Quote Originally Posted by bhallg2k
While everyone sympathizes with the plight of those who were affected by the hurricane, most Africans live their lives on a daily basis in conditions that are immeasurably worse.

The fact of the matter is that without serious outside help, only a handful of countries in Africa are in a position to truly help themselves. The deck really is stacked against them.
We have to take care of our own first, and we now have the worst national disaster in our nation's history.

We give plenty of aid. This is an extremly inappropriate time to talk about giving condoms to make sure that they can safely have as many sexual partners as they want in Africa because multiple sexual partnerships is part of their "culture". If their leaders are going to tell them that there is no relationship between AIDS and HIV, not use some of their rubber to make condoms, refuse to start digging up and selling some oil, etc., then there's nothing we can do. We're wasting our time and money. Just accept the fact that we can't change the world.

As the old saying goes, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink".