Originally posted by AnonymousFem
I think you will find I am a female, and not a male so yes your quite wrong on all your comments.

I think you misunderstood. I was saying the phrase "think of the children" is the brother to the race card. They are both lame attempts at making the other person look like an asshole.

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)

Actually you and your people as a collective are the reason Africa is primarily still in the state that it's in. But I guess it's easier to pretend you've been generously helping them for the last century than face up to the reality of your capitalist exploitation.

Its not that people don't care. Many americans truly do care about the rampant starvation that takes place in some of these third world countries.

And just so you know, we as a country have made great efforts in providing aid, only to generally fail to have the food ever reach the people who need it most.

Look up the Battle Of Mogadishu, and you'll see this first hand. I lost a friend in Somalia, an Army Ranger, who was there only to fight the rich and pwerful Somalian warlords who were seizing the shipments of food, and keeping for themselves, while hundreds of thousand of men women and children all suffered and starved to death in the streets.

When you lose a close friend to barbarian minded people who cannot see that our troops were there only to help them, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Its not as simple as just saying 'hey let's go drop some food to these people'

I strongly suggest watching or rewatching 'black hawk down'

Im going to tug the cynical line here and say that "people just don't care about black and brown people dying". While this isn't entirely true, most people just don't care about dark skinned people dying of hunger. This is not my belief however and I have been closely monitoring the situation in the horn of Africa specifically Somalia.

when i saw the bush clinton haiti fund commercial i had an awakening!! these organizations dont give money to these people.haiti is worst off than it was before the big earthquake. theres is a war on the black race and i know people dont really believe this. this is why i think barack obama is even in office. this is bigger than welfare or any sort of aid. it also explains katrina in our great country. it has been said that when the dna of the black race activates everything on earth will be affected in an instant for their 12 strands are so powerful it will make the earth tremble. tptb are afraid of that!!

You do recall the movie “Blackhawk Down?” that is a true story. The US and many nations do indeed send aid to Africa. However the current warlord in charge takes this aid for himself, and his army, leaving the populace to starve. So the UN decided to do something about it, and a UN force went to Somalia to stop the warlord from hijacking the aid shipments. Well all that happened was a bunch of US military troops got shot, quite a few civilians got killed in the crossfire, and the world had one more reason to hate the warmongering US. Every time there is some civil liberty issue in a country the world cries for the UN and thus by default the US to step in and fix it. However, when this leads to a conflict with the locals those very same people cry about how the US is oppressing the world and they should mind their own business. Unfortunately it can’t be both ways. If you expect the US to somehow force a corrupt regime to give the aid that IS going to the country to the citizens, there will most likely be violence and then the very citizens the US is trying to protect get caught up in yet another armed conflict. This is nothing new to most African countries mind you. This is a constant state of affairs there. The only hope for that continent is for the people living there to want to be saved, as it is it is far easier to live the life of corruption and greed. Until they can contain the greed and vice in the countries, no amount of aid will ever work.

Originally posted by 12 stranded dna
when i saw the bush clinton haiti fund commercial i had an awakening!! these organizations dont give money to these people.haiti is worst off than it was before the big earthquake. theres is a war on the black race and i know people dont really believe this. this is why i think barack obama is even in office. this is bigger than welfare or any sort of aid. it also explains katrina in our great country. it has been said that when the dna of the black race activates everything on earth will be affected in an instant for their 12 strands are so powerful it will make the earth tremble. tptb are afraid of that!!

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Not really. It is not my concern. I am more concerned about our problems here. Since I support ending ALL foreign aid, you should realize that I do not want the government to do anything about other countries issues. We need to fix our problems now.

I totally agree with this and I am not American. For over 40 years large parts of Africa have received AID yet nothing has changed. Africa is a welfare continent and until they start providing for themselves nothing will change.

Personally I would like to see all AID to every country stopped. I am sure someone will pipe up about how we kept them down used them as cheap labour and so on but I don't care it should not mean that we need to keep feeding, clothing and medicating large parts of Africa for the rest of time.