Haiti and Her New National Melody (NNM)
The New National Melody has already become a force to recon with in the quest for change in Haiti. The group first started in 2010 on face book with a message that resonates well with the diaspora and with local youth. The movement is micromanaged by the recording artist, educator, activist Louinel Jean who resides in Jamaica. Many critics consider Jean‘s patriotic activities as his warming up towards electoral office in Haiti. But he insists that his number one goal is to help in the emergence of a NEW BREED OF LEADERS to help redirect Haiti in the 21st century. The NNM rejects the traditional political class of Haiti completely and seek to promote a radical abandonment of such establishment. The group considers that Haiti’s traditional politicians have failed miserably, that the time has come for a radical turning point in the country’s history.
The Haitian people need significant change in the trends of leadership in the country. It is the attitude of our politicians that has made Haiti what it is today, the casualty of the western world. Jean argues that the traditional political class has made Haiti a zone of no expectation, no accountability, and rampant corruption. They have managed to plunge the country in such a constant crisis of credibility causing the people to be encapsulated in a deeply alarming psychological deficit.
The problem
The Haitian people always go to vote when they are called to do so, but the political class or elite always have a plan to crush their attempt. When the people vote mayors, our cities move from bad to worst, when we vote parliamentarians it is only to see them engaged in other agenda often so remote to the basic needs of the people. When we vote a president we simply provide a paradisaical ticket for his friends and family. To test the authenticity of these facts, one would just need to take a trip to Haiti and try to understand the role of government, and it would immediately be evident that governance is definitely not a word in the dictionary of Haiti’s traditional ruling class.
We could also refer to this consortium of politicians as the political gang or mafia power house of Haiti whose only achievement so far has been violence, corruption, strife, and the proliferation of national crisis often left in the hand of the international community to solve with very limited or no provision for the population. The dilemma is that we have had too many leaders who are satisfied with the personal pleasures of power and, worst of all, blind to the evident sufferings of the poor.
The solution
It was therefore judicious that we got engaged in this electoral process to help elect, among the legion of political interests, President Michel Martelly who is our militant musician for the cause of change. We, the Haitian people know well that Mr. Martelly is not a politician in the conventional definitions of world politics or Haitian politics in general, but he is our choice this time. He represents our clear rejection of the politics of division and poverty, a kind of politics which we classify as the cacophony of the gerontocratic order in Haiti, to embrace a NEW NATIONAL MELODY to start shaping a better future for our next generations.
We are engaged with all our strength to help government find harmony with the aspirations of the people, government by the people, for the people and with the people. We don’t need a president to blame at the end of every five years or during his mandate to plan a coup d’état. We need an active citizenry who understands their role in a true democratic society. We are fully engaged with the diaspora and with Haitians in Haiti to sharpen a true Haitian dream; and with the support of our neighbors and partners of the international community to help salvage Haiti from the deep waters of poverty and despair she is in.
Already the mobilization and initiatives towards change are amazing. The level of celebration which replaced the anticipated violence after the results of the election was a clear message that when leaders do their part transparently and with the proper dose of integrity the people rejoice. But when corruption is the ruler of our events we can expect them to be marred with the full force of popular anger which often worsens our conditions. The last time I checked, both NNM and the Haitian people at large do not need that.
The ardent call
NNM is open to Jamaicans and other CARICOM citizens who wish to support our projects in Haiti. We are one family and now we know that we can find synergy in our dreams and our desires to see a more just and humane Caribbean community. We can create the new high ways of solidarity if we allow the power of love to continue to guide our path.
We cannot stop thanking the citizens of Jamaica as well as the Jamaican government who have done so much to help our people after the earth quake last year. As a resident of Jamaica, I took note of your good hearts and great compassion for the Haitian people. May God continue to bless our nations greatly!
We take it upon ourselves to send this message to the world and to everyone who has gotten a chance to read this article, that Haiti is now ready for business; she is ready to stand in her rightful position as the mother of freedom in our region. She is ready to dance again to the rhythm of true democracy and speak again even in the words of our great brother, Martin Luther King Junior “free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.”
VIVE LA NOUVELLE MELODIE NATIONALE! VIVE LE PEUPLE HAITIEN!
Louinel Jean (Recording artist, Activist)
President/ Founder of the NEW NATIONAL MELODY OF HAITI (NNM)
Contact
icmnloui@hotmail.com
876-4826584
