I Don't Live in Africa

"After all, a group of caring folks that are all about action and accomplishment surely have a few ideas on the subject, right? Let's hear 'em!"

OK, let's start with this one: When did it become our (mine and your) responsibility to feed Africa? What's that you say? Mountains of white liberal guilt over slavery? I hate to be the one to break this to you, but the vast majority (something like 90%) of Africans were sold into slavery by other Africans. Also, that was over 150 years ago. Pardon me if I have a hard time getting too worked up over something that none of my ancestors did over 150 years ago.

Or maybe you don't buy the white liberal guilt answer and think there exists some universal imperative to save Africa from itself. (Why are liberals always trying to save something from itself?) How is it that the imperative exists for Africa and not, say, South America. How about Asia Minor? Why aren't we holding live concerts to help the Nepalese escape the repression and tyranny of the PRC? How come the rock and roll glitterati aren't raising money for Mexicans in Chihuahua so that they will stay home and quit sneaking across our border?

Nope, the fact is that cynical as it may seem, what I posted previously is reality. This emergency to feed starving Africans is a manufactured event. It is manufactured so that liberals everywhere can have something to brow-beat one another, as well as the rest of us, and to provide a comfortable smugness and superiority plateau. In the end it is a cause to allow liberals to feel better about themselves. And they will. Regardless of the fact that none of this hustling by celebrities will solve any problems in Africa, wealthy, privileged liberals in America (and Europe) will feel better about themselves because they think they did something. And that's what it's really all about, isn't it?

Lots of bad things are happening all across the planet every day. We can't stop that. Evil exists. The answer to the question on why you don't see conservatives proposing a solution is that we didn't participate in deciding this was the single most important thing on which we should expend our energies, and we're not going to let you drag us into this one when we find numerous other emergencies far more pressing. Why do we think rock stars and/or liberals have sole possession of the emergency action agenda? Let's do something about the invasion of illegal aliens across our borders. Let's do something about the millions of children murdered each year in abortions. Let's do something to stop the emigration of manufacturing jobs from this country that throws thousands of people into poverty and subsistence each year. Let's actually take definitive action to end the scourge of Islamofascism. Our hearts bleed for the starving in Africa, but it is a problem not of our making. It has been going on for decades. It will continue, regardless of how many rock stars hold benefits. If doing something for Africa is so important, let's find them a long-term solution so they don't have to rely on the beneficence of white American liberals. But in the end, we won't jump through hoops simply because Bob Geldof or Bono decided we must.