What We Notice, What We Don't

 

Now I do not claim to normally pay much attention to the nation of Haiti but last night the President of Haiti was assassinated and the First Lady of Haiti was also injured and has been flown to the US for treatment and except for looking into it after seeing one post online I would never have known.   

There is a little coverage if you look and a few people using "Haiti is in our prayers" type of language but considering a president who was president of a country in our back yard (not that that should matter) just was assassinated full stop there is very little coverage.

(And some of the coverage just feels out of place when it basically says "well politically it has been complicated for a while, lets get our popcorn and see what happens next." That is not a proper response to an assassination in my opinion.)

For me it highlights how blind we often are to what is happening in other countries or other parts of the world. I do not know the political situation in Haiti right now but I do know that in general assassinations of any type tend to end up hurting those on the margins the most if only because law and order tends to sweep up more people.

So my heart goes out to Haiti as they navigate this crisis and my hope is that those on the margins are not the ones who are made to suffer because of this.