![]() ![]() My first experience riding in a Tap tap a narrow truck that rides up and down the streets picking up and dropping off people at work and school, was eye-opening! There weren’t any windows, but I could see through the wooden planks on the side, and the back of the Tap tap was open that’s how people get off and on in the middle of traffic. It’s January I thought it would feel like summer, but it feels more like spring, and instantly I wish I had brought a jacket. The air in Haiti is thick, and if it had a color it would be gray-blue. Would you want to come to a country where there was a single narrative? Would you want o spend time in a country where everything was told from the same negative perspective Well, that is what has been done to Haiti.įrom the moment I stepped off the airplane and onto the tarmac in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, I felt like I was swimming through the air see, there’s something different about the air in Haiti. America is multifaceted with rich and poor, and good and bad. ![]() Imagine if the world only saw Americans as farmers in overalls, if the images of America were only of cows and chickens running in a yard while children play without shoes no one would ever know that America is also made up of bustling cities full of people. Imagine if you will the only images of America that the world saw, were the cornfields of Iowa. ![]()
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