Haitian Wall of Shame

"Les linges sales se lavent en famille" (dirty linen should not not washed in public) How many times in the Haitian community do you hear people say that? It's their way of saying STOP talking about what makes me feel ashamed of myself and my country. But how will people know you're in pain if you don't scream???

While you want every Haitian who wish their lives were a little better to NOT talk about what makes you feel ashamed, that Haitian brother or sister is living in a condition that, unless he kicks and screams and exposes it for all of us, including the government and the world to see and do something about it, his situation will never change for the better.

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In November 2011, Guerdwich Montimere, the Haitian man who posed as high school star basketball player Jerry Joseph in West Texas was convicted and sentenced to 3 years behind bars.

Guerdwich Montimere, ALREADY a Naturalized U.S. Citizen, and a high school graduate in South Florida, decided to go to West Texas, pose as a homeless illegal immigrant teenager from Haiti named Jerry Joseph, and re-entered high school, and re-lived out his dream as a high school Basketball star.

If this the first time you hear about this, read: Guerdwich Montimere - The story of Haitian High School Basketball Star Jerry Joseph In West Texas

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