Say Anything brings us this story which exposes the colonialist racism hidden behind the chronic do-gooderism of Bono’s much lauded activism for Africa. Bono was in attendance at a tech conference in Tanzania, where organizers hoped to show a different kind of Africa, one of stability and investment opportunities. Bono likes his Africa kneeling to Europeans and begging for sustenance, as his childish behavior shows. From Technology Review:
But the second, more interesting theme–echoed by every speaker–is that traditional aid and charity, whether distributed by nation-states or nongovernmental bodies, have failed. Andrew Mwenda, a Ugandan journalist and social worker, now a fellow at Stanford, made the case most strongly. He argued convincingly that 30 years of Western aid to Africa has achieved nothing at all. More, he said that the persistence of African poverty could be explained, in part, by aid. He explained that aid had convinced the brightest Africans to work for corrupt governments rather than as entrepreneurs, and it had “distorted the incentive structure.”
“What man or nation,” Mwenda asked, “has ever become rich by holding out a begging bowl?”
Far better, he said, is finding Westerners to invest in African entrepreneurs or businesses, which would create wealth. Mwenda, like other speakers, described at length the investment opportunities in Africa. (I half expected the pitch to be directly addressed to Doerr et al.)
This line of argument enraged Bono, however, who began heckling Mwenda.
“Bollocks!” he shouted. “That’s bullshit.”
Bono is a strong supporter of intelligently managed aid. When it came his turn to speak, he said that Ireland’s current prosperity is explained by government investment in its people, particularly education. He said that listening to Mwenda was like listening to an African Margaret Thatcher.
Oh, and everything you’ve heard about Bono’s height is entirely true: he really is remarkably short.
So Bono thinks it would be Bollocks to have African countries self reliant and unbeholden to White Europeans. Bono thinks it’s bullshit for Black Africans to have dignity, prosperity and the respect of the world by using investment to become part of the first world. Bono thinks Margret Thatcher, who created much of the wealth the English are now pissing away, is a horrible example for Africa to follow. Instead they should line up, tap dance and get their free hand outs.
Bono, like anyone who thinks U2 is punk (it’s not) is white trash. A rich P.O.S. who enjoys the feeling of power he gets when the head of a sovereign state comes to him and says “Please help me beg Europe for money to feed my people.” He doesn’t want those people to be able to feed themselves, he doesn’t want Africans to be equal to his precious White Ireland. He wants a continent of servile, downtrodden peons who are sexually abused by U.N. “peace keepers” and massacred by Arabized Jihadists. He wants a blood drenched starving Africa that sends envoy after envoy to his mansion to beg him to help them beg.
When an African declares he wants to be independent from Whites, that relying on the supposed largess of Whites is poor public policy, Bono goes on the attack. Why is that?
Because like all White liberals Bono’s a racist. he wants Blacks to depend on him because he doesn’t want Black Africans surpassing him. He wants them on their knees, with chains of aid binding them to his whims. He doesn’t care about Black Africans, he just wants them to have to care about him.
