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Life's Hard In Haiti Right Now. And The Hardest Thing Is That The Future Does Not Lie With One Person.

There Is Something Human About The Way People React To And Identify With Suffering. There's A Lot More Empathy In The World Than We Perhaps Realize.

The Whole History Between Haiti And The Dominican Republic Is Complicated. We Share The Island Of Hispaniola, And Haiti Occupied The Dominican Republic For Twenty-two Years After 1804 For Fear That The French And Spanish Would Come Back And Reinstitute Slavery. So We Have This Unique Situation Of Being Two Independent Nations On The Same Island, But With Each Community Having Its Own Grievance.

People Are Just Too Hopeful, And Sometimes Hope Is The Biggest Weapon Of All To Use Against Us. People Will Believe Anything.

Jephthah Called Together The Men Of Gilead And Fought Against Ephraim. The Gileadites Captured The Fords Of The Jordan Leading To Ephraim, And Whenever A Survivor Of Ephraim Said, 'let Me Cross Over,' The Men Of Gilead Asked Him, 'are You An Ephraimite?' If He Replied, 'no,' They Said, 'all Right, Say Shibboleth.' If He Said, 'sibboleth,' Because He Could Not Pronounce The Word Correctly, They Seized And Killed Him At The Fords Of The Jordan. Fourty-thousand Were Killed At The Time.