Disaster makes me less concerned about you and more concerned about we

I realized I really don't give a crap about most of my friends status updates right now. Seems like most of it is self centered shallow rubbish, do most people really understand the MAGNITUDE of what's happening in Haiti? Almost 1% of the population may be gone. There were over 300,000 orphans before the earthquake, one can only imagine how many there are now. Buildings crushed entire families, I know someone who lost 12(!) family members. This is some next level culture destroying kind of event. And it also sickens me to hear about how much celebs donated, more pr for them. Just do it, does everyone have to know what a "good" person a celeb is?

Damn. I'm shallow and self absorbed too, but I'm just pissed off. Haiti is not just some poor country to write off as backwards. Colonization, blockades didn't allow the country to build a proper economic base (Chris rock wealthy vs. rich), dictators looted the rest, then the government interference took care of stifling progress. So forget an education system, forget a freaking agricultural initiative, forget $ for civil engineering and infrastructure. Couple that with overwhelming racism (Cubans yes, Haitians no) and neighboring countries' bigotry (yes Caribbean friends we are guilty too) and position in Hurricane Alley and you have a freaking disaster. But then people say well, if Haiti didn't do this and if Haiti didn't do that...like we "DID" something to have our blessed life. We are just bloody fortunate. We won a lottery.

To a man, we are not "smarter" than Haitian people, we are not "more civilized" than Haitian people, we just got better freaking opportunities. Even our wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage seem like some damn luxury problems when there are places people don't even know where their next meal is coming. I'm just tired, tired of self righteousness. I'm blessed and even if you don't know it, you are too. We may have worked for alot of what we have, but we didn't struggle for all of it and "luck" often has more to do with it than "merit" and "intelligence.


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