The Wrong Message

One couldn't help but think that perhaps the cynics are right about the pop star's message going to the wrong people. It was almost as if the pop stars are unwilling to continue to perform liveaid and this was their good bye to helping the poor. Perhaps I am wrong, who knows.

Also it seems that there were no people of color except for the odd performer, except in Philadelphia and Africa. One can't help but to think that perhaps white people know in the back of their heads that they know what the world that they have created has helped to create Africa and the disparity and the death. Africa was not always poor, the indigenous people had of course dealt with periods of starvation naturally, but not on this scale.

Or to be alienated from their lands in the name of commerce that benefits western financiers and companies. I am not saying that white people are to blame for all of the problems or that white people are all bad, it is just that there seems to be a concerted effort in the past to have pushed for a kind of manifest destiny on the world.

However, it is sad when so many people suffer so that a few could benefit, and benefit really well. It is sadder when Canada which has benefited through taxes derived from companies that do business in Africa and who have grown as a result would pay so little back from its wealth.

It is sad when wealthy people are afraid of not having enough money to help poor people, that they want to stay wealthy. Myself I am thinking of becoming a refugee and heading to southern Canada so I could try and find a job. My government here which says it is trying to help Inuit, it seems are not hiring Inuit.