Comments on: I am African: Is it accomplishing it’s goals or just offensive? http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/2006/08/30/i-am-african-is-it-accomplishing-its-goals-or-just-offensive/ Thoughts on the Journey Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:58:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: William http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/2006/08/30/i-am-african-is-it-accomplishing-its-goals-or-just-offensive/#comment-3909 William Sat, 02 Dec 2006 06:35:02 +0000 http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/2006/08/30/i-am-african-is-it-accomplishing-its-goals-or-just-offensive/#comment-3909 The point of the campain is to show everyones joint humanity. The campain shows we ALL share african DNA. Regardless of your skin color, each living human person has african roots. It's the thing that makes us all esentially the same. Wether you like the campain or not the phrase "I Am African" has a meaning. Not only does it have meaning but it is essentially true. I know most caucasions hate the idea, sadly. But wether you like it or not...it is where life started and we are all AFRICAN. The only thing that makes us cosmetically different is environmental evolution. The point of the campain is to show everyones joint humanity. The campain shows we ALL share african DNA. Regardless of your skin color, each living human person has african roots. It’s the thing that makes us all esentially the same. Wether you like the campain or not the phrase “I Am African” has a meaning. Not only does it have meaning but it is essentially true. I know most caucasions hate the idea, sadly. But wether you like it or not…it is where life started and we are all AFRICAN. The only thing that makes us cosmetically different is environmental evolution.

]]> By: peter http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/2006/08/30/i-am-african-is-it-accomplishing-its-goals-or-just-offensive/#comment-2914 peter Sun, 05 Nov 2006 04:54:21 +0000 http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/2006/08/30/i-am-african-is-it-accomplishing-its-goals-or-just-offensive/#comment-2914 A gross perversion of an already warped identity politics. If richard and Gwynteh and Sarah Jessica are claiming African heritage they should do much more than have their pictures taken. They should be on the ground doing the real work. But even if such an impossibiltity were to occur, the 'I Am African' campaign is–I would imagine–deeply offensive to those who are actually suffering horrors we can scarcely imagine. A gross perversion of an already warped identity politics. If richard and Gwynteh and Sarah Jessica are claiming African heritage they should do much more than have their pictures taken. They should be on the ground doing the real work. But even if such an impossibiltity were to occur, the ‘I Am African’ campaign is–I would imagine–deeply offensive to those who are actually suffering horrors we can scarcely imagine.

]]> By: Jamie http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/2006/08/30/i-am-african-is-it-accomplishing-its-goals-or-just-offensive/#comment-1300 Jamie Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:07:34 +0000 http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/2006/08/30/i-am-african-is-it-accomplishing-its-goals-or-just-offensive/#comment-1300 Ummm....Strange (and interesting) campaign. I have to agree with you, Ariah. We seem to have lost the ability to care; we are so desensitized as a society to the plights of those around us, that we are no longer acting as compassionate beings. Seems as if the media feels a need to "sell" it to us in some way now in order to get us to act. So sad... Ummm….Strange (and interesting) campaign.

I have to agree with you, Ariah. We seem to have lost the ability to care; we are so desensitized as a society to the plights of those around us, that we are no longer acting as compassionate beings. Seems as if the media feels a need to “sell” it to us in some way now in order to get us to act.

So sad…

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