In the News Comic Relief

[Cougar377]

After David Lammy MP's comments, below, about Stacey Dooley's comic relief reports, I'll be putting my money to better use by choosing a UK only charity.

'The world doesn't need anymore white saviours. As I've said before, this just perpetuates tired and unhelpful stereotypes.'

 

[Stevebrooke]

I never give to either of the BBC fundraisers Children in Need and Sport Relief as it is completely unacceptable that they can put their weight behind these while other charities struggle. My donations go to two charities that both work in and for the UK.

 

[derek kelly]

I refuse to donate to anything that has over paid so called celebrities begging & bullying common working people.
It particularly turns my stomach when the same people are crying false tears for an emaciated child.
Band aid raised millions, comic relief has been beating the previous years total since it began yet still these villages haven’t got water or sanitation, still they haven’t got the vaccines that cost a few pence, wtf is all this money going because it’s certain that none of it is providing condoms.

 

[wildwill]

The world has poured billions into Africa over the years and still the ordinary people suffer. I'm pretty sure that widespread corruption takes care of most of the money, unless this changes it's a bottomless money pit.

 

[Pow-Lo]

I spent five months working on the coast of Ethiopia about a year after Live Aid, back in ‘86 if memory serves.

When we received our stores, a lot of the fruit and veg would be in paper bags with ‘gift of the government and people of ******land’ on them.* When we used to go ashore in Assab, the warehouses along the side of the (dirt track) road leading out of the port were bursting at the seams with grain, yet half the locals were starving. We saw a lot of it being loaded onto Soviet bloc ships.

We also saw certain locals joy-riding around in Land Rovers with ‘Bob Geldof’s Band Aid’ emblazoned on the sides. Some of the boys took pictures and sent it in to various national papers but no one did anything about it.

I’ve donated to UK charities only ever since, although I have given directly to some poor people when on the sub-continent.


*insert any one of about two dozen different countries.

 

[noobie]

Lammy is a poundland Al Sharpton and Al Sharpton is only worth £1.25.

People Like Lammy exist to create and maintain the colour division because that is all they can do, feed off hate. The anger he has should not be "why are white people throwing money at Africa for the last 50 years in charity events", but he should be asking the African governments, "what the fuck have you done with that money if your people are still starving, living in shanty towns and are poorly educated?"

Then his anger at the situation would be more accurately aimed.