Help for Haiti/Links of Interest

Here are a couple of links to charities active in helping out the Haitians:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34835478/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-help-and-info-open-thread.html

Have you heard the ridiculous victim-blaming Pat Robertson has assigned to the Haitians, specifically their "pact with the devil"? Here's a post from Shakesville regarding the lukewarm non-apology the 700 Club offered:

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-dare-you-question-me.html

I appreciate the note about disablist comments Paul the Spud includes. Although there are elements of self-delusion involved with Robertson's comments that are completely divorced from reality, it's not fair to write these off due to him being a "nutjob." Obviously, any person so caught up in their own privilege is capable of making such ludicrous claims like the victims being at fault for their own disasters. Oh, that reminds me of another link that details some of the reasons Haiti has been so disaster prone in recent history (and it ain't no curse):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_haiti_disasters

Sidenote: My xian auntie, whom I have blogged about before, was on a mission in Haiti and escaped just in the nick of time before the earthquake struck. I've been paying close attention to her FB page, somewhat salivating at the opportunity to mock her and her God if she mentions how much God was "looking out for her" since she escaped the disaster unscathed. This is wrong, I know! I am happy that she is okay, but I'd be even happier if this shook some of the foundations those missionaries believe in, as in, there is no robed figure looking out for us--we have to look out for ourselves. Yet, she calls for prayers and posts links to the missionary that "needs to do some more work" in the region. I just want to know why a just God would look out for the white missionary woman and not all those brown people...I'm really hoping she and some of my other religiously zealous family is not considering this "curse" as real.