I am beyond angry. One year anniversary of the most horrendous and tragic event in Haiti and you might as well say NOTHING has been done towards the re-building efforts in the city's capital, Port au Prince.
Only 5 percent of the rubble has been removed and millions of people are still living in tent cities because there is no land to build their homes on.
The world ''donated'' millions of dollars of aid and yet less than 50 percent of it has been received. The United States has only given 10 percent of what was promised, apparently 90 percent is still locked in congress.
I am beyond anger, I am totally disgusted. In my disgust I begin to make assumptions that may or may not be rational, I dont know.
My first one is, if this was a country where the majority of the population or the community is white, would so much more have been accomplished by now? Ludicrous question? Think about it.
Many major donors are being choosy as to what their donations pay for...they dont want their donations spent on ''unglamorous'' projects like clearing rubble. This gives me a sense or a feeling that this country is being seen as a people of diminished worth by comparison to a country of a predominantly white population.
Many will accuse me of once again using the ''race card'' but you know what, using the race card when it is obvious is reasonable under the circumstances, dont you think?
They've had funds to hold a presidential election, and yet no funds to assist their people by providing the most basic in human needs like a home, adequate sanitation, adequate medical and social welfare needs. So much so that cholera is now running rife in the community and has killed countless people.
This is a disaster which killed more than 200,000...estimates are claiming as many as 300,000 but nobody knows for sure. How bad is that, when the country or the powers that be dont even have a system of recording the deaths or at least attempting to record who is dead and who isnt. What a sad, sad situation when human beings can cease to exist and there seems to be no ''caring'' or a severe lack of obligation or responsibility by the country's government.
When the tragedy first happened, many kind-hearted people with generous intentions went there to do what they could, many more people donated their hard earned monies at a time when the world was going through one of the worst global economic climates in history.
Politicians or ex-politicians like Bill Clinton were there along with many other celebrities in front of a barage of news photographers and media, pledging and promising every possible assistance and aid to a ravaged nation....but now that the media frenzy has died down, many of these people who took advantage of propping up their ''image'' seem to have lost their drive, their compassion, their caring, and I guess they have moved on to other things.
See what I mean about being ANGRY? In my anger I get all this notions in my head and it exacerbates my disgust and yes it might very well be irrational, even uncalled for....but can someone please explain to me why, why is this country and its people still suffering just as much as they were on the very first day of this tragedy, one year later?