"A second, small observation: When Mrs. Goldblog and I were living in Liberia, one of the best jobs to be found in Monrovia for actual Liberians was at a makeshift car-washing center near UN headquarters, where, every day, dozens of brilliant-white SUVs -- Toyota Landcruisers, mainly - belonging to the dozens of NGOs in town were scrubbed clean of mud. It was a bizarre thing to see, these $50,000 vehicles belonging to "non-profits," flyspecked by Liberians the NGOs were ostensibly there to help.
There are brilliant people working in development all over the world, of course, but the system of incentives is worth examining, and so too are the assumptions about the utlity of many aid programs. More on this when I return from my travels."
There are brilliant people working in development all over the world, of course, but the system of incentives is worth examining, and so too are the assumptions about the utlity of many aid programs. More on this when I return from my travels."
- Jeffrey Goldberg
The Empire continues to talk back, albeit sheepishly and timidly. But they are in on our game... Jeffrey Goldberg tries to remind us here that The White-Savior Industrial Complex=The African-Victim Industrial Complex is real and symbiotic. They all feed off of each other. There is no excuse, we don't have to be beggars, scrambling for crumbs at the white man's table. But we are there. And blaming the white man for dragging us there! What chutzpah!
- Ikhide
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