The conflict of Sudan: Uprooting the black Africans

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by _Opi_

So America should only care about Black Africans when Arabs are involved, eh?

Why should we put the spotlight on ONE country in Africa when so many of its neighbors are dying as well; from civil war, clan-genocide, border wars, hunger, disease, paying off DEBT from our old colonization days.


hmmm...something to think about!

It depends on the scale of the problem at hand. The spotlight shines on the big disaster of the moment. How many Americans remember the tsunami?

The problem is that Africa is absolutely huge and the politics are so complex that we may never fix post-colonial issues. We should certainly keep trying-we screwed it up back then and are continuing to screw with it now by raping African countries in the global market.
Fixing Africa means going to each separate country and working through a diplomatic nightmare, stabilizing the government and economy and ensuring that it will not implode again once we leave. Cancelling African debt would a HUGE start. Right now they're just paying the interest each year and barely making that. There is no dent in the debt and there never will be.

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by centaur532

We should certainly keep trying-we screwed it up back then and are continuing to screw with it now by raping African countries in the global market.

Wait - "we" here refers to many 'Western' nations, and not just the United States, right?

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

Wait - "we" here refers to many 'Western' nations, and not just the United States, right?

Yes, all industrialized nations currently taking advantage of the third world. It's not just the US.

This is why I am a fair-trade-tarian. I will not touch coffee unless it's fair-trade certified and I'm trying to do the same with chocolate.