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.
or so everyone thinks.
you see, Africa needs help(i assume you mean economically, as i do), like much of the world.
i’ve visted Africa and have discovered a shocking reality:
Africa is portrayed as a land of poor, crazy, and wild hoodlums fighting constantly over their natural resources-blessings from Allah ta’ala-in a huge war zone.
then it becomes our duty as the good ol’ warm-hearted West to helpem out.
…why hasn’t it occured to anyone that the Africans should help themselves out…
…is it because they haven’t tried..
no, they have and are, but they have 0% chance under the current circumstances
they just keep incuring debts and have no chance of trying to pay them off, even with their rich resources..they can’t challenge the opposing competition
so with this, it’s like an endless cycle..until……