Sean Penn: ‘The Whole F***ing World Abandoned Haiti’

With as much campaigning as Sean Penn has done for Haiti, you’d think Haiti was his illegitimate child. Why does Sean have such a vested interest in Haiti? Is it because he has so much goodwill to give or is it because of white guilt and how warm it makes him feel to help those “less fortunate” than him or does he have some sweet land he bought that he wants to develop? Who knows and who cares because each time he shouts to the world, “Look at me helping this poor, sloven nation and look at you not doing the same,” I care a little less. Anyway, guess what Sean was talking about in Cannes the other day? During a news conference in Cannes for a benefit for the country, Sean went off on the media for not covering Haiti more.

“It’s not only celebrities who went for a day,” he said to a room full of journalists at the Cannes film festival, when asked about his long-term commitment to the country. “It’s the whole fucking world. It’s all of you.”

He added, “The reason we have Haiti fatigue is because there was never a commitment in the first place.” Yahoo

Yea, Sean is using his celebrity to highlight the suffering in Haiti and that’s commendable but at the same time, listening to a celebrity berate you for how awful you are for not caring probably isn’t the best strategy to get people to care. Especially when this same celebrity gets to head back to his mansion to bang his supermodel girlfriend.