LUNDI 31 JANVIER 2005 .- "LE COIN DE CARL PARLANT ET ÉCRIT, DE TOUT ET DE RIEN," DANS UN VERBE D’ARC-EN-CIEL.
Bonjour Miami, ses alentours et les "internôtres" qui écoutent à travers le monde. CHAQUE JOUR EST À LUI SEUL UNE VIE. Dieu, le travail et la liberté. Et bonjour, bonjour la vie, bonjour l’amour, pourquoi pas? Moi’j vais bien et’j m’habitue.
Bienvenue au "Coin de Carl" chaque jour de la semaine sur l’internet www.fombrun.com
Chaque Mercredi à 7 heures du soir sur le programme "Let’s talk with Fanini" longueur d’ondes 1700 AM à Miami.
Chaque mardi et jeudi à 9 heures du soir sur ISLAND TV chaines comcast 19 et 79 à Miami et Broward.
Chaque dimanche de midi à 1 heure sur Radio Tropicale à New York.
Chaque dimanche après midi , de 16 heures 15 à 16 heures 30 sur l’Antenne 88 FM à Miami.
LE MOT DU JOUR
La dissimulation est sagesse abrégée.
RECU DE CARL SCHOMBERG, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
31 Jan 2005
Mon cher Carl,
Je viens de lire la réponse de Rafaelle Roy à une lettre anonyme circulant dans un centre intellectuel Canadien . Cette lettre émane certainement d’un homme rempli de préjugés qui a très peur et j’ai lu avec intérêt la réponse pleine de sagesse de Rafaelle Roy.
Je crois qu’il est bon de rappeller que le racisme est fondamentalement basé sur la peur de l’autre, et les préjuges contre le groupe auquel il appartient. Ce genre de prejugé peut mener facilement vers des lieux que l’on se souvient aujourd’hui !!
Aujourd’hui, ou le monde entier a les yeux tournés vers Auschwitz, il serait bon de rappeller qu’au moment de l’ouverture de ces camps on cherchait à parquer et éradiquer le monde de sales gens dont on avait peur. Tant qu’il y aura des gens a penser comme cela il y aura toujours pour certains des sales nègres , des sales juifs , des sales arabes , des sales yeux bridés , des sales bico , des sales à peau claire, des sales à peau sombres , des crottés d’Haitiens et il y aura encore d’autres Auschwitz à venir, à moins qu’on ne fasse l’éducation de tout le monde .
Il serait temps que les organismes internationaux se penchent et informent sur les causes du racisme. J’ai toujours pensé que la connaissance et acceptation de soi , et la compréhension et acceptation de l’autre avec ses différences devait commencer à l’école primaire. Si on n’y prend garde cette peur de l’autre peut un jour faire plus de victimes que le sida ou tous les virus et bactéries réunis,
Bien a toi,
Carl Schomberg
Ps : Mon oncle Max Lafontant, décédé à Paris il y a 2 jours , est l'auteur avec sa famille de " la Guadeloupe en poche " , le guide touristique de 130 pages de publicité et de photos pour l'île d'à côté .
RECU DE VITER JUSTE, La Petite Haiti, Floride
Mon cher Carl, parlons Pays.
En Novembre dernier, lors d’une de mes interventions sur Radio Piment Bouk opinant sur l’avenir politique du President Jean Bertrand Aristide, j’avais conclu que si le Senateur Kerry était élu Président, Aristide pouvait le même jour commencer à faire ses malettes et retourner en Haiti. Par contre, si Bush était réelu, malgré les vœux de la Constitution haitienne qui interdit solennellement le maintien d’un ancien président en exil, cet exil, a moins d’imprévu, allait encore durer au moins 4 ans, c'est-à-dire jusqu’au 20 janvier 2009.
La Convergence, le groupe de 184 partis politiques et organisations inconnues, biens servies par les ambassades étrangères spécialement celles des Etats-Unis, de France et du Canada, émoustillés par le dollar, le franc, la bombance et l’assurance du pouvoir ne se soucierent point des graves conséquences nationales et internationales d’une répétition des vêpres de Chales Oscar. Rappelons qu’elles nous valurent la premiere occupation américaine.
Cette occupation ne se gêna point pour massacrer nos paysans à Marchaterre et dans les montagnes de la Grande Riviere du Nord. Elle nous humilia dans la personne de nos femmes et filles de l’élite comme de la masse, et horreur des horreurs, en la personne d’un de nos plus remarquables et respectables intellectuels d’alors, le Dr. Jean Price-Mars. Ajoutons pour l’histoire qu’elle ne fût point un mal parfait.
C’est le Président Franklin Deano Roosvellt qui en 1934 signa au Cap-Haitien avec le Président haitien Sténio Vincent l’accord pour la levée de l’occupation américaine. Nous disons que l’occupation de notre pays par les troupes américaines, ne fût point un mal parfait. A coté des défauts de sa cuirasse, signales pus haut, elle se donna la peine d’essayer d’instruire les détenteurs du pouvoir en Haiti et au besoin les ré-éduquer.
Elle nous légua aussi une armée disciplinée pour assurer la surveillance de ses intérets mais aussi protéger nos efforts dans le bien faire. Malheureusement, nos élites composées de noirs et de mulâtres irresponsables, choisirent de faire marche arriere pour retourner à l’indiscipline sociale et administrative, la mise en sac de la caisse publique ( le gouvernement d’Elie Lecot excepté), la mise au rencart du patriotisme et du culte de la patrie, la pousuite de la fortune sans remords prenant comme boussole la formule administrative du Président Petion : « Voler l’Etat, n’est pas voler. ».
Au lendemain du départ de Monsieur "le blanc," nos travers reprirent leur cours habituel. Sous la Présidence d’Elie Lescot, au dire d’un narrateur, l’ordre et la discipline s’ameliorèrent. Abel Lacroix etait alors Ministres des Finances.
Avec 1946 débuta la dégringolade. Pour avancer ses légitimes prétentions d’un meilleur accàs a l’assiette économique, les tenants du noirisme inventèrent la formule : « LA CLASSE AU POUVOIR »
Carl, nos élites et nos hommes de gouvernement appliquèrent dans sa plus grande rigueur les aspects negatifs de la formule politique issue des revendcations de 1946 : LA CLASSE AU POUVOIR. Cette politique aveugle, anti democratique pratiquée durant 68 ans et habilement exploitee par la Géopolitique se retrouve à la base de nos désastres en tous genres.
Education : Nos intellectuels les plus acceptables s’en allèrent : Emile St. Lot, Dantès Bellegarde, Stéphen Alexis, Jacques Alexis, Morisseau Leroy et bien d’autres. Ils partirent soit pour l’Afrique d’abord, le Canada, les Etats-Unis ensuite et aujoud’hui leurs rejetons se retrouvent a travers le monde.
Ajoutons que de ce mal pourra sortir un grand bien pour le pays car leurs rejetons et ceux des milliers d’immigrés qui vont suivre, y compris les Boat-People immortalises par Morisseau Leroy chassés par la misère et la persécution politique, constituent actuellement une vaste ressource de connaissance dans tous les domaines qui, utilisée avantageusement pour le devenir national est capable de créer un miracle en Haiti à l’exemple du Japon, du Ghana et autres pays de l’Afrique.
Economie : On envoya en exil nos meilleurs: Thomas Désulmé, Louis Dejoie 1, etc. On découragea nos industries produisant soit pour l’exportation étrangere, la pite, le café, le sucre, la petite industrie, l’industrie touristique, les huiles essentielles ou pour la production locale, le Ciment d’Haiti, la Minoterie, les Usines Sucrieres( HASCO, l’Usine des Cayes et du Cap, l’industrie des huiles de cuisine pour la consomation locale, maigres industries, etc.)
(à suivre)
Signé: Viter Juste
RECU DE MIREILLE SYLVAIN DAVID, KENDALL, FLORIDE
Bonjour Carl,
C'est pour t'inviter à la Fête annuelle de HAYO. Je sais que tu seras au gala du Musée le 26 février prochain, la date même de notre show. Comme je te l'ai déjà dit, je regrette bien que le show de HAYO coïncide avec le dîner. J’ai parlé à Myriam Nader, bien qu'elle ne sera pas des nôtres, elle promet de nous donner un tableau et un "poster" de Jean-Claude Legagneur à rafler. C’est très gentil de sa part.
Transmets mon invitation à tes amis du "Coin de Carl."
Merci.
Mireille Sylvain-David(Mimi)
RECU DE MYRIAM NADER
Carl,
Cette lettre qui circule a l'Universite de McGill est outrageante, totalement raciste et inadmissible!!!!!
Ce ne sont pas seulement des Haitiens dans le monde entier qui s'attaquent aux femmes agées ou autres . Comment permettre à une lettre pareille de circuler au sein d'une université de telle envergure? C'est vraiment dépasser les bornes du respect humain!!!
Non pas que j'excuse le comportement de ces Haitiens là qui sont certainement à blamer et dpivent être poursuivis en justice, mais je comprends difficilement tant de rage contre une race entière à cette suite. Comment attaquer en classifiant péjorativement tout un peuple pour le crime de 3 de ces jeunes Haitiens?!!!
Nous ne sommes certainement pas plus " minables" ou "animaux" que d'autres races quant il s'agit de crimes, Don Carlito....J'espère que tous les Haitiens de Montréal comptent protester cette lettre vigoureusement et faire prévaloir leurs droits!
Myriam
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POSITIVE QUOTE OF THE DAY
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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler
FROM MYRIAM NADER, MIAMI
Don Carlito,
Here is a daily wisdom that I would like to share with you.
Often we need to wait for things to unfold gloriously and to take time to listen to the angels. Good things come to those who wait to accept them with a grateful heart.
Terry Lynn Taylor,
"Angel Days"
Regards,
Myriam
In celebration of Black History Month
cordially invites you, Carl, to a
Client-Firm Partners Appreciation Reception
Thursday, February 24, 2005
5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Miami City Club
Wachovia Financial Center
200 S. Biscayne Boulevard
Penthouse
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Honoring Philanthropic Leader
For providing permanent endowment and support for
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Thank you
Marion.
Carl
FROM ARLENE MAGLOIRE
"The Only One of Its Kind in the World"
The Haitian Heritage Museum (HHM) is a not for profit organization that is committed to highlighting and preserving Haiti's rich culture and heritage locally, nationally and internationally. Our goal is to provide a cultural Mecca for Little Haiti where individuals outside of our community and within our community boundaries can come to enjoy beautiful Haitian art, historic artifacts, ethnic sounds of Haitian music, view Haitian films and enjoy a collection of Haitian Literary works.
By providing this platform as a linkage to Haitian Americans all over the Diaspora and educating the public about the phenomenal contributions that Haitian Americans made as a people, this will in turn create a legacy for the future generations of young Haitian Americans.
The first annual Haitian Heritage Museum Benefit Gala. This event is scheduled for February 26, 2005 at MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami for the initial kick off for fund raising efforts for the HHM. At this event three very distinct awards will be given out and the unveiling of the signature logo by logo contest winner Arlene Magloire for the museum.
This event will also have a silent auction component from the Galerie D'art Nader and Marvelous Realism paintings and prints from Klodi Lemoine to continue to raise monies for HHM. The keynote speaker Judge Sybil Elias will address all the sponsors, guest, affiliates, supporters and dignitaries.
The Mistress of Ceremonies is the lovely Danielle Knox from UPN33/CBS4 and entertainment will be performed by International recording artist Farah Juste, Opera singer Cassandra Guerrier, Sax player Fitzgerald Thomas, Shades in Rhythm Dancers, musical group Ayabombie and poet Fritz Monde and many other talented artists that represent the Haitian culture. This affair will be held at MOCA from 7pm-10pm situated on 770 NE 125th Street.
BE A PART OF HISTORY, BE A PART OF A LEGACY
RECEIVED FROM MAYERLINE L., ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY
Good evening Mr. Fombrun,
My name is Mayerline L. from Elizabeth, N.J. I just came across your website via fouye.com. I would like to compliment you on it. It is very educated and professional. I will definitely introduce it to my friends and family especially to the ones who think that Haitians can't do anything good.
As a young female Haitian who wants to enroll in diplomacy or international relations what can you suggest me, or do you think I should follow my dream on becoming a diplomat? What do you think Mr. Fombrun? I look foward to hear from you soon, Sir.
Thank you and thank you again for sharing your knowledge with us. Keep it up my Haitian brother. Well, well done job!
Mayerline L. (from Jersey)
MY ANSWER
Dear Mayerline,
Your message goes right to my heart. Your life is in front of you you. Among other qualities what you mainly need is knowledge, confidence, courage, and luck. Go for it.
All the best,
Carl
MAYERLINE’S RESPONSE
Hello,
Oh my God! You replied to my message
. I hope that it's you in person not a secretary (lol). Thank you very much. I deeply appreciate your site and everything that I learn so far. I'm a future graduate in Business Administration and will enroll in diplomacy in September. I really love what I see and promise myself to do a daily visit to increase my knowledge. As always Mr. Fombrun 20 thumbs up for January 29th, 2005's article.
Mayerline
MY RESPONSE
Dear Mayerline,
Thank you for your comments. I am a one man operation and I only wish I had George W. Bush’s staff.
All the best,
Carl
FROM NADIM SALOMON,MD
As a Haitian Doctor, I think this guy (in Canada criticizing Haitians) needs serious help. He is so miserable and so angry and really pathetic. I would not discuss his letter because the content is psychotic and may suggest latent violence. Maybe he forgets to take his pills. Somebody who cares about him should get him to a doctor as soon as soon possible. He should also learn to be polite and sign his letter. Let us hope his cortex can still take over his limbic system. We Haitians wish him well.
Sincerely,
Nadim Salomon, MD
New York
MY ANSWER
I agree 100 per cent with your statement Nadim Salomon, MD He is as much a delinquent as those Haitian delinquent themselves, young and old unfortunately in Canada and on the internet.
Carl
FROM Manno Sanon "Toup pou Yo" Haitian Athlete of the Century
Gentlemen,
Thank you to you all for coming to my rescue regarding Sir.Loty’s comments about my using the English language. My intention was not to insult or offend anybody, I was just trying to emphasize a point Mr. Carl Fombrun was making. Mr. Loty seems to suggest that I called myself "Haitian Athlete of the Century", by doing so, Mr. Loty is putting my credibility to question.
I do have a copy of that newspaper " Le Nouvelliste" who conducted that survey en Haiti while I was the head coach of our National soccer team, and a copy is available for whoever desires to request a copy (free of charge), just kidding.
While growing up in Haiti, my parents, who did not speak French, talked to us (my sister and I ) in Creole, but they could not write it. Myself and millions of other kids of my generation, speak the language (creole), but we can not write it. We went to school, but we were taught in French, confusing, isn't it ?
Some of us managed to do our best in that language(French) to survive, same like we do here...in USA, others, used it, (French) to... well, you know what I mean. For all of you out there, I wrote two books (autobiographies)in French,yes, Mr. Loty, they are available for you, if desired, could you believe that I wrote in French?
My self-titled "Haitian Athlete of the Century", like you described it in your comments was not my idea, Mr. Loty, maybe, that title bothers you for untold reasons that myself... maybe some other people would like to know.
Mr. Loty, I wasn't using the English language to deceive people or to lie to them, I was merely pushing the idea that we ( Haitians), before others can respect us, we need to respect ourselves, that was the message, maybe that is not what you'll like to hear.
Mr. Lotty, by attacking my using of English as a mean of encouraging our fellow countrymen and women to love, respect and appreciate each other more, you seem to tell me to shut up if I can't communicate in your favorite language.
Before I forget, Mr. Loty, I mentioned earlier that I wrote two books in French, can you imagine that, my own children ... and grand children could not read them, their own father's...and grand father's athletic career story right there in front of them, and they do not have a clue about what inside, this is sad, and not only for me, but for thousands and thousands of fellow countrymen.
Women are in that same situation, are we rejecting these children, are we saying they are not the sons anddaughters of J.J. Dessalines because they do not speak French,what about the majority back home? Oh do not get me wrong, I do not have any problem with those who received their degree at the universities in French, in Bruxelles,Berlin, Mexico, Madrid, Rome, to name a few.
I am grateful for them, because any achiement they made in life indirectly I am a part of it, why, because we share the same motherland "Haiti". I am proud of my Heritage, I do not have any regrets as an athlete. My teammates and I defended with dignity and courage our country in the land of Adolf Hitler.
Sportively,
Manno Sanon "Toup pou Yo" Haitian Athlete of the Century
FROM SHIRLEY BELOTTE, NEW YORK
Mi dushi Carl,
I must admit that I love learning different languages and am very proud of the fact that I speak English, Creole, French and Spanish. I enjoy learning other languages and understanding other cultures. When I feel like I'm burning out from work in NYC, I just get on a plane and go somewhere foreign to learn about their culture and language.
Last September, I went to Curacao for some rest and I was impressed that curacaolenos spoke more than one language. When I went for ice cream in Willemstad the servers began to speak to me in Papiamento when they realized that I was not a local, they asked me if I spoke Dutch, Spanish or English because they could communicate in either language (Wow!!! I was impressed). After a few days, I knew what Bon Bini (welcome) mi dushi (sweetheart, darling) meant in Papiamento.
Presently, my love for the languages has me consumed with Italian. Thanks to Latin from St. Francois D'Assise in Haiti and Spanish, I find Italian to be very easy and enjoyable. I think that every woman or shopaholic should learn Italian or know enough to shop in Milan.
Every woman must learn " Scusi, dove la via montenapoleone" and "cuanto costa". You are set for the best shopping experience in your life. Via montenapoleone has all the designers you can imagine from Pucci, Cartier, Armani, Hermes, Cerruti, Ferragamo, Cavalli, Gucci and Valentino (the love of my life).
If you have the means, travel, learn different languages and enjoy life to the fullest.
Ciao mio amico,
Shirley Belotte
SHIRLEY DEAREST
, you are one of a kind. Mwen renmen’w, Carl
FROM ABDULLAH BIN, PORT-AU-RINCE, HAITI
Carl,
I would like to write this in French, but I don't think that my level of proficiency is as adavanced as I like it to be whenever I put myself on display. Nonetheless, let me weigh-in, and if you should be of a mind, you can translate it if you would like to.
Rafaelle Roy did a very good job at answering the unidentified author on very many points. I would like to bring more emphasis to one of them. This should not be construed as an excuse for the negative behavior of those Haitians, who in fact are criminals, but rather as an eyewashing of sorts.
It is always easier to blame perpertrators when neglecting to analyze our own failures. There is a basic law of the universe known as the law of cause and effect. It is highly irrational and unproductive to continue to talk about the symptoms(the effect) without addressing the causes. Admittedly, that might be the easiest approach to be done with any unpleasant experience, whatsoever it might have been.
I suggest that the author take the time to learn about deduction and analysis. Not to insinuate that this person has never been exposed to such a critical necessity in applying judgement to situations in a less superficial manner. I believe that this person is also symptomatic of a social ill. The complex of superiority. The text comes across as from a person who has been waiting patiently to put these nasty Haitians in their place. This is the patience of prejudice.
One isn't comfortable with the general difference in life that has become part of the changing social fabric caused by the inclusion, or rather by the attempted inclusion, of previously excluded segments of society. This discomfort actually is a result from the ill concieved comfort of times past which discounted the humanity of so many millions and millions of Africans and their diaspora. The state of this person's mentality displays the deepest forms of ignorance at work. I don't say ignorance in order to be demeaning. I say it to illustrate that the many positive contributions of those millions and millions remain unnoticed and unspoken, except, so as to perpetuate the myth that everything is
OK in the lives of those milions and millions standing in opposition...How long, how long, how long will this BS go on? It is high time that people like this person begin to be reeducated so as to change their false perception that they have done so much, and are doing so much for those they so long held in disadvantage. Haiti is definitely in a shambles, but reaction to that state of things manifests itself in many ways, not the least of which is this type of untoward behavior for which we are now becoming famous.
The behavior, I once again reiterate, is inexcusable. The attitude that history has treated Haitians favorably and that comparisons between Haitians and other nationalities are justified solely on the basis of one's personal or environmental/community experience is also.
This commentary and others of the same kind, only go to show that racism can continue to rear its ugly head wherever ignorance abounds. I believe that it is time for all concerned, on both sides of the coin, to understand that we are condemned to live on this planet or blessed to live on this planet together.
Would the person that wrote this be willing to sit down and talk about this situation without his/her preconcieved notions? Would that person then be willing to contribute positively to the reeducation of Haitians within their community, as needed to change the socially negative atmosphere which uninformed statements can engender? Would that person be willing to reexamine their own contributions to the society in which they live in, asking themselves if they have done all in their power? And finally, would that person be willing to forgive and be forgiven by those Haitians he/she has attacked? If not, why are we bothering to act civilized? Let's get the guns out and act like we know we're right and we're not backing down. Of course that is foolish...there must be better ways.
Deportation as a policy must not be aimed at specific ethnicities because it produces the same results that everyone is trying to claim that they wish to avoid.
Thank you. I hope that I haven't offended anybody any more than they already might have been.
Signed: Abdullah Bin
Sentidos renovados
Quiero cerrar las puertas de mi corazon, ocultar este sentir, que no me deja vivir
Y con el agua de el olvido este maldito sentir aplacar, y del manantial inmenso, esta sed calmar
Con paso cuidadoso caminar y con mis sentidos atento, y de su don,buscar un amor cierto, no quiero que sea en vano mi intento
Por mantener un corazon reposado y que el alocado viento, llevese lo unico que tengo, este amor que tengo por dentro
No quiero verme,bajo un manto oscuro, ni en lares lejano,quiero verme renovado Con mi corazon y mis manos
Como un agitado tul,con su luz adentro, tras el final encuentro, acostado en el fondo de tu cuerpo
Raul T
Autor de la Poesia: Raul T
FROM "KIKI" Wainwright. HAITIAN POET, COMPOSER, POPULAR MUSICIAN.
without you
I am like
a guitar
without the caress of fingers
a drum
without the warmth of hands
Tradyksion
san wou
mwen tankou
youn gita
ki pèdi
karès dwèt
youn tanbou
ki pèdi
chalè men
MEZANMI,
se la map rete pou jodi’a, na pale demen si Granmèt la vle. Kenbe.
