Help or Help Destroy

Lately, as any reader could pick out, I have caught an interest in the situation of Africa. It has become more than just sympathy. The climbing death rates due to the gluttony of war, the unforseen famines, the impact of the plagues have all come together to be one in Africa. Blame it on the Africans, as many of you may, but afterall, they are people. People of dreams, people of character, children of the world.

This problem is not just theirs, it ours. Africans deserve rights to live just as we do but it seems that as time passes, we have overlooked their rights; it seems that afterall, Africa has become the crater of the earth; it seems that due to time, Africa has been forgotten. Our vain knowledge on Africa has forced us away from "their" situation. Our vanity on this issue has caused us to ignore... or rather accept the fact that they are being deprived of their God given right to survive. Ignorance has caused us to shut an eye on this death-infested nation.

One man's death in North America is a tragedy grabbing all attention of the world. A celebrity is married for the third consecutive time, plagued only by her excessive amount of money, is posted up on every issue of every magazine. A notorious actor passes on of old age, having comfortably lived a life of 80 and the world weeps for his death. I can't fathom the reasoning behind such a thing when tens of thousands of innocent men, women and most of all children suffer excrutiating deaths while millions of others suffers excrutiatingly. I can't grasp the reasoning behind inaction when you understand that there's a child somewhere in Africa crawling on his elbows and knees to reach a food camp seven miles away while a vulture waits on yet another prey. I hear politicians preaching to voters righteously about lending a hand; not helping the positive is encouraging the negative. Men and women shout and cheer wildly for such a speech yet I don't hear of an action taken to help those who are in most desperate need. The world (or at least the first worlds) send out such a strong message to people... Help those in need or forsake them.

Are Africans not as much people as we are? Are Africans not in need, in fact aren't they in THE most desperate need? Are Africans not dying of starvation? Aren't many parts of Africa in a state of war or rather hasn't it become a slaughter-house? If so, why aren't any effective measures taken to help them? There are only two options the world has to offer; either help or help destroy. Apparently, the world has chosen the latter.

One man's death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.