Tonight on Larry King Live, Wyclef Jean will be announcing his campaign to officially run for president of Haiti. Here is an excerpt from an interview he did with TIME explaining his motivation to run for presidency.
“If not for the earthquake, I probably would have waited another 10 years before doing this,” Jean says. “The quake drove home to me that Haiti can’t wait another 10 years for us to bring it into the 21st century.” Jean sees no contradiction between his life as an artist and his ambitions as a politician. “If I can’t take five years out to serve my country as President,” he argues, “then everything I’ve been singing about, like equal rights, doesn’t mean anything.”
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