Live Aid/Live8

[wolf]

I don't give a shit about Africa, beyond knowing that's where gold and diamonds come from. No amount of "awareness" or money will change the corrupt governments and quasi-governments that exists on most of that continent. I don't think any siginficant "awareness" was raised regaring the whatchamacallit. I didn't go to the concert despite being less than 1/2 hour away.

[Tonchi]

I knew they would not disappoint me, and here it is in the paper this morning:


In Johannesburg, South Africa, some 40,000 people gathered to listen to the music and to denounce the selfishness of the world's richest countries.

"They owe us," said the South African pop star Zola, speaking of Europe. "They are the ones who brought slavery, killed our ancestors. If anybody must pay, they must pay us back so that we can have jobs and education."

"History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks," former South African President Nelson Mandela said after taking the stage in Johannesburg. "I say to all those leaders: Do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to prevent a genocide."


Well, maybe South Africa thinks they are unique, but I know they DO teach history there so somebody is chosing to ignore the fact that slavery was well established in Africa for millenia before the European whites got there. So was genocide. And both are alive today and flourishing without any help from us. In fact, when the freed blacks were sent back to found Liberia in the early 19th century, the first thing they did was set themselves up with plantations complete with their own slaves, causing a social rift which is ripping that area apart even today. Uganda and Rwanda have systematically carried out genocide in their areas without any white man in sight. You can buy any slaves you want in the Muslim black countries, and their governments refuse to do anything about it although the US and Europe have been protesting that for many years. African tribal groups can murder, plunder, rape, and devastate at their ease, and they resent our "interference". I think they ought to send Mr. Mandala to Dafur, let him tell his brothers there how much the white people are messing things up.