News- no, it's propoganda

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I have an answer for you regarding Africa, scaeagles, but maybe I should just keep it to myself.

I'd be interested in hearnig. Seriously. Unless you're afraid you're too uneducated and might receive a rebuke.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I'd be interested in hearnig. Seriously. Unless you're afraid you're too uneducated and might receive a rebuke.

Well, I know I'm not all that edumacated. No delusions there.

I think it's a race thing. Totally. I know I may get lambasted for that, but I think it's true. I think as enlightened as we seem to be, this country still has many problems. Race is one of them. If there was genocide going on in a white country where the people getting slaughtered looked like people in one's own suburb, the television coverage of the events would hit home to many more people. I'm not saying everyone in our country is racist, but I'd say a good portion of it is.

Sorry for the derail.

[Stan4dSteph]

Which African conflict are we discussing? A lot of the conflict in Africa is traced back to tribal conflicts, pre-colonization.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph

Which African conflict are we discussing? A lot of the conflict in Africa is traced back to tribal conflicts, pre-colonization.

I was talking about pretty much all of it. I was referring to the lack of focus the US media and politicians seem to have about the thousands and thousands of people dead from genocide, disease, famine... ie. Rawanda, Somalia.