For those with a negative perception of Mother Africa...

[arctic]

African_shadows wrote:

<quoted text> I want you people to know the beauty of mother Africa. Africans are the most hospitable people in the world.

Africa is beautiful.
I think it's the only place I have
ever really wanted to visit.

I have followed the AIDS epidemic very
closely....world wide.
The large # of AIDS patients in Africa has nothing
to do with the ppl of the continent. It was
started there by an ambitious scientist who used
the ppl for testing a new vaccine. Unfortunately
for those ppl the vaccine was tainted w/this virus.

The ppl of Africa were just guinea pigs.

No surprise considering how these ppl have been
treated by other countries.

[Bar Fly_ok]

arctic wrote:

<quoted text>
Africa is beautiful.
I think it's the only place I have
ever really wanted to visit.
I have followed the AIDS epidemic very
closely....world wide.
The large # of AIDS patients in Africa has nothing
to do with the ppl of the continent. It was
started there by an ambitious scientist who used
the ppl for testing a new vaccine. Unfortunately
for those ppl the vaccine was tainted w/this virus.
The ppl of Africa were just guinea pigs.
No surprise considering how these ppl have been
treated by other countries.

Sad isn't it .... humanity can be so cruel.

[African_shadows]

Ignorance, CNN and other western media and Hollywood are all to blame for this!

arctic wrote:

Why would anyone have a negative
perception of Africa?

[African_shadows]

Dumb

reebie wrote:

<quoted text>
Hey! Hows my little Chia pet??

[African_shadows]

@arctic, Most African countries have been recording significant drops in HIV/AIDS infection cases due to massive awareness campaigns. Plus the ARVs help people atleast prolong their lives. It's good news and a first critical step in the right direction.

[Cool Hand Clem]

If its so beautiful and CNN and the media has lied,where is our money going?(or is that DUMB too?)

[Cool Hand Clem]

I would appreciate an answer FrankenPat!

[News Survey]

African_shadows wrote:

@arctic, Most African countries have been recording significant drops in HIV/AIDS infection cases due to massive awareness campaigns. Plus the ARVs help people atleast prolong their lives. It's good news and a first critical step in the right direction.

Significant drop in Aids = More people that had it are now dead.

[arctic]

African_shadows wrote:

@arctic, Most African countries have been recording significant drops in HIV/AIDS infection cases due to massive awareness campaigns. Plus the ARVs help people atleast prolong their lives. It's good news and a first critical step in the right direction.

Yes.

We have the UN to thank for a lot of that.
After they filed law suits against major pharmaceutical
companies to release the patent on ARVs and make them
more accessible to the general public.

Mostly it's the education. When ppl understand the
disease they can prevent infection.

[African_shadows]

Cool Hand Clem wrote:

If its so beautiful and CNN and the media has lied,where is our money going?(or is that DUMB too?)

Arvs and healthcare like ActionAid has really helped equip African clinics and hospitals. Training and research too. Mother Africa is very greatful to aunty America, aunty Britain and the other caring aunties out there lol. Seriously, ThankYOU!

[arctic]

African_shadows wrote:

Ignorance, CNN and other western media and Hollywood are all to blame for this!<quoted text>

Honestly I don't see it.
I've never seen bad news about Africa.

As far as Hollywood goes the only movies I can
remember about Africa is Blood Diamond and
Under the Sun (which btw used African actors).

Both movies (basically) were about the damage
the "rebels" do to the continent.

[African_shadows]

arctic wrote:

<quoted text>
Yes.
We have the UN to thank for a lot of that.
After they filed law suits against major pharmaceutical
companies to release the patent on ARVs and make them
more accessible to the general public.
Mostly it's the education. When ppl understand the
disease they can prevent infection.

Very correct!

[Cool Hand Clem]

arctic wrote:

<quoted text>
Honestly I don't see it.
I've never seen bad news about Africa.
As far as Hollywood goes the only movies I can
remember about Africa is Blood Diamond and
Under the Sun (which btw used African actors).
Both movies (basically) were about the damage
the "rebels" do to the continent.

Exactly but the REBELS are also Africans.

[African_shadows]

arctic wrote:

<quoted text>
Honestly I don't see it.
I've never seen bad news about Africa.
As far as Hollywood goes the only movies I can
remember about Africa is Blood Diamond and
Under the Sun (which btw used African actors).
Both movies (basically) were about the damage
the "rebels" do to the continent.

Yes, but these movies potray Africa as a whole as being violent and a hostile environment for everyone concerned. Some potray primitivity on the part of Africans themselves. The Gods must be crazy made westerners think that all Africans live in the bush like the Kalahari Bushmen. You know what I mean. On CNN, I stopped watching it. I prefer Quatar's Aljazeera English news. I have never seen anything positive covered by most western media. Just wars, famine and diseases. Nobody has covered the fact that Kenya has the newly completed Thika Highway which is an 8 to 10 lane superhighway making it East Africa's busiest highway! They'd rather focus on the wars in Congo and Sudan. Africans are perceived as very illiterate people in the world. Smdh. It's really unfair.

[arctic]

African_shadows wrote:

<quoted text> Yes, but these movies potray Africa as a whole as being violent and a hostile environment for everyone concerned. Some potray primitivity on the part of Africans themselves. The Gods must be crazy made westerners think that all Africans live in the bush like the Kalahari Bushmen. You know what I mean. On CNN, I stopped watching it. I prefer Quatar's Aljazeera English news. I have never seen anything positive covered by most western media. Just wars, famine and diseases. Nobody has covered the fact that Kenya has the newly completed Thika Highway which is an 8 to 10 lane superhighway making it East Africa's busiest highway! They'd rather focus on the wars in Congo and Sudan. Africans are perceived as very illiterate people in the world. Smdh. It's really unfair.

I guess you'd be correct about that.
We do see the bad and not the good most of the time.

I was surprised to see a program on Animal Planet
recently about the ASPCA in Cape Town.
Why it surprised me that Africans put the same value
on the lives of animals as we do I don't know.
(maybe b/c I know how they are treated in other parts
of the world like Mexico and the Middle East.)

But the ASPCA there did a great job of rescuing animals
from bad situations and helping to educate the public on
how to care for animals.
It was good to see.

[African_shadows]

I'm glad you agree arctic. People need to realize that not all parts of Africa are that primitive! lol

[Cool Hand Clem]

Exactly where do you live in Africa?

[I Am Enzo - The Baker]

African_shadows wrote:

I'm glad you agree arctic. People need to realize that not all parts of Africa are that primitive! lol

After reading your racist posts that resulted in your being banned last month I'm wondering how many more of your Mother Africans are bigots like yourself...

[arctic]

I Am Enzo - The Baker wrote:

<quoted text>
After reading your racist posts that resulted in your being banned last month I'm wondering how many more of your Mother Africans are bigots like yourself...

......why do I feel like I've missed something? lol

Good afternoon Enzo.
How's Monday treating you?

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Cool Hand Clem wrote:

Exactly where do you live in Africa?

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