blandyne:

THANKS A LOT TO ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It feels good to know that the nigerian people are thinking of us. You guys were ahead of me and are already posted all the links to where we can donate. Thanks Outstrip, SeanT21 and everyone else. Every little bit counts, and also we need your prayers. Please help us pray, As we all can see, it's really bad and we need those prayers more than ever. , This morning i learned that my little cousin died, he was only 8 years old. REST IN PEACE THIERRY I know that you are with GOD our FATHER right now.

You are welcome. RIP to that little angel. Gone too soon. I am keeping your country people in my prayers.

davidylan:

Absolute waste of time. I'm more perturbed by claims that Port Au Prince has no functioning hospital at present, no earth-moving vehicles for rescue operations, no roads, no emergency rescue services.

Donating "relief supplies" will not help Haiti stand on her two feet. It simply perpetuates the long-held opinion that blacks are in every sense inferior to other races.

stillwater:

So they should all die?

davidylan:

they had ample chance to prepare for such disaster.

davidylan:

they had ample chance to prepare for such disaster.

Allta:

Don't be such an heartless being ,  if UK experience the biggest Earthquake in 200yrs, international aid units will come to the rescue, even USA self, so why should Haiti or God forbid Nigeria be any different?

I wonder what your comment will be if you were to be from Haiti. This is not about inferior vs superior, it's about saving the lives of those left dying of hunger, knowing fully well that the govt aren't capable to cater for the situation.

You just come across as a type that wouldn't give a beggar or needy help/money/food because they should have gone to school and studied their ways through university shey? Bros, please change that your ideology, it's not healthy for mankind

davidylan:

Absolute waste of time. I'm more perturbed by claims that Port Au Prince has no functioning hospital at present, no earth-moving vehicles for rescue operations, no roads, no emergency rescue services.

Donating "relief supplies" will not help Haiti stand on her two feet. It simply perpetuates the long-held opinion that blacks are in every sense inferior to other races.

stillwater:

Not a good reason to forsake the poor in time of need.

davidylan:

they had ample chance to prepare for such disaster.

SeanT21:

Of course it is a waste of time to you. After all, you are sitting from the comfort of your home in New York. If you were that little boy weeping on the street unaided, you won’t be writing all this.

davidylan:

I understand your sentiments . . . but unfortunately you are wide off the mark. If UK experienced an 8.0 earthquake, they WILL survive WITHOUT aid because as a society they are well prepared to deal with such. Why are nations with majority negroid races always portrrayed as poor, starving and unable to survive without white support? Is it a coincidence that the poorest nation in the western hemisphere is a predominantly black nation? Haiti shares the same island with the Dominican republic but that country is FAR FAR advanced compared to Haiti.
Why is Haiti so poor and nothing more than a clone of Niger Republic?

Will relief supplies rebuild the Haitian economy? Will it provide essential services like hospitals, good roads, rescue services and jobs?

davidylan:

the poor ye have with you always.

davidylan:

I am grateful for my position in life . . . but i am more worried about how this reinforces the negative stereotype that blacks have an inherently inferior nature to other races.

stillwater:

Mark 14:7
"For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me.

Deuteronomy 15:11
For the poor will never cease to be in the land; therefore I command you, saying, 'You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land.'

Allta:

Davidylan, look , I beg to disagree with you that UK will "reject" international aids support when offered if they have 8.0 earthquake.

Allta:

Besides, that's not my point, you will never have a situation where every countries in the world are at par wealth wise. And emphatically speaking, not only black nations are poor countries in the world, go check your CIA records for more information.

This is not about potraying a race as poor nation, this is about saving lifes, whether white or black, if you care for that your dying neighbor, you will do everything you can to give what is needed to save their life, esp when you have what is needed.

What about the Sichuan earthquake in 2008, China? Abi China be black country? and did they refuse the international aids sent them? How about the International reaction to the 2009 Victorian bushfires in Australia, I don't even wanna spend time to look into countries like USA and UK, my point is, international response to helping natural disaster victims esp. when there is huge number of casualties, has no bearing with the colour of the skin of the people in the country or the valuation of their GDP. So the fact that the whole world rose to help the tsunami victims in India doesn't make India a black country in need of peanuts from the 1st world countries.

davidylan:

You're disagreeing with yourself because i never alluded to that . . . go back and read posts carefully before making unfounded allegations.

Good points . . . but they are not germane to the issue i was raising. The Sichuan earthquake in China, as devastating as it was, did not leave the Chinese completely helpless and dependent on foreign aid for mere survival. Haiti was already a disaster area heavily dependent on foreign aid way before the earthquake struck. Its just that many of you are only realising it today. Where were you when that 8 yr old boy had to go to bed hungry or eat cakes made from mud?

why are you all now crying about relief now? Haiti needed relief WAY BEFORE the earthquake.

davidylan:

I wonder when all this self-righteous requests for "aid" will end and we start asking nations to stand up and take responsibility for their own. I for one see no reason why Haiti has such a beautiful presidential "palace" but has only one hospital with no facilities, no electricity, no food, no roads, no emergency services.

You can keep donating if you wish . . . i will save my money for those who truly deserve it. If that makes me wicked then so be it.

Members of the negroid race have to stand up and decide they will NO LONGER be the scourge of the earth anymore. I get sick watching TV and seeing blacks being the ones everyone has to feed.

platinumnk:

For those outside The United States :

@David- I am really appalled at your reasoning, you want people to continue to die because of your arrogance?
Its really nice you're arent the ones looking for your family.

At the Haitian who posted earlier, May God be your comfort at this time.
Im still waiting on my friends report on her family there. .  

platinumnk:

says the one who lives comfortably. Are u going say the dying children dont deserve it either. And yet you are all over the religion board. .

Sigh

u think its only black people? David open your eyes!
My church has been on many mission retreats to places where black people are no where to be found.
Please use another baseless argument.

davidylan:

The Americans here make me laugh . . . i thought Bush and FEMA were at fault for Katrina? Why are you not holding the Haitian government responsible for neglecting their citizens? I wonder why you werent all soliciting for donations during Katrina.

davidylan:

This is just absolutely revolting self-righteousness as far as i'm concerned. Does the American government leave you to starve while China comes to your rescue? Why were you all attacking Bush for not coming quickly to the aid of those in Katrina? Couldnt you have waited for the UK and donations from the Red Cross?

Governments have a RESPONSIBILITY to those they govern . . . i am tired of black leaders abdicating that responsibility in favour of their people being fed by others who WORK HARD FOR THEIR OWN MONEY.

I repeat again . . . how many of you donation-seeking saints realised Haiti was already a disaster area LONG BEFORE this earthquake? Where you aware that Haitians were feeding on cakes made from MUD at least more than a yr ago? Where were your donations then?

This is a nation that has virtually no functioning hospital or emergency services . . . where was your Oxfam and Red Cross?

davidylan:

I wonder when all this self-righteous requests for "aid" will end and we start asking nations to stand up and take responsibility for their own. I for one see no reason why Haiti has such a beautiful presidential "palace" but has only one hospital with no facilities, no electricity, no food, no roads, no emergency services.

You can keep donating if you wish . . . i will save my money for those who truly deserve it. If that makes me wicked then so be it.

Members of the negroid race have to stand up and decide they will NO LONGER be the scourge of the earth anymore. I get sick watching TV and seeing blacks being the ones everyone has to feed.

SeanT21:

US has the money but Haiti does not. abi, stop all this back n forth and go and donate. Every little bit helps.