Hollywood, Hip Hop and Haiti (Ezili Danto)
"Two things we know for sure: Hollywood and Hip Hop get media attention. And, for Haiti that translates into big media hype and megaphones for actor Sean Penn and rapper-turned-presidential candidate, Wyclef Jean.
Forget that people's trust and naive responses to celebrities-turned- scholar-on-Haiti and Haiti's future are unseemly and utterly appalling. Think: how may we use this upcoming and unprecedented 3-months media glare - the elections are scheduled for November 28, 2010 - to help the 2 million Haitians made homeless by the earthquake stay alive, sheltered, not in rotted tents but more permanent abodes, with water, food, medicine and maybe some jobs; push for the monies raised to be used for Haiti's domestic growth and the victims directly, for fair trade not sweatshops and poor Haiti subsidizing toxic Monsanto's future profits, et al and push to get rid of the poverty pimp NGOs, end the UN occupation by showing the failures, these last six-years, of the UN, the NGOs, Clinton, their repugnance?"
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