tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339910176549966696.post5640361022691365441..comments2023-06-16T09:50:28.728-04:00Comments on I am a teacher et cetera: Is Change Possible?Jennifer Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01459363843692965338noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339910176549966696.post-37900622800768208622008-03-07T18:58:00.000-05:002008-03-07T18:58:00.000-05:00Wow! A very passionate response. Thank you for y...Wow! A very passionate response. Thank you for your comment, and although I can understand where some of your sentiment is coming from, I'm not sure I entirely agree. Although I agree that throwing money at a problem will not solve the numerous crises that plague the nations of Africa, I think it is even more detrimental to take the stance as you suggest to "let them sort it out." <BR/><BR/>As Elie Wiesel once quoted from the Torah, "Thou shalt not stand idly by while your neighbor's blood is shed." We have a responsibility to help our fellow human beings, otherwise we are at risk of losing our own humanity.Jennifer Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459363843692965338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339910176549966696.post-20484666092436838842008-03-06T23:11:00.000-05:002008-03-06T23:11:00.000-05:00That is the key, Americans, those who do not care ...That is the key, Americans, those who do not care about tragedies and those who call themselves philanthropists or humanitarians tell us we have to do something. Saying "Never Again" is not enough, we have to enforce it! <BR/>But then think, has this preacher ever gotten down from the podium and left a cushy life, to save people with no relation to herself at all. The truth is people hear about terrible things, and they say "My god, how can such things happen? How can the world let this happen?" People speak from a human position, a hypothetical one. The UN cannot resolve so many ethnic issues, so many tangled, bigoted, complicated violences. The truth is people don't want to get involved, we throw money at the problem and think we've done something virtous. But what can we really do? Giving money to Africans is not going to heal the scars of imperialism, the cicatrix left over africa is fragile. It is tearing again in places where people never stop killing one another. Politicians did nothing because we don't think it's our problem, we don't want our people, our relatives to die trying to keep a buch of homely africans from ripping each other apart. <BR/>It is callous, it is crude, put simply the world does not value africans as it does 1st world nations. We don't want to get involved, because it's labyrinthine. We don't understand why, we don't want to. I don't want to. It's a horrible part of the world, so many things have come together to hurt africa. The africa today looks beyond saving. How do we stop Darfur? How do we stop Rwanda? How do we stop the Congo? If we fight brute force and murder with the same, then it is whites killing blacks instead of blacks killing blacks. Money never reaches the right hands. Goods are stolen from the needy and horded by the strong. Maybe it's time to leave it alone, stop throwing money to the wrong places, stop interveneing when the dying ask us to. Western powers created Africa's problems, maybe its time we let them sort it out. It's horrid to say, and few would speak in favor of it. But letting africa sort out africa may be exactly what a shattered land needs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com