In March I worked as an interpreter for the government of Mexico. They hired me to work with a group of Haitian policemen who were interested in building the same CCTV system they have in Mexico. Man, were they desperate. They told me they were the only country in the world to have a ghost president since Colombians had assassinated him two years before. They still have portraits of him hanging in the walls of Haitian administrations though, but still no elections soon. No army because the US didn't allow them to have one. Only one or two neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince were controlled by the government. The whole country is under the rule of gang members. The capital has been one of the filthiest capitals in the world for about forty years now... Cholera is actually a thing there. Earthquakes and hurricanes keep destroying the country every two years or so, etc. So, yeah, the diaspora everywhere in the world is their only hope. But, just like Palestinians, Congolese, Soudanese, etc. they are not considered as human beings by the common westerner. Walking deads definitely, but not human beings. So, sure, when Trump says this nonsense, MAGA supporters start to imagine zombies attacking Midwest cities instead of understanding the deep shit human beings have been undergoing for hundreds of years now. Problem is there's no hope for Haitians in Haiti. Their fate is to suffer or to flee from their countries and suffer a little less. I don't think they care too much of Trump supporters. They come from real hell.
Most Americans have no idea how dangerous the second Trump administration will be. First, he goes after the immigrants, then regular Americans. Only matter of time before the US becomes a police state. I hope and pray, it’s not gonna happen. But it could. Very easily.
Bret, what can we do, as musicians, writers, and artists, to help repair the lack of appropriate thinking and realistic concept integration of what will happen to this world if he is allowed to win? There has to be a way to change the movement of this adulterated and free-flowing river.
Bret, Well said.
In March I worked as an interpreter for the government of Mexico. They hired me to work with a group of Haitian policemen who were interested in building the same CCTV system they have in Mexico. Man, were they desperate. They told me they were the only country in the world to have a ghost president since Colombians had assassinated him two years before. They still have portraits of him hanging in the walls of Haitian administrations though, but still no elections soon. No army because the US didn't allow them to have one. Only one or two neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince were controlled by the government. The whole country is under the rule of gang members. The capital has been one of the filthiest capitals in the world for about forty years now... Cholera is actually a thing there. Earthquakes and hurricanes keep destroying the country every two years or so, etc. So, yeah, the diaspora everywhere in the world is their only hope. But, just like Palestinians, Congolese, Soudanese, etc. they are not considered as human beings by the common westerner. Walking deads definitely, but not human beings. So, sure, when Trump says this nonsense, MAGA supporters start to imagine zombies attacking Midwest cities instead of understanding the deep shit human beings have been undergoing for hundreds of years now. Problem is there's no hope for Haitians in Haiti. Their fate is to suffer or to flee from their countries and suffer a little less. I don't think they care too much of Trump supporters. They come from real hell.
Most Americans have no idea how dangerous the second Trump administration will be. First, he goes after the immigrants, then regular Americans. Only matter of time before the US becomes a police state. I hope and pray, it’s not gonna happen. But it could. Very easily.
Bret, what can we do, as musicians, writers, and artists, to help repair the lack of appropriate thinking and realistic concept integration of what will happen to this world if he is allowed to win? There has to be a way to change the movement of this adulterated and free-flowing river.
I wish I had an answer.