The New Racism
When self righteous global warming clowns fail to get your goat, try these hysterically clueless poseurs who want to “save Africa”.
This is the West’s new image of itself: a sexy, politically active generation whose preferred means of spreading the word are magazine spreads with celebrities pictured in the foreground, forlorn Africans in the back. Never mind that the stars sent to bring succor to the natives often are, willingly, as emaciated as those they want to help.
Perhaps most interesting is the language used to describe the Africa being saved. For example, the Keep a Child Alive/” I am African” ad campaign features portraits of primarily white, Western celebrities with painted “tribal markings” on their faces above “I AM AFRICAN” in bold letters. Below, smaller print says, “help us stop the dying.”
Patronization is a hallmark of the white guilt set. The richer than thou, hence wannabe holier than thou types, who love to lecture but live a life as Bacchanalian and regressive as it gets. After all, walking the walk was never in their intentions.
But casting a whole continent as helpless, ignorant chumps who need rich white people to save them is the new racism. The racism that “cares”. It’s kind of like all those sickening Apartheid movies Hollywood churned out in the 80s and 90s. You know, the ones where black people were being abused by the evil white government, and it takes a white liberal to teach the natives how to struggle for their freedom. Even the ones on Biko and Mandela always had some whit liberal guy (usually with curly hair) helping the black man.
People of color are capable of doing things for themselves, I know this may come as a shock to some. But lots of places in Africa are doing fine. This continued bashing of a whole continent, when the problems exist in mere countries, is nothing more than jingoism. I mean, what is Africa known for besides Giraffes and Zebras?
It’s time some of these mentally and morally challenged celebrities get a clue and quit painting an entire continent with the same brush.
GOD! I’ve been hearing about saving Africa for what, twenty-two years now? That news getting to be a pain in the ass.
And I also seem to recall a certain country’s military kicking the asses of its neighbor which was making Islamist inroads into their country. Didn’t need our help for said ass-kicking either.Posted by Macker on 07/16 at 02:56 AM
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