As 26 year-old Haitian Marie Lacrete told the Christian Science Monitor:
“I don’t have a problem with Wyclef, but he’s not the right person to be president. He’s a musician, not a politician,” says Ms. Lacrete, adding that the singer didn’t graduate from college.
Lacrete, who has a degree in agronomy but works as a secretary, said that Haiti’s problem is that the right person is never in the right place. “Still, people will vote for him, because he has money and he’s popular and because they don’t know what they are doing.”
Given the history of our presidential elections, not knowing what they are doing seems to be a common flaw of the electorate.
Without even referring to his Yele Haiti Foundation scandal, Lacrete later states:
“He can’t even manage an enterprise properly,” Lacrete shuddered, talking about the Haitian TV company Telemax, which she charges has been “going down” since the singer became a shareholder. “How is he going to manage Haiti?”
How indeed?
Related ProHipHop Coverage:
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More Bad News: Gawker Obtains Internal Documents from Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Foundation
Russell Simmons Obfuscates the Yele Haiti Issue While Gawker Has a Better Idea
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