Does The African Diaspora Have a Moral and Ethical Duty to Help Haiti and Liberia?

[Ba'al]

Only to the extent that they don't neglect their own issues.

I'm a firm panafricanist, have been for over a decade.

 

[K_Fisher]

Lmao at the third option , as an afro European I believe in sort your issues at home first before sorting out others.

 

[usmarin3]

I'm of the belief that true social change has to start at the grassroot level. The people have to want change and implement it.

 

[usmarin3]

I was watching a documentary on Liberia a while back and shit was disturbing. Warlords and their soldiers fighting butt naked and eating their enemies. People shitting on the beach because of lack of bathrooms.

 

[Brother_Five]

I was watching a documentary on Liberia a while back and shit was disturbing. Warlords and their soldiers fighting butt naked and eating their enemies. People shitting on the beach because of lack of bathrooms.

What documentary?

Who made it?

 

[Kwan Dai]

Yes. We all have a moral and ethical duty to help those in need.

 

[NothingButTheTruth]

Nope, get home right first, then you can reach out if you have surplus resources. Personal accountability isn't practiced enough.

 

[fortyacres]

No, they have elected officials, they can help themselves.

 

[Kwan Dai]

Whats interesting is that the people from those places who aren't effected don't even be doing much....I kno Africans from Liberia who are here in the states that are more focused on getting they bread here and are not so much worried about whats going on there.....

I say that to say most folks dont feel they have a moral obligation to do anything if they arent from that specific location where shit is popping off...sure some folks do but the majority of folks more worried about what they got going on....

Yall see the African diaspora riding with blacklivesmatter like that??

Naw not really...

Nothing wrong with it thats just the way it is....

It's something very wrong with it.

I hate the excuse that people claim they have their own shit going on. That's a fucking cop out. No matter one's station in life we ALWAYS have shit going on. This will not change until we are 6 feet under. If, a person is waiting until they have money, fame, etc to care about others to the point they are compelled to do "something" they will never find it within self to do for others. Doing for others is a matter of heart, soul and spirit.

 

[MrSoutCity]

I was watching a documentary on Liberia a while back and shit was disturbing. Warlords and their soldiers fighting butt naked and eating their enemies. People shitting on the beach because of lack of bathrooms.

What documentary?

Who made it?

I saw that documentary on here.

 

[jono]

No. You don't have an obligation to help anyone. Assisting is an act of generosity. Generosity cannot be forced

 

[texas409]

No lie this a good ass thread topic but one I'm not gonna give an opinion on cause I don't know the correct way to answer it. Adios fuckers

 

[CashmoneyDux]

@BOSSExcellence

 

[D0wn]

Haiti don't need help, Haiti needs to be stopped being sabotaged by France, Domincan Republic, and the United States.

 

[leftcoastkev]

I don't know. As a "black" person on the fringes of the American matrix with no knowledge of my actual national lineage, I tend to see black skin as a universal bond with any other black person ( Haitian, Jamaican, Nigerian, etc).

But many black people outside of America tend to have a more nationalistic mindset and look at me as foreign as I'd see a Norwegian.

 

[CapitalB]

@BOSSExcellence

i havent a clue whats goin on in here..

but FUCK AFRICA!

 

[NothingButTheTruth]

I don't know. As a "black" person on the fringes of the American matrix with no knowledge of my actual national lineage, I tend to see black skin as a universal bond with any other black person ( Haitian, Jamaican, Nigerian, etc).

But many black people outside of America tend to have a more nationalistic mindset and look at me as foreign as I'd see a Norwegian.

What you described in the first paragraph is from slavery. They've declared war on black people, so you subconsciously put all of us in the victim box or universal bond as you call it. They say one drop of black means you're tainted, so you claim everyone is black.

Instead of grouping black people, you should redirect that energy towards the enemy for stronger results.

I don't know. As a "black" person on the fringes of the American matrix with no knowledge of my actual national lineage, I tend to see black skin as a universal bond with any other black person ( Haitian, Jamaican, Nigerian, etc).

But many black people outside of America tend to have a more nationalistic mindset and look at me as foreign as I'd see a Norwegian.

Blame slavery.....

Human beings never had allegiance based solely on skin color......it's stupid.

African tribes been getting down with each other since the beginning....

It's very stupid, and is a direct product of white supremacy. We should be linking based on character, morals, personality, culture, status, values and ideology.

 

[Shuffington]

Good question.

My Heart is leaning to a yes.

But what does "Help" look like would be my next question.

 

[Maximus Rex]

Good question.

My Heart is leaning to a yes.

But what does "Help" look like would be my next question.

Help is educating the workforce and giving them skills. If I had it like that I'd get together with Tariq Nasheed, Drs. Boyce and Umar, that Haitian Harvard cat who says that the language of instruction in Haiti needs to changed from French to Creole and some trustworthy Haitians who are down with and sincere with educating Haiti's youth.

This would be a long term plan. In my schools, entrepreship would be a part of the curriculum. So there would be mandatory classes on Dr. Boyce's wealth building systems on how to build a business. Of course you would to tailor the shit Haiti because of their laws.

I would start of in the poorest section of Port au Prince and start from there. Being that there's little to no government oversight or regulation concerning the Haitian educational system, the power elite down there would let a muthafucka rock for minute until those kids become adult s and start to threaten the status quo. I would also have vocational schools. Also help comes with providing those people with basic shit, since they lack hella shit that we take for granted.

 

[Figo]

I was watching a documentary on Liberia a while back and shit was disturbing. Warlords and their soldiers fighting butt naked and eating their enemies. People shitting on the beach because of lack of bathrooms.

What documentary?

Who made it?

I think he talking about the Vice documentary....

General Bin Laden vs General Rambo vs General Mosquito Spray vs General Butt Naked vs Tupac Army

Comissioner going on the beach to shit with the people at West Point

Charles Taylor.

Damn, this is some out of the world shit. Good documentary