Dec 03 2007
Showing poor Africans degrades?
a compliant: oh and i understand ur trying to spread the word of human suffering. im just advocating that u instead try to expose the root cause of the suffering. showing a starving child doesnt have any effect anymore. it just shows africans as subhuman, undignified people. and being african, i take a lot of offense to that.
im just saying, showing starving children wont have any effect anymore. and africa is much more than a place of suffering. but whatever, u obviously are content with “helping” africa. so u can carry on with this. good luck.
My turn on it:
*Trying* to point fault at a picture is asinine.
Helping people in no way degrades the people being helped. People less fortunate have a right over those who can help. People who hold a belief in contradiction to this do so because they have a sense of arrogance and false pride and are ashamed of poverty. Wealth is not a measure of the greatness of another, rather a measure of responsibility owned to others less fortunate, and this is what this group is about. Africa needs help (I been to the good part too, Egypt and they need help too) and denying the fact with false pride only perpetuates the neglect that has reigned supreme over this continent and brought it to such a condition in the first place.
