The Gantt Report
Every day I hear people saying the best way to help the Black people in Haiti is to send money to white folk or to agencies controlled by whites like The Red Cross and the Bush-Clinton relief effort.
To contribute to those types of organizations is ONE WAY, not necessarily the very best way!
Many of the non-Black people traveling to Haiti to save the Haitians are wearing Timberlands and silk shirts to pass out water to Haitians who only have one shirt in the world and are bare footed!
When I and others suggest that many Haitian people have nothing and need everything, I mean everything!
I have said before and I say so today, send everything that you can to help the Haitian people.
No, I don’t mean for you to box up Super Bowl T-shirts and drop them out of helicopters or stack them up at the Haitian airport. What you need to do is find a group like Wyclef Jean’s, a Haitian church or orphanage or a specific Haitian family to send stuff to directly.
No Black family anywhere at any time can survive being totally dependent on charity devils!
Someone asked The Red Cross, for instance, how much of the donations received by the group actually goes to Haitians. The answer was ninety-one cents of every dollar goes to help Haiti. It sounds OK doesn’t it?
Well, if contributors give a billion dollars to The Red Cross, $90,000,000.00 goes somewhere other than to Haitians. Now it looks a little different. Its not that much overhead in the world.
Haiti is a Black country filled with Black people and I think the Haitian people should take part in every aspect of the Haitian relief efforts.
White folks are ordering plane loads and shipping container loads of medical supplies, water, canned foods, sugar, wheat, flour and other items.
I wonder how many Haitians, or Black, individuals and companies are involved in those purchasing transactions.
There are Haitian commodity traders and facilitators. There are Black commodity traders.
The devilish charities are tricky too. They are in essence saying, “Black folk, give all of your contribution dollars to us so we can buy needed commodities from our friends and make some white folk filthy rich.”
I know you don’t like for me to say things like that but you tell me. Does the Red Cross have a minority business set aside aspect? Does the Bush-Clinton relief effort have a diversity plan?
What happens to Black people in America happens to people of African descent worldwide.
History is the best teacher. If you want to know what the new and “improved” Haiti will look like just look at what the new New Orleans looks like. Look at what so-called urban renewal has done in every major metropolitan area in America.
OK, don’t look at America. Look at what happened in Freeport, Bahamas when white folk came there and said they would be helping Bahamians.
Think again, it is nothing wrong with giving to Black directed Haitian relief efforts or giving directly to Haitian groups or individual families just like you give to non-Black groups.
Internationally, just like locally, we have to accept true assistance from others but we also have to help ourselves and our people.
Our focus cannot be on making the white vendors and contractors of The Red Cross and the friends of other white controlled charities richer than they already are.
If a Black man could just sell the JP54 jet fuel to gas up all of the airplanes at the Haitian Airport, he would be a millionaire many times over.
Think about it!
Guess this person cares more about the source of the greenbacks going to help the folks in Haiti. What makes a black dollar more important than a white dollar in these situations? You sir, are a racist and are ill equipped to be telling charities that they need to get money and resources from blacks to help blacks. One look at the unfortunate people in the news from Haiti and you might assume they couldn’t care less if the money, helpers or supplies come from blacks or whites, American or Russian. All they care about is that someone loves them enough to help them at all.