“AVOID AT ALL COSTS”
I like how you put in all caps to really get your point across
“Make sure you have Trip Interruption Insurance and good health coverage.”
Duly noted.
“Probably not as dangerous as the actual Haiti …”
Thank goodness.
Who’d ever want to step foot in that shithole?
“Smelly and awful. Not worth the time or effort. The people are rude and the area is sketchy.”
Let me read in between the lines
The area is rude and the people are sketchy.
The people are smelly and awful. The area is not worth the time or effort.
The people are not worth the time or effort.
“THE PEOPLE ARE VERY BAD”
Should I avoid them too?
“There are some interesting murals on a few walls … which can be viewed as art or as criminal mischief depending on one’s point of view.”
Because those, bad, smelly and awful people
couldn’t possibly be making art
“It’s a waste of money, cab fare and you will be left no more culturally enriched, unfortunately.”
Damn. What a shame
No more culture to “enrich” you
Provide an exotic spice to your otherwise bland palate of experience
To quench your unending thirst for conquest
“where is all the Haitian culture”
it’s all used up
consumed
Eaten up by ravenous tourists and gentrifiers
I don’t think they carry it at your local Walmart either
Stashed away in smelly and awful places where you can never find it
“Who in their right mind…would want to visit Little Haiti????”
What a mystery!
To think that some people actually find value in Little Haiti, in
The Culture
The History
The People
in those hunched over street vendors
and sad faces hanging out on the corner
“The place was like the living dead.”
I wonder who killed it
Was it usual suspects:
Racism?
Imperialism?
Was it the long history of
isolation,
extortion,
oppression
that has whipped, whipped, whipped Haiti like a runaway slave
punished again and again
for its original sin of standing up to power
and daring to dream
of a world beyond the chains that shackled them?
“Nothing to see…”
There is nothing to see here
but the devastation
the ashes of fool’s gold freedom
and shattered American Dreams
“a complete waste”
Damn right
“Please don’t go here…”
I’m sorry that our suffering didn’t make for a good photo op
Maybe you should avoid it at all costs
and stay somewhere else
Trust me, you won’t be missed.
