Question: Why do Western do gooders feel they need to travel thousands of miles to help poor, starving people in Africa, rather than help the poor starving homeless Europeans and Americans on their own doorstep?
https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1398549739977822213
Europeans and Americans have told me how as kids they were reminded of starving children in Africa to shame them into eating. None ever told me of being reminded of starving kids in their own nations and neighbourhoods. Few thought that strange or were aware of the contradiction.
"Even prior to the pandemic, the situation had been dire with nearly 14 percent of the US population dependent on food aid, one in every six children not having consistent access to food and nearly a million suffering from chronic malnutrition".
aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/…
aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/…
"As Fanon argued, humanism was not only a highly politicized category complicit with the violence of colonialism: humanism was also a crucial part of the ideology and legitimisation of colonialism."
scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&…
scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&…
"Africa serves as a backdrop for white fantasies of conquest and heroism...: a nobody from America or Europe can go to Africa and become a godlike savior or, at the very least, have his or her emotional needs satisfied.'"
theatlantic.com/international/…
theatlantic.com/international/…
"Take up the White Man's burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child."
- Rudyard Kipling
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child."
- Rudyard Kipling
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