I remember\nthe first time I was caught after dark in downtown Cap-Haitien, a sprawling Haitian city of a quarter million people.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I was at a restaurant with my 3 Haitian sons \u2013\nmy treat \u2013 and when we came back to my truck, night had fallen. Mikken said to\nme, \u201cYou need to drive as fast as you can.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
And why is that?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t want\nsomeone to throw a Coke bottle through your windshield.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
And why would someone\nthrow a Coke bottle through my windshield?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cTo protest the fact that\nCap-Haitien has no working street lights.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
OK. How is throwing a bottle through MY windshield a protest against the lack of working streetlights?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cPeople say, \u2018If we\nhad streetlights – if the streets were lit up at night – nobody would dare throw\nCoke bottles.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
It kind of made sense to me as it sunk in. The poor of Cap-Haitien had no voice. So they were trying to get the attention of people who had voices – the rich.\u00a0The fact that I had a truck to drive meant, in their eyes, I was rich.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
They figured I had a voice and some power that they could only tap into by\nlobbing Coke bottles at me.<\/p>\n\n\n
I think when Peter, James, and John tell the Apostle Paul that they want him to “continue to remember the poor”, it is a recognition that the poor can be forgotten<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
It can be easy to forget what is silent and invisible to us.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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