The Future of Haiti, what will it become?

United States
January 24, 2010 8:35am CST
I am happy that we've all united for a greater cause, and that music is playing in the streets of Haiti today. It is wonderful to see this side of humanity, in the aftermath of such terrible tragedy. I feel it speaks volumes for the idea that one door closes, and another one opens, and in my spiritual beliefs I believe it shows that what evil does, a greater good undoes two times over. ...but I wonder what Haiti's ultimate fate will be as a moniker for free black people as a free black nation. I see, pessimistically, that it will become a nation indebted to the US and the rest of the world, and hardly the troubled and fledgling, yet free nation that it was. It was an ideal glimmer of hope for African Americans and Africans, that an overturned slave nation could become it's own free nation of and by the people. Do you think Haiti may eventually become a state in 20 years or so? Or that the people will feel, or be presented in the media, as so indebted to the rest of the world, that they become obligated to fight alongside the UN in international wars that may have nothing to do with them otherwise? In this great positivity today, I see pivotal moments, but fear a bleak future as always. I hope that the Samaritan side of all this precedes and prevents and notions like this, and that We Are the World ideals prevail in the future, whatever the fate of this destitute and devastated nation may be.
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