Dead8

Live8 is on next weekend. It is truly an embarrassment and a hypocritical event. One would think if they are really trying to save Africa, they would at least put in a few Africans. Oh, yeah, they put in one. Even Jerry Lewis put a few crippled kids on stage for his telethons. Live8 has a bunch of rich whities asking people to go to a concert so the ministers will forgive Africa’s debt. What hubris (from delusion or hypocrisy, I am not sure) to think a bunch of has-been rock stars giving a few concerts will, in Bob Geldof’s words, “Make Poverty History”! That is just so very fabulous.

To call it naïve is too kind. To think that economic reform alone will save the third world is naïve. To think that more aids alone will save the third world is naïve. Live8 is idiocy, the same idiocy as “good hearted colonialist” in Victorian England!

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