i read that george clooney and don cheadle are campaigning for darfur.
i can only wonder ... who are they campaigning to??
i mean, are they trying to convince the UN - again - to do something ... or to do more than what they are currently doing. are they trying to win over the american public or the global public? and what will winning look like? are they trying to persuade us, the public, to move to the sudan or just donate a dollar or two? and to whom would they recommend we donate the dollars (euros would be better but that's another blog) ? to UNICEF or to the Red Cross because currently the dollars those two organizations have are doing so much all over the world? look how much they did after and during hurricane Katrina.
or are george and cheadle campaigning to G-7 governments ... the United Way ... really ... who?
the Gap maybe ...
or is the Gap now on board since they have pictures of diverse people supporting their RED campaign .. oh that is for a different african cause (cuz AIDS is now an african disease) ... i get confused by all the ummm campaigning ...
the phrase struck me cuz the word campaigning is a political term ... and is darfur a political issue? and is there really a political body to campaign to or for .......... or is it just a human issue?
i absolutely support some kind of action in darfur. i think what is going on there - genocide - is just as evil as the way powerful nations turn their cheek to it. it only further supports my belief that the WORLD is racist and self-serving. i think if we campaigned for the world to view all of its inhabitants as humans we might make more progress and darfur might even fix itself. cuz right now, as follows with the fundamental basis of racism, people do not feel that these african deaths are worth breaking ties with political allies (as they did in WWII) and this sudanese genocide is not worth jeopardizing international relations between the U.S. and "the Sudan." this small chaotic situation is not worth resolving at the so called cost of creating a larger global-terror chaos. maybe if we stopped prioritizing victims and chaos we could stop suffering.
why is sudan in quotes ... well, you find me one person in the refugee camps who voted for the current "leader" ... and i'll take the quotes off.
i aint mad at cheadle and clooney ... not at all. i am in fact quite proud that they care about more than their next movie. i am glad they are using their public personas to draw attention to an issue that no one is doing ENOUGH about.
but campaigning? maybe it's the bbc's choice of words ............................... that makes a fight against genocide sound like an elementary school blood drive.
African leaders from right, South African President, Thabo Mbeki, Jakaya Kikwete, From Tanzania, Morgan Tsvangirai, new Prime Minster of Zimbabwe, King Mswati of Swaziland, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President and Arthur Mutambara, new deputy prime minster of Zimbabwe at the signing of the power sharing deal ceremony in Harare Monday, Sept, 15, 2008. The signers pledged to make the deal work even as violence among rival supporters outside demonstrated the continuing bitterness and monumental challenges ahead. The deal describes the seizure of the farms as irreversible and say Britain should compensate those whose land was taken. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi) You can read the entire article here.
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