The Nature of this Conflict (Humans)

by David Turell , Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 19:57 (5420 days ago) @ George Jelliss


> DT: "Unfortunately, the Haitians have never developed their society to the point that they are prepared. Is that God's fault? Is it the First World's? It is a tough-love God's challenge to be adult in societal rules and development."
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> I'm afraid that remark strikes me as being pretty close to racist. 
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> Here is an alternative point of view that I read on another forum: 
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> "Quake-proof buildings are cheap and easy to construct if timber is available or steel affordable. Human greed, in the form of the deforestation of the Carribean Antilles by international capital and the control of substandard building by a small band of absentee landlords has combined well with undue profit taking by the concrete companies: the result is the wholesale murder of thousands in the name of capitalism."- 
If you really knew the history of Haiti you would not have classified my remarks the way you did. The Dominican Republic is on the same island, and the contrast is enormous. The history of both countries is intertwined. Explore the issue of why the difference. I've travelled in many third world countries. Kenya, Chile, Equador, Mexico, Fiji, Thailand,& India are not Haiti, to mention some of the places I've been.-Your remarks tend to indicate that you believe in post-modern multiculturalism and diversity, and the dangers of the philosophic basis of capitalism, rooted in English and French philosophers of the Enlightenment. If you wish to guess who I am then I may guess about you.-I live in a Texas town that is 75% black. We have dinner with black friends, we party with them, and we work side by side with them on my ranch. As a young man I supported desegregation very actively. but I can be clearly honest about Haiti in my viewpoint.