Haiti – The dilemma

Posted January 14, 2010

To grieve at the death and destruction brought about by Mother Nature and disregard the brutality of Human Nature would be a sin. Haiti as a nation is one of the poorest and most oppressed nations on Earth. For decades its citizens have been plagued by poverty, hunger, disease and armed conflict. Global governments have shown their concern by offering a cold indifference to the situation. They have opted to make Haitians victims of their own sad reality and not the responsibility of humanity as a whole. While we become willing participants in this moment of desperation we remain detached and fail to recognize why this type of tragedy has occurred.

Mother Nature is a keen observer of Human Nature and it will intervene to erase what human nature has discarded. A Haitian is no more important to the community of nations than is a mosquito. If we can amass such global concern in an instant then why can we not help a brother or sister in their true time of need? We spend fortunes to bring peace and prosperity to rogue nations but we will not do the same to bring peace to a fellow human being, especillay when their oppression has been created by controllable circumstances.

Individuals must sacrifice who and what they are if they are to elevate the human spirit beyond its current diluted sense of worth. We appear to ravel in ceremonialism in time of tragedy and stand in the shadows when that same life is dying in degradation. We are not a community of nations but rather the pulse of a greater reality. No human being should be left to the grips of Mother Nature if within us we recognize the greater cause of each human life. We have the technology, engineering and science to minimize each and every tragedy. I, however, am predisposed to conclude that all this intelligence has been harnessed to foster a malevolent future and not a harmonious one.

As the world becomes increasingly challenged by Mother Nature I hope that all individuals begin to unveil the mask of horror that exists within our governments and most of those organizations that purport to want to help. The Haitian cause is the same cause that Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King and so many others took to undertake in their own hostile environments – “to elevate human potential via a meaningful and spiritual journey”.

Thank you,
Joseph Pede