Haiti: The Poverty Pimps' Masturbating on Black Pain

For OpEdNews: Ezili Danto - Writer

The Poverty Pimps' Masturbating on Black Pain: Their silent but ever-present violence and corruption
*Monsanto joins the pack.


Haiti Connect charity workers


Photo Source: Poverty Pimps in Haiti
Haiti Connect charity workers, who on the way to Haiti, stopped off for a week in Florida for team meetings...in topless bars and by the pool (published May 15, 2010, in an Irish, Sunday Mail news paper; written by Warren Swords and Valerie Harley. The article is not online but there is a scan available here.) Here's a discussion with, Evert Bopp, the head of Haiti Connect on the Sunday Mail article. See also Evert Bopp's story ; the post entitled: Why I don't agree with Haiti Connect and, With Haiti in Ruins, Some U.N. Relief Workers Live Large on 'Love Boat'.)

The corruption and violence to Haiti, to Africa, to most parts of Asia, to Australia's autochthones, et al..., are structural, not perpetrated just by the large NGOS and charity organizations, the elite corportocracy and imperialist powers that backs them up. No. It's as structural as white privilege. An inheritance some bear the brunt of on this planet while others profit.

No paradigm change may come about if this is ignored. Haiti's majority starve, suffer, grieve and die, while thrill seekers, disaster tourists and the various "missionaries", "non-for-profits (NPOs)" and "peacekeepers" sunbath, swim at the beaches, at Labadie on vacation, on salary or hourly rate for a "charity" or, for taking pictures of us crushed, grieving , deprived and dead for international photo contests to "help us." That some good is done by some charity workers doesn't justify the horror of the poverty pimping system whatsoever. (Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking ; Travesty in Haiti - Reviewed by Ezili Dantò/HLLN ; The Slavery the Media Won't Expose.)

The majority of humanity continues to be enslaved by a dominant system that thrives on poverty.

Haiti's founding father, Jean Jacques Dessalines (Janjak Desalin), said, "I Want the Assets of the Country to be Equitably Divided" and for that he was assassinated. That was the first coup d'etat, the Haitian holocaust - organized exclusion of the masses, misery, poverty and the impunity of the economic elite - continues (with Feb. 29, 2004 marking the 33rd coup d'etat). (Haiti and the Aid Racket : How NGOs are Profiting Off a Grave Situation ; The Two most common neocolonial storylines about Haiti .)



The Violence and Corruption is Structural, Global


CBS News investigated the 5 major Haiti charities - CARE, the American Red Cross, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, and the Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund - and found that they had collected vast amounts of monies for the emergency in Haiti but did not use but a fraction of it to ease the people's emergency sufferings, claiming the 80 to over 90% emergency monies still in their coffers, four months after the earthquake, were for "future projects." Thing is, many Haitians will have no future. When you're having a heart attack, it's an emergency and if the ambulance gets there months in the future, you're dead already. These folks know this. That's why we say they're letting the people die.

That's part of what Ezili's HLLN means when we write about the "poverty pimps masturbating on Black pain."


The charity industry and USAID's money pool is for its cronies and the elite corporatocracy. It's their corporate welfare - bourgeoisie freedom. What Haitian-Africans have been struggling against since 1503. The good-hearted public can't absorb such evil, so they generally prefer not to know. And those of us who pour our life-force out, no matter the repercussions and marginalization, to expose how these evil folks make a living from letting the poor die or get sicker and uses disasters as an opportunity to sell their pesticides, herbicides, nutritional supplements, vitamins, vaccines, guns, weapons, security services, construction services, consultancy services, hybrid seeds or to take over their lands and silence the poor into accepting even more lower wage jobs and sub-standard living, seem to be the ones who are labeled "not constructive." This disaster capitalism is practiced on the poor, black and the brown all over the world, including New Orleans USA with Katrina. ( Naomi Klein Issues Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert ; Lessons for Haiti from the Asian Tsunami; Saving Haiti from disaster capitalism ; Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism in Haiti ; Profiting From Haiti's Crisis: Disaster Capitalism in Washington's Backyard.)

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Haiti-The-Poverty-Pimps--by-Ezili-Danto-100522-847.html

Granted, that real relief work can leave some workers with PTSD who need some rest and recovery, but this systematic corruption is maddening.

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