Originally posted by Campy61
Your not gonna like my opinion but I really dont care about aiding anyone in another country. We have people in this country starving and becoming homeless everyday, why should I care about people on the other side of the world that can not feed themselves?

Thinking like that is the whole problem IMO. We should all be brothers and sisters on this planet we call earth. Until we branch out further from this planet we will just never realize it.

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Nobody wants to admit it but it is about race, nobody cares about the starving brown people. But will break their backs to help the starving white people, see ? Nobody gives a damn.
Besides they need birth control, half the problem solved there.

Originally posted by Adyta
I look at the famine in Africa, and honestly, I'm done giving a damn. Why? I think we need to stop helping Africa because they REFUSE to help themselves. They sit in their mud huts all day and bang out a kid every nine months, and don't make any effort to learn anything that would help them. They just walk over to the Peace Corps tent 3 times a day and get their free food.

We've been sending them assistance constantly for decades. We send Peace Corps volunteers to teach them how to grow crops, build structures more advanced than dirt and water, dig wells, domesticate animals, etc. and they STILL cannot take care of themselves. The only conclusion is a complete unwillingness to learn.

We send UN troops to defend them against gangs and death squads, and they kill the UN troop for his iPod or his watch.

And you want ME to continue to care? You want me to feel bad for them? Look at every other nation on Earth, and you'll see it's only the African ones that have not advanced beyond the stone age... actually, they havn't yet even advanced into the stone age.

Africa had their chance. We tried to help, yet they refuse to put forth any effort to help themselves. Instead, they would rather starve to death on some of the most fertile farm land on the planet.

I say we just sit back and let natural selection run it's course.

edit on 7/31/2011 by Adyta because: (no reason given)

Somalia was a good example. We tried to feed the innocence and EVERYONE attacked us for it. That is the way it is over there. Warlords that steal young boys and get them hooked on drugs to do their biddings. They rape, pillage and plunder EVERYTHING. Long Sleeve/short sleeve is real and common practice.

What do you do? It all might become a waste land emply of people, can't say that would be a bad thing.

This might sound a little cold harted and unsympathetic but here goes, when you cant find enough food and clean water for yourself and life is a constant struggle for everyday survival then why the hell have children? surely this is just cruel, bringing them into a world where you cant make ends meet for yourself. Since i was a nipper its been all about africa starving, i even donated all my carol singing money to sir bob geldofs "do they know its christmas' so for the last 30 years this is all we have heard in the UK , another African famine, we have sent them millions upon millions, and nothings changed. Now when our own country is massively in debt, we have a real homeless problem and many families here are finding it hard to make ends meet it really is a case of charity begins at home. There just isnt the money around there was in the 90's and early 00's

If the Europeans hadn't carved Africa up into their own little fiefdoms in the last century without regards to tribal affiliation they might have stood a chance.

If their own people didn't capture each other and sell them to Europeans to be resold in America they might have stood a chance.

If their own governments did not steal every single dime they could get their hands on when they weren't busy committing genocide upon other tribes after Europe abandoned them they might have stood a chance.

If they maintained sustainable agriculture and animal husbandry they might have stood a chance.

If they didn't breed like flies on dog crap and produce a new mouth to feed every 9 months like clockwork they might have stood a chance.

If they didn't repeat the rumors of the witch doctors that modern medicine and crops are poison they might have stood a chance.

If they'd stop killing and eating each other they might have stood a chance. (Got video I shot of that in the middle of the street in Tubmanburg)

If they moved out of the effing desert to someplace where things could actually grow they might have stood a chance.

Now explain to me why I should care?

Originally posted by RanDeLv2
Where are you from by the way ?

New Hampshire, why?

Originally posted by Heartisblack
Nobody wants to admit it but it is about race

No, it really isn't... but thanks for showing that you lack the brainpower to come up with a logical response, so instead default to the race card. I bet you bring up race in every argument, don't you?

"Coke is way better than Pepsi"
"It's because Pepsi has a darker label isn't it? You're a racist."