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Haiti experienced a MAJOR 7.0 earthquake in the center of its most populaces city; the capital Port-au-Prince lays in ruins. It is so bad that there is no one in the limited government it has to do anything. This small country is the most impoverished of the entire western hemisphere. Add to that the devastating hurricanes and tropical storms they have suffered in the last couple of years, plus a fragile government that barely keeps civil order at the best of times. As the days pass by, and American assistance is able to assess the situation, it is conceivable that a half million people might have lost their lives and hundreds of thousand injured.
If this is not bad enough, here in American we have commentators of the extreme conservative right-wing making this disaster a political issue by attacking President Obama for his quick response to the Haitian earthquake. Rush Limbaugh said it was a political move to have a press conference less than 24 hours after the quake giving support to that small island nation of blacks and that it took 3 days to talk to the press after the undiebomber on Christmas day. His point is that this quick response will help secure the African-American vote and because he is a black. But since the undiebomber was going to kill whites, he took his time to respond. Rush's statement was purely racist and totally offensive to the people of Haiti and Americans alike.
Also Pat Robertson proclaimed on the 700 club that the earthquake was the wrath of God against the decedents of the Haitian slaves for obtaining their freedom and independence from France in the slave revolt of 1791. He said that the Haitians made a pack with the devil to obtain their freedom and thus they have been plagued with poverty, civil unrest, hurricanes and storms. How stupid are these statements. I would hope this is not indicative of the Christian faithful. It is not very Christ like of him to blame the victims of this disaster for this natural event of destruction. Of course he does not accept the idea of science, thus he does not accept the concept that the movement of tectonic plates caused the earthquake.
History be told, the revolt of the slaves in Haiti was the genesis for the French to sell its holdings in the expanding America, the Louisiana Purchase, that eventually added 13 states to the union at a very cheap price, less than 3 cents per acre. It was also the start of the freeing of the slaves throughout the Caribbean and South America.
If you can, please give what you can to the Red Cross or other relief agency assisting this devastated country.
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