than half the media hacks are there - it's want they want to perpetuate their stereotypes - black people fighting over food. Forget their hunger, the destruction of their lives, just look at them. You think all that crap about looting is real - there is no looting now - hungry people are seeking food wherever it is like every other animal on the planet in an emergency.

Fuck the scumbags who want to exploit the pain and suffering of the Haitian people.

One of the reasons why people like Anderson Cooper is a crisis is his humanity.

[blondeatlast]

7. Spot-on, malaise.

Someone in another thread said the proper word for desperate people looking for food is "foraging.' I thought that was an apt description--but the stupid MSM probably doesn't even understand what that means.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

11. Thank you. I found the use of the word "looting" in recent AP

articles very offensive. "Foraging" is a much better substitute

[lapislzi]

12. Instead of seeking food, they should just die quietly

In deference to the sanctity of private property.

:sarcasm:

[HipChick]

13. I switched from M$NBC to CNN because of that crap..

[Mika]

6. If the media wasn't there, the Blue Helmets would be shooting at them.

Like they did after Haitians were protesting the recent banning of 15 political parties (most lefty parties including Aristide's old party - Lavalas) from the upcoming election.

No media coverage of that. :think:




Next stop - Venezuela.

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[malaise]

8. I just love the way some people are making coffins

and carrying their dead in these coffins using wheelbarrows. Even in pain there is an attempt at dignity for the dead.

[Joanne98]

9. And Kyra Phillips is acting like a televangelist!

[applegrove]

24. Yeah I saw a bit of that. It was surprising and incredible.