Bonbon Siwo gou, se lè grangou nan bouda w

I once met a high price lady of the night who told me she will not give it up too quickly to her sugar daddy. "Once you give him the candy," she said, "my price goes down to a few hundred dollars every time he needs me."

"Instead, I act like my baby daddy was my first and only one," she said. "I make him work for it a little, and every visit I get thousands of dollars and expensive gifts."

"By the time he gets the candy and my value goes down in his pocket, I already got three other suckers lined up, getting played."

It's kind of funny that I am using the example of a lady of the night to talk about a very serious issue that is affecting the Haitian people and their carrot-and-stick relationship with their so called friends (the International community) and the people they call their leaders, elected or De Facto.

Haitians are so used to the taste of "Bonbon Siwo" thinking it's caviar that they will most likely throw away the real thing if and when it ever arrives in their plates.

Haitians have been conditioned to accept just above the worst as "lavi miyò," just above mediocre as "pito sa pase malgre sa."

It doesn't have to be that way. I have been saying it for many years: Mande Bondye sa w vle!

Rule number one: You have to know what you want.

Read more: Relationship in Haiti, Haiti News Updates, Politics of Haiti

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