I’m not an uncompassionate feller, but I’m just past caring.
Our great, great grandkids will be asking the same questions about the plight of Africa.
A while ago I was listening to a Christian radio station and they were having some big fundraiser that was something like “give $100 and buy a well for fresh water for an African village.”
They had people on telling stories of how great it was that $100 could buy a well for a whole African village, so that the villagers could finally have clean water and how that would improve their health and so on.
So I’m sitting there and it hits me: PEOPLE. This is the 21st century. Trillions and trillions, gazzilions and gazzilions of dollars of aid have been poured into Africa, and you’re telling me that (1) there are still thousands of villages that don’t have ONE WELL FOR DRINKING WATER, and further that (2) for just $100 a village this pressing problem could have been solved yesterday, last week, last century — the day before the trillions and trillions of dollars in aid were poured into there. What are we thinking? What are the AFRICANS thinking?
You are very right. I do not see this changing.
I had a professor who went to school during the depression. They got 25 cents a day for food but it only cost 20 cents to eat three meals in the school cafeteria. At night a guy came around selling candy bars for a nickel. A bunch of do gooders organized a campaign to stop buying candy bars and instead send the nickel to buy a chinese kid food for a week. My professor said he kept eating candy bars and when the Chinese crossed the Yalu he didn’t feel bad about being 4f because he already starved his chinaman to death. Feed ‘em now shoot ‘em later.
Neah.
Your great-great grandkids will think that Africa has ALWAYS been part of China.