Quick email…
I have been keeping an eye on US foreign policy for years but never really had the wherewithal to do anything other than long to get out, move to that incredibly exceptional country that doesn’t exist, and criticize it from outside… I have always felt particularly anxious about living with the most globally repressive regime on the planet, especially when it comes to countries like Haiti. And yes, Haiti is not the only one, nor is the USA the only bad guy…. Certainly, what we are experiencing is the reverberative effects of 19th century colonialization, slavery, (the Racism and everything that goes with it…) and an international arena that always favors the guy on the block with the largest guns.
This country needs to grow up and stop lying to itself, but I fear things will only get worse. If we could all spark a movement to get americans to see that which occupies the underneath, instead of only what they see on the surface, things would start to change. In this country, more perhaps than any other, almost everything we assume to be face value is based on some type of slight of hand, to put it mildly. Is there a solution? All I can do is keep wishing.
When I lived in Cambridge MA back in the late eighties I found many people willing to speak out, and work toward uncovering the truth about such subjects as Haiti. Having spent many years living in and around the area, I started to find myself forgetting that places like Boston are NOT the rest of the country, and people like Noam Chomsky are rare birds indeed!
I can not and will not pretend to be any type of scholar on the subject, but yes, I do care, and like many of us, want to do what I can to make Americans see truth. One of the things I cannot stand at this point is watching all the absolute unequivocal BS spewing from the mouths of the Republican talking heads… it makes my skin crawl…. but on a more positive note, it reminds me we all need to take action.
See you soon,
-Will
