It's Christmas Time... in Zimbabwe!
Please close your ears for this one..
Oddly enough, some elder sacrosanct racist right wing christian bitch named Mrs Schwartz who came to the art sale with a friend decided to demonize the whole Zimbabwe fundraising effort, claiming that no relief in any form ever gets to anybody in Africa and that the African leaders are corrupt criminals who are killing their own people. "So," I wondered, "What's your point?" She started telling people in attendance not to donate to Africa anywhere. I think she was racist, and if she keeps doing this dark shit, she's just going to reincarnate as a starving black widow child orphaned from AIDS.
Wow, is that some weird shite? I know that the people in the Fundraising Society, which I will not name, go to Africa personally as care workers and feed goats milk to starving babies left in brown paper on the orphanage steps to help nurse them to BACK TO health; They build schools, but if the politicians and chiefs don't want their children to attend them, they pull them out, so the only ones left are the needy orphans who do benefit from some makeshift education and hopefully will not follow in those in humane footsteps. They run agricultural programs to help create sustainability, but as Mrs. Swan so quickly points our, they're not like that, they're different. They just take what is in front of them and leave when it's used up. Ergo, if you buy a goat for a village, when you leave, they eat the goat. Maybe they cannot feed the goat, even though they need the milk. That may be true at the level of over administrated Red Cross or dysfunctional UN politicos from the World Monetary Fund who are top heavy with administration and funneling funds to the corrupt politicians, but I know these people personally to do work in the field as well and to me that is different. So when this pot is calling the kettle black, I want to say to her, go to Africa, see for yourself, visit Africa, bring your trade dollars. Bring your goodwill. Leave your judgment at the passport office, Mrs. ex pat got an axe to grind over Rhodesia since 1965, when Ian Smith was telling us to just "leave them alone". Let them be and they'll come home herding their goats behind them.
In spite of this woman I managed to raise over $500 for the Zimbabwe village orphans and widows charity! God bless the wicked judgmental souls who feel oppressed by their own oppression. At this moment I feel caught up in my own feelings over this and may even be one of them.
She threatened to call the organization about this whole thing, but has since made profuse apologies over the whole damn thing. Apparently her husband eventually set her straight that this was not one of those useless organizations. She already left me a message since yesterday from my art business card, but I haven't responded, thinking what purpose could that serve?
I personally enjoyed doing the fundraising for Zimbabwe. It felt right.
That's the kind of day it's been. Sunny, but cold. It's going to snow tonight.
There are many such small and helpful organizations helping the world one child or kid at a time:
A Light for Zimbabwe
Catholic Relief Services
Zimbabwe Gecko Society
Practical Presents
Yet the Problem Exists with Lack of Abundance
People and animals compete for wild fruit
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three official languages: English, Shona and Ndebele. Zimbabwe began as the British crown colony of Southern Rhodesia, created from land held by the British South Africa Company. President Robert Mugabe is the head of State and Commander in Chief of the armed forces. Morgan Tsvangirai is the Prime Minister. Mugabe has been in power since the country's internationally recognized independence in 1980. Zimbabwe was formerly known as Southern Rhodesia (1923), Rhodesia (1965), and Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979) during the Civil War to Independence. The name Zimbabwe was introduced from ca. 1960 in the context of the unilateral declaration of independence, and used by the African nationalist faction in the Rhodesian Bush War, the Zimbabwe African National Union of Robert Mugabe, and the Zimbabwe African People's Union of Joshua Nkomo. Britain's Lord Soames was appointed governor to oversee the disarming of revolutionary fighters, the holding of elections and the granting of independence to an uneasy coalition government with Joshua Nkomo, head of ZAPU. In the elections of February 1980, Mugabe and his ZANU won a landslide victory. Elections in March 1990 resulted in another victory for Mugabe and his party, which won 117 of the 120 election seats. Election observers estimated voter turnout at only 54% and found the campaign neither free nor fair.
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Oddly enough, some elder sacrosanct racist right wing christian bitch named Mrs Schwartz who came to the art sale with a friend decided to demonize the whole Zimbabwe fundraising effort, claiming that no relief in any form ever gets to anybody in Africa and that the African leaders are corrupt criminals who are killing their own people. "So," I wondered, "What's your point?" She started telling people in attendance not to donate to Africa anywhere. I think she was racist, and if she keeps doing this dark shit, she's just going to reincarnate as a starving black widow child orphaned from AIDS.
Wow, is that some weird shite? I know that the people in the Fundraising Society, which I will not name, go to Africa personally as care workers and feed goats milk to starving babies left in brown paper on the orphanage steps to help nurse them to BACK TO health; They build schools, but if the politicians and chiefs don't want their children to attend them, they pull them out, so the only ones left are the needy orphans who do benefit from some makeshift education and hopefully will not follow in those in humane footsteps. They run agricultural programs to help create sustainability, but as Mrs. Swan so quickly points our, they're not like that, they're different. They just take what is in front of them and leave when it's used up. Ergo, if you buy a goat for a village, when you leave, they eat the goat. Maybe they cannot feed the goat, even though they need the milk. That may be true at the level of over administrated Red Cross or dysfunctional UN politicos from the World Monetary Fund who are top heavy with administration and funneling funds to the corrupt politicians, but I know these people personally to do work in the field as well and to me that is different. So when this pot is calling the kettle black, I want to say to her, go to Africa, see for yourself, visit Africa, bring your trade dollars. Bring your goodwill. Leave your judgment at the passport office, Mrs. ex pat got an axe to grind over Rhodesia since 1965, when Ian Smith was telling us to just "leave them alone". Let them be and they'll come home herding their goats behind them.
In spite of this woman I managed to raise over $500 for the Zimbabwe village orphans and widows charity! God bless the wicked judgmental souls who feel oppressed by their own oppression. At this moment I feel caught up in my own feelings over this and may even be one of them.
She threatened to call the organization about this whole thing, but has since made profuse apologies over the whole damn thing. Apparently her husband eventually set her straight that this was not one of those useless organizations. She already left me a message since yesterday from my art business card, but I haven't responded, thinking what purpose could that serve?
I personally enjoyed doing the fundraising for Zimbabwe. It felt right.
That's the kind of day it's been. Sunny, but cold. It's going to snow tonight.
There are many such small and helpful organizations helping the world one child or kid at a time:
A Light for Zimbabwe
Catholic Relief Services
Zimbabwe Gecko Society
Practical Presents
Yet the Problem Exists with Lack of Abundance
People and animals compete for wild fruit
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three official languages: English, Shona and Ndebele. Zimbabwe began as the British crown colony of Southern Rhodesia, created from land held by the British South Africa Company. President Robert Mugabe is the head of State and Commander in Chief of the armed forces. Morgan Tsvangirai is the Prime Minister. Mugabe has been in power since the country's internationally recognized independence in 1980. Zimbabwe was formerly known as Southern Rhodesia (1923), Rhodesia (1965), and Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979) during the Civil War to Independence. The name Zimbabwe was introduced from ca. 1960 in the context of the unilateral declaration of independence, and used by the African nationalist faction in the Rhodesian Bush War, the Zimbabwe African National Union of Robert Mugabe, and the Zimbabwe African People's Union of Joshua Nkomo. Britain's Lord Soames was appointed governor to oversee the disarming of revolutionary fighters, the holding of elections and the granting of independence to an uneasy coalition government with Joshua Nkomo, head of ZAPU. In the elections of February 1980, Mugabe and his ZANU won a landslide victory. Elections in March 1990 resulted in another victory for Mugabe and his party, which won 117 of the 120 election seats. Election observers estimated voter turnout at only 54% and found the campaign neither free nor fair.
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