Bono et al prefer perpetual victim status for Africa so they can fly around in their private jets to lead hand-wringing ceremonies on how evil the west is.
I hope he saves the world in his private plane carting around his Louis Vuitton luggage and other assorted baggage.
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O'Bono Platitudes...
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
The less you know, the more you believe.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
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