Nura Magazine Fall/Winter 2016 | Page 14

Message by DC Attorney General KARL RACINE Pivotal Life Moments I am from Haiti. My family is Haitian. Five months after my birth, my parents decided to leave Haiti. There was a brutal dictatorship that was violating civil rights and there was a lot of violence. My parents were activists and didn’t want to raise their children in that kind of environment. They left my sister and I, settled in DC, and after getting established they sent for us three years later. What’s crucial about that is: 14 1. Being Born in Haiti 2. Being born to my parents 3. My parents’ courageous decision to leave their children, get settled, and then send for their kids Fall/Winter 2016 | NURAMagazine.com