Mr. D I am a proud member of Cuba's Fuerzas Humanitarias. In...

Mr. D

I am a proud member of Cuba's Fuerzas Humanitarias.

In that capacity, my colleagues and I were dispatched to Haiti in 2008 on a humanitarian mission.

In the year we spent there, I was encouraged to and did engage in many, many socio-political discussions/arguments/heated discussions if you will, with many, many Haitians: some never revealed their names.

Needless to say, we disagreed more than we ever agreed.

But never, ever was I challenged to a "fist fight" as a way of settling a score.

Neither was I ever called upon to "grow a pair" or taunted to a size comparison.

I find Mr. Sajous' reaction strange and his retort, quite simply indefensible.

Why Mr. Sajous latched on to Mr. D's name as a basis for derision is beyond logic but consistent with elitism.

When one puts oneself out there in the public eye one should take care to build a thick skin and stay out of the kitchen if one finds the heat too much to bear. The public is entitled to critique movies as well as question the motivations of the producers/directors, etc. in making the movie, just as the public does for any other artist/entrepreneur/musician and so on and so forth.

I am not American, true, and in my country we don't have celebrities but even zipping through airports it's impossible to miss the many many magazines that make billions off the exploitation of the public and private lives of "wannabe, or self proclaimed, as well as bonnafide" celebrities.

If "celebrities" for lack of a better word spent their time calling for the growth of "pairs" etc., they would not spend much time earning a living.

I respectfully suggest that JCS is the one who should back away from the laptop or just think a bit...show business is a CHOSEN profession!

By the way, I did not see the movie, but I was given a bootleg and was told that there would be no other release...ironically by a very well to do Haitian physician who had just returned from Martinique and was handing out several as we prepared to leave ...he claimed to have purchased them from a street vendor in Martinique.

I am hoping the Haitianos de Santiago will translate for me.

As they say that is my "dos centavos"...

Alejandro de la Marquez-Dominguez ...

(de Cuba y a veces de Jeremie).

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