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Re: Live 8
I'm watching the concert now.
I wish I could be optimistic enough to believe that everything will change but there's so much corruption and so much doesn't get to those who really need it.
I've been reading about the last 100 years or so in Africa and how the problems whch exist today have been created. So much needs to change.
At least this has brought the problems more to our attention and one of the things I hope for is that this country doesn't deport people back to a certain death in Zimbabwe. I know that's only one African country but there is so much corruption that we probably don't even know about too.
20 years ago with Band Aid and Live Aid I was so full of optimism that the world was going to be changed and for a few it did. Did you see the young woman who was one of those starving babies who would otherwise not have survived? At least it changed for her, and hopefully many others yet there is still so much suffering and a great deal of it manmade from within Africa itself. Can that be changed? I really do want to hope so.
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