The ‘me toos’
It is an ingrained attribute and only got worse after the illicit 44 stint.
A fearless forecast: Half of those hundred wells will be out of commission in five years. Anyone want to take me up on that? It is well known that the most cost effective aid to improve health in the Third World is access to drinking water. “Give to UNICEF or the kid drinks sewer water.” has the right tone.
He should have worn black face when drilling the wells.
“It’s kind of frustrating…”
…take a look at statistics of average IQs across the world. Maybe that has something to do with it?
I had a (white) family member who went to Africa as a missionary. I (sadly) told him that there were people there who were profiting from the misery he would see. I warned him that if he solved too many of the local “problems” (access to water, sheltering orphans, etc.) he would disrupt the power structure and someone would take action to restore the miserable environment upon which their superiority was derived. Ultimately, he was threatened with arrest and imprisonment for his good deeds. One dark night, he and his family were attacked on a roadway they were known to travel which resulted in a serious facial injury to his child. They got the message, quickly grabbed the passports, and bugged out. It broke my heart to hear it.
Billions in aide every year since as far back as I can remember and these shithole countrys don’t spend a dime on wTer amd sewer systems for their people.
I have 2 really good friends who are Hydrogeologist and go to Africa every year to help the people with water wells.
"“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
Bless their black hearts.
No biggie.
Rival tribes or regime goons will steal the wells anyway.
We should have never gotten involved in the slave trade, should have abolished slavery from the get-go.
It will be ironic when and I hope to god IF, the blacks living on those wells start genociding the Boers/whites.
Howie Longs son who played for Eagles is involved with such a project. Not sure of what part of Africa.
Awareness and advocacy doesn't get wells drilled or dug. It does mean cutting into the grift, though, so I see your real problem.
He solved the problem for you. Just say “Thanks” and be happy about it.
Truth hurts, don't it? Rather than attack the man who helped where the Kenyan government failed, how about addressing their ire towards their failed government and themselves for who they're voting for?
Nah, because that might actually SOLVE the problem. That's too hard!
Well, I can understand why they are upset.
Why, after so many decades of philanthropic effort in Africa, do they still have third world living conditions? Why aren’t they building infrastructure and factories?
I think it’s the culture.
For contrast, we aided Korea in the years following the cease of hostilities in the Korean war. They started out dirt poor, living in third world conditions, starving. But when we helped them, they thrived. Today, South Korea is an economic powerhouse. And they make addictive Kdramas (TV series) that have a following all over the world. They stopped needing any help decades ago.
Same with Japan after WWII.
It’s the culture.
“the stereotype that Africa is “dependent on handouts… and philanthropic intervention.””
It’s not a stereotype, it’s fact. Case in point: white Christian missionaries who go into African villages and drill wells for clean water checked back in on one such village later. The wooden handle installed on the water pump had been broken off. The villagers did not attempt to repair the wooden handle but waited for the missionaries to come back to do so, choosing to use unsafe water sources until then. That’s dependence and philanthropy.
They prefer $Cash$!!!...It’s easier to steal. It’s kinda difficult to find buyers in that part of the world for parts and materials stolen from a completely installed, functioning well.
Let Africa sink.
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