[Livia]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

It wasn't about the colour of people helping, he was talking about the images shown on TV with little passive black orphans. The idea that Africans as swinging on trees until the white man got there has been prevalent for a while, which is where the "white saviours" stuff comes from. Don't have to go too far back in time to see any films showing Africans would show cannibal tribes with bones through their noses, when the actual history of Africa is completely different. They had bustling civilisations with embassies in Italy 500 years ago, ancient Egyptians were black Africans too.

Maybe a comic relief documentary about Europe's role in the modern plight of the continent might help people to see his point of view rather than "white people should stop giving money because one black person said something I don't like"

If Lammy was the first wounded black person to kick out at white people over their generosity it wouldn't be so bad... but this isn't an isolated incident. It's been a long time since colonialism... and they've had, since then, an almost continual flow of cash from people, a lot of whom probably feel guilty because of all this 'wicked colonialists' crap that's still spouted without ever the balancing argument of what's happened since.

Africa is a mess... genocide, FGM, piracy corruption... and we're no longer responsible for that. They're *******ing up all on their own.

I support a few charities regularly including MSF, the Red Cross, and I sponsor two children in India. And like I say... I will not support Comic Relief this year, despite Lenny Henry weighing in in Stacey Dooley's defence. I mean, it's not the first time I've seen her in Africa, hugging a black person and highlighting an injustice.... the interfering bitch, eh. Lammy made it all about the colour of someone's skin, the awful bigot.