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WE ARE THE WORLD – FOR HAITI

13 Saturday Feb 2010

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THE PERFECT VALENTINE’S GIFT – FROM THE HEART

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WE ARE THE WORLD – FOR AFRICA (1985)

MICHAEL’S DEMO

2010 VERSION: LIST OF ARTISTS

* Akron * Patti Austin * Phillip Bailey * Tony Bennett * Farnsworth Bentley * Justin Bieber * Mary J Blige * Ethan Bortnick * Toni Braxton * Jeff Bridges * L L Cool J * Snoop Dogg * Zac Brown * Kristian Bush * Erica Campbell * Tina Campbell * Lil Wayne * Natalie Cole * Harry Connick, Jr. * Nikka Coasta * Miley Cyrus * Celine Dion * Faith Evans * Fergie * T-Pain * Melonie Fiona * Jamie Foxx * Sean Garrett * Tyrese Gibson * Josh Groban * Anthony Hamilton * Keith Harris * Mya * Keri Hilson * Julianne Hough * Jennifer Hudson * II Trio * Enrique Iglesias * Janet Jackson * Michael Jackson * Randy Jackson * Taj Jackson * Taryll Jackson * TJ Jackson * Al Jardine * Wyclef Jean * Jimmy Jean-Louis * Ralph Johnson * Joe Jonas * Kevin Jonas * Nick Jonas * Quincy Jones * Rashida Jones * Musiq Soulchild * Gladys Knight * Adam Levine * Benji Madden * Joel Madden * Katherine McPhee * Kid Cudi * Rickey Minor * Jason Mraz * Pink * Jennifer Nettles * Brandy * Orianthi * Freda Payne * Plain Pat * AR Rahman * RedOne * Buta Rhymes * Lionel Richie * Nicole Richie * Raphael Saadiq * Carlos Santana * Nicole Scherzinger * India.Arie * Isaac Slade * Trey Songz * Jordin Sparks * Barbra Streisand * Robin Thicke * Rob Thomas * Usher * Vince Vaughn * Kanye West * Verdize White * Will.I.Am * Ann Wilson * Brian Wilson * Nancy Wilson * Bebe Winans

HOMEWORK ON HAITI

23 Saturday Jan 2010

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"HAITI CRUCIFIED" - Jonas Profil

Yuji: I was thinking about what you said about Haiti.

Dane: Did you learn much?

Yuji: Yeah, I learned to do my homework.

Dane: What are you talking about?

Yuji: Well, you said so many Haitians are dying because America and France made them poor.

Dane: That’s right.  But I did say there were other reasons too.

Yuji: Yeah, but you didn’t say what other things.  So I checked online.

Dane: What did you find out?

Yuji: One thing is the natural environment.

Dane: How did the environment make Haiti poor?

Yuji: The mountains. There are a lot of them, especially in the Dominican Republic.  Some of them are over 3,000 meters high.

Dane: Switzerland is nothing but mountains but the Swiss aren’t poor.

Yuji: Yes, but the mountains on Hispaniola keep most of the rain on the eastern half of the island. That means Haiti gets less rainfall.

Dane: So what?

Yuji: So the forests aren’t as thick. And most the rivers flow to the east, so the soil isn’t as rich.

Dane: But Haiti is a lot greener than Iraq or Afghanistan.

Yuji: Yeah, it’s green but the land is drier than the Dominican Republic and most of it is mountains.  There’s not much land that’s good for farming.

Dane: So you’re saying the Haitian people are poor because the land is poor?

Yuji: Not only that.  There are also too many people in too small an area.

Dane: The French are responsible for that. They imported too many African slaves.

Yuji: Yeah, and those people cut down most of the trees for cooking fires. So the best soil is washed away every time it rains.

Dane: So now you’re blaming the Haitian people?

Yuji: Yes.  And not just for cutting down the trees.

Dane: What else are they guilty of?

Yuji: After they kicked the French out they imitated their old masters.

Dane: You mean they kept the French language and culture?

Yuji: No. Well yes, they did that.  But the bad part was they made a new caste system.

Dane: Like India?

Yuji: Like a slave state.  The lighter people acted just like the whites; they treated the darker people like slaves.

Dane: But that’s the case in most Latin American countries.

Yuji: It was worse in Haiti. The new elite just taxed the poor people and never invested in developing the country.

Dane: Now you’re starting to sound one-sided.  I’m going to have to do some more homework too.  Then I can argue with you.

Yuji: Okay, but this argument isn’t going to help the Haitian people recover from the earthquake.

Dane: I don’t know.  If people know more about how Haiti got to be so poor maybe we can figure out how to help them change all that.

Yuji: Good.  Then you’d better go do your homework!

THIS CONVERSATION IS A FOLLOW UP TO:

HAITI: THE GREAT BLACK HOPE

HAITIAN SOUNDS

23 Saturday Jan 2010

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Beyonce claims Haitian heritage as her part of the melting pot, but the American dream girl can hardly improve on the fertile talent of her ancestral island.  Here is a glimpse at the musical wealth of Haiti.

EMELINE MICHEL – DIVA

JACOB DESVARIEUX – TROUBADOUR

ALTIERY DORIVAL – TRADITION

WYCLEF JEAN – IMMIGRE

BEYONCE IS CREOLE SEXY

20 Wednesday Jan 2010

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HAITI: THE GREAT BLACK HOPE

17 Sunday Jan 2010

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TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE

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Yuji I saw on TV there was a terrible earthquake in Haiti.

Dane It’s heartbreaking, isn’t it.  Worse than the China Earthquake in 2008.

Yuji But why did so many people die? They say it could be as many as 200,000!

Dane Because it’s the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. The buildings break easily.

Yuji Why is it so terribly poor? No natural resources?

Dane It used to be rich in resources. I had to read their history to find out how they got so poor.

Yuji Can you start by telling me just where it is?

Dane It’s on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, between Cuba and Puerto Rico.

Yuji How big is it?

Dane The island is a little smaller than Hokkaido. But Haiti is only the western one-third. The rest is the Dominican Republic

Yuji What kind of people are the Haitians?

Dane Mostly French or Creole speaking blacks.

Yuji Creole? What kind of language is that?

Dane French mixed with African and Indian dialects.

Yuji You mean most of the people came from Africa?

Dane That’s right.  But before they got there, Christopher Columbus made the first Spanish colony there in 1492.

Yuji What happened to the original Indians?

Dane Most of them were killed or died from disease.

Yuji And what happened to the Spanish?

Dane After 200 years they gave Haiti to the French but kept the eastern part. That was in 1697.

Yuji Why did they give it to the French?

Dane The French and Spanish had a war in Europe. The Spanish lost.

Yuji What did the French do in Haiti?

Dane The slave trade. Ships full of black slaves arrived from Africa and sailed back to Europe full of gold, silver and other goodies.

Yuji Wow, that must have brought a lot of money to Haiti.

Dane Yes, in the 18th Century Port-au-Prince was the richest port in the Caribbean. And the population is mostly black today because of all that slave business.

Yuji How did they go from being the richest to the poorest?

Dane After 100 years of enslavement by the French, a slave named Toussaint L’Overature led a revolution in 1804, and created the world’s first black democracy.

Yuji And he made them poor?

Dane No, their old masters, the French did. Twenty years later, after the Napoleonic Wars ended in Europe, the French planned to invade Haiti again. They said, “Pay a huge fine,or we will invade you again.”

Yuji But that was a long time ago. What’s that got to do with them being so poor today?

Dane All their money went to the debt. Of course they stopped the slave trade and they had no money to build a new economy. And then other countries boycotted them.

Yuji What about the US?

Dane They made them sell a lot of their land to US sugar companies.

Yuji Didn’t that help the economy?

Dane No. The profits went to the US. Then, in 1915, President Wilson completely took over their economy.

Yuji Like a colony?

Dane Exactly. For 19 years Haiti was ruled by the US military.

Yuji Japan had an American military government too, under MacArthur. They helped Japan a lot.

Dane Not in Haiti. They just protected the US companies.

Yuji Somebody must have profited.

Dane Yeah, 95% of the nation’s wealth is held by the 1% of the Haitians who work with the Americans. The only future for the rest is in the army.

Yuji But the Americans did finally leave, right?

Dane The army left, but the US still controlled the economy and the government.

Yuji For how long?

Dane Another 23 years. Then in 1957, dictators Papa Doc Duvalier and his son Baby Doc ruled the country in a reign of terror.

Yuji Didn’t the US try to stop them?

Dane No, the US supported them. The Duvaliers protected the US businesses and kept the Cuban communists out.

Yuji The communists?

Dane Yeah. Castro’s Cuban revolution was in ’59, remember?

Yuji HOh yeah.  So, how long did these monsters run the show?

Dane Till 1990, when Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected.

Yuji Was he any better?

Dane Definitely! He was a Catholic priest who worked with the poor people in the slums.

Yuji You mean like Mother Theresa?

Dane Something like that. He was a real reformer. The people love him.

Yuji So, what happened to him?

Dane He’s in exile in South Africa. Papa Bush ran him out after 9 months. Clinton brought him back in 1994. Then Baby Bush kidnapped him again in 2004.

Yuji Wow! What’s the US got against him?

Dane He supported his country, not US business. And they were still afraid of Castro’s Cuba.

Yuji So, what you‘re saying is; These people are dying because Haiti is so poor and Haiti is so poor because of France and the US?

Dane Well, That’s right.  Of course it was not only because of them, but they sure didn’t help.

Yuji But Obama is sending a lot of help now, right?

Dane Yes, he is. Maybe this catastrophe will shake some sense into America and the rest of the world.

Yuji And maybe this time they’ll finally give the Haitians a chance.

Dane Yeah, then they might still become the great black hope they started out as 200 years ago.


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HOME WORK ON HAITI

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