Exchanging psychotic words and ideas does nothing else than bring wars and further poverty.
If we want to address the issue of Mr Myers ( an unusual Jewish name by the way for an Irish) let us write ourselves or publish an article about what we contributed to the West, which by the way included black Africans which have introduced shoe machines for the West, traffic lights for their cars and blood transfusions for their soldiers in the field!
This we do without mentioning Myers or whoever. These people are similar to mass murderers who want recognition; in this case by shooting from the barrel of a pen!!! Mr Myers may also be a Black Irish and is writing out of frustrating xenophobic personality! ! Read the following http://wiki. answers.com/ Q/What_does_ 'Black_Irish' _mean
However we should really examine ourselves clearly as to why we are always in the same quagmire and not progressing as other nations such as the South Asians and the East especially china and the Indo-Asians? We can not raise "Cain" every time someone writes derogatory comments about Ethiopians Africans etc.
Maybe we can learn something from the Australians New Zealanders Brazilians and other new countries instead of complaining constantly!! Maybe every African has what I call "Chieftain Mentality" that is peasant to Leader ? and the reason we can easily be shipped as human cargoes or Mineral and Resources Cargoes.
How many of you who have shipped yourselves into slavery to the West (now a days you call it career or work) turned to your roots and helped the foundations of your countries the children? Every kid born since 1974 is now 40 years old at most. Imagine what the difference would have been???
Act now and help those who are helping and supporting orphanages and schools. Stop bickering overtime some European writes about our inadequacies? ?
Basliel Wolde Gabriel
-- AddisuTadesse@ aol.com wrote:
FYI: Was sent to Impendent Ireland. Lamb Chops Come from TESCO, nothing to do with the poor Sheep. A reply to Kevin Myers ““ Africa is giving nothing to anyone – apart from AIDS” *Addisu Tadesse,
Having read a column written by Kevin Myers with sensational title of “ Africa is giving nothing to anyone – apart from AIDS” I felt like replying immediately. Just for sanity check, I forward the article to a friend and told him my intention of writing a reply to his demeaning remarks. After reading the article, my friend called immidately and said, “Don’t!”. Surprised, I asked why not? “You are wasting your time” was his reply.
Feeling bemused, I said, what is wrong with educating another misguided soul about Africa . And continued to20say, there are many people out there, with narrow tunnel vision of the world, that need to be educated. Whenever possible, we African, have a duty to put everything in perspective to avoid misrepresentation of the reality. “Well, then…if you have time let me tell you” said my friend.
“Mr. Kevin Myers could be either attention seeking individual, like those guys who appear on Jerry Springer shows to say “Darling I was born a man”, or someone who has a closed mind, who would never understand”.
“Reading into the article” my friend added “Mr. Myer is probably the latter than the former” And continued saying, “let alone educate him with your single reply, you may even apply for a planning permission and build school on Mr. Myers head. And yet, I can assure you, he wouldn’t still get it” Then without stopping, he continues to elaborate what he meant. He said “Mr. Myers may jump out of his Egyptian cotton bed sheet and have a quick shower and dry himself with fine cotton towel.
Then he is more likely to brew an Ethiopian coffee to walk him up. Followed by a toast with Ivory cost’s chocolate spread. He may even afford a Ghanaian Gold necklace or Angolan Silver cuff lings. Then he may drive his 4x4 made of Iron, Cobalt, copper and titanium mined in Africa and roll himself comfortably using Liberian rubber.
Despite price hike, he has to stop by shell station to fill his car with Nigeria petrol to pollute the planet and make it inhabitable. At break time, he may smoke Zimbabwean tobacco, sweeten his tea with Madagascar sugar. And still he wouldn’t see Africa.
After having a well marinated and spiced meal with Kenyan Chile, he might finish off with banana milkshake and tropical fruits to add few pounds to his, most likely, an overweight stature” All the way, he can’t possibly see Africa until he snuggle back in to his cotton bed. Not because Africa has nothing to give to Mr. Myers --apart from AIDS - but he refused to see it”.
“In conclusion” my friend said “Mr. Myers is, like those kids who think lamb chops come from Tesco and has nothing to do with the woolly sheep”. Indeed, bless him. At that point, it become clear to me that it is better to have a laugh about it than engage in serious discussion to educate Mr. Myers -what Africa has to give to the world to import AIDS.
It become so clear to me that there is no point in mentioning more than 15 million Ethiopians are engaged in coffee farming to produce 100 thousands of tones of coffee, that he enjoys everyday, which earn them less than 300,000 dollars on world market. After paying for sacks and shipping there are left with nothing, to keep them going through the year. It is become obvious that it would be a waste of time to explain to him that the aid that the 54 plus African countries had received in the last 20 years wouldn’t possibly match the 20 billion euro economic aid that Ireland had received from EU alone.
Ireland got these money to bring Ireland to the standard of the rest of Europe, and yet, Mr. Myers, question the morality of saving a child in Africa through changes collection in churches. Since the likes of Mr. Myers are obsessed with self-aggrandization and righteousness for dropping few changes in the begging bowl, he could only see begging bowl of Africa , not what is in his fruit bowl.
Of course, how could he possibly see that every commodity he overindulge and pollute the world was farmed or mined by those “wild-eyed” children, who may grow up to have other wild-eyed kids to support cheapest supply of goods. No point to direct him to Pereto's economics that 80 persent of the world has to support the other 20 in the world.
Bless him, lamp chop come from Tesco and has nothing to do with the poor sheep. July 15, 2008
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