Celebrity, wealth and status. It's what we care about. It's what we're sold on a daily basis and people are only too eager to buy into the whole fetid picture. Meanwhile....
"Darfur has been embroiled in a deadly conflict for over three years. At least 400,000 people have been killed; more than 2 million innocent civilians have been forced to flee their homes and now live in displaced-persons camps in Sudan or in refugee camps in neighboring Chad; and more than 3.5 million men, women, and children are completely reliant on international aid for survival. Not since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of displacement, starvation, rape, and mass slaughter."
Oddly enough I don't hear much about this on the news. I guess clips of slaughtered and starving Africans don't bring in the ratings.
SaveDarfur.org has a post called "Educate Others" that's worth checking out...
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Good points. I would also like to know why we care so much what anyone from "the View" says about anything. Why does this make news day after day? It's sad that every nonsensical, ridiculous remark that comes out of Rosie or Joy's mouths is headline news. Let's start being offended and outraged about things that really matter.
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