Raising awareness is fine…but then what?

Once people are aware of a problem what are they supposed to do next?

I wrote to a couple of charities suggesting we get some money together and hire Executive Outcomes or Blackwater to go and kill Joseph Kony and the LRA.

They failed to respond to my inquiry.

I am tired of middle-class liberal charities that only aspire to “raise awareness” and follow it up with letters to the newspaper or your local MP or MLA.

The other option is to send over things like bags of corn to Africans living in refugee camps.

You know what?

They don’t need bags of corn…they need their own AK-47’s.

Anyway…check out this article…

An interesting fact about white people is that they firmly believe that all of the world’s problems can be solved through “awareness.”  Meaning the process of making other people aware of problems, and then magically someone else like the government will fix it.

This belief allows them to feel that sweet self-satisfaction without actually having to solve anything or face any difficult challenges.  Because, the only challenge of raising awareness is people not being aware.  In a worst case scenario, if you fail someone doesn’t know about the problem.  End of story.

What makes this even more appealing for white people is that you can raise “awareness” through expensive dinners, parties, marathons, selling t-shirts, fashion shows, concerts, eating at restaurants and bracelets.  In other words, white people just have to keep doing stuff they like, EXCEPT now they can feel better about making a difference.

Raising awareness is also awesome because once you raise awareness to an acceptable, aribtrary level, you can just back off and say “Bam! did my part.  Now it’s your turn.  Fix it.”

So to summarize – you get all the…

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/23/18-awareness/

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