Not Quite Charitable

"... [A] good chunk of African countries have the most mediocre leadership ever to sully the face of this planet. We have fellows who buy themselves 400,000$ colossal cars and a week later are at the IMF gates with hats in hand. I dare say if these schmucks had strong grips attached to their trouser seats and they were bounced down the front steps they'd be forced to live within their means. Aid paid to most countries goes straight into numbered Swiss Accounts." - RoomThinker

A thinker who advertizes himself as an all-Black African, obviously an intellectual and a man with smarts, resident in and blogging from Kenya, is the someone who has the fortitude to make the statement above. Putting that in the open, so sweepingly and convincedly, allows those not from his milieu with questions regarding Live8, Christian Aid, and Make Poverty History 2005 to get past certain of the uncertainties about the Geldof proposal to white-sing the G8 into a pro-Africa state of mind. That means, RoomThinker gains an uncontested space, a thawt-space, to make the argument (to some degree tellingly) that the West is for the most part to blame for the economic impasse in Africa.

[via refWrite, emphasis mine]