[lit-ideas] Re: If you dont like the crime in South Africa...
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:39:13 -0600
I've long been infuriated and profoundly frustrated that situations in
Darfur, Sudan, Rwanda, Sierra Leon, Zimbabwe, ad nauseum are occasionally
reported in the U.S. Media, but the govt. seems to have very little interest
in noticing or addressing them. I have queried this list about their
guesses as to why .... the answers, while sensible, do not really "cut it"
for me. If you get anywhere with this line of questioning, I'd be the first
to be interested.
Julie Krueger
On Dec 10, 2007 12:23 PM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Palma sent : http://youtube.com/watch?v=_G5bXsF2qQs&feature=related
>
> which shows a government minister indicating that
>
> "If you dont like the crime in South Africa..." [leave]
>
>
>
> Why is this state of affairs so under-reported? I only became aware of
> this recently. (Another provincial American, right?)
>
> As a postcolonial crisis, it seems that post-Apartheid South African
> state is worse than occupied Iraq or urban Brazil in murders. Yet it's
> not exactly an attention-getter in the US.
>
> Is it because the social disaster doesn't fit with our notions of
> progress?
>
>
> Eric Yost
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