I have noticed that the Ethiopian coffe thing is just about Ethiopians, South Africa day is just about South Africans, Darfur people from Sudan. I dont really believe that many white people care about Africa beyond their own interest.

Amnesty is an all white agenda, yes naturally they do some good, just look at there website and look for our face. it is our face in their story. When i was back home you see NADA in terms of help, what you do see is them with the landcrusiers driving up and down to the expensive hotels. Or flying in white experts to talk about the issue.

The rest nothing to do with us.

My issue is forums are not used correctly, i have been on some forums that actually do the work. To date i have not seen any organization with a program that changes the root of the problem with a real solution. YOu either get the boycott group which says "do support them support the nothing we are doing" or the well meaning local group which has no means of touching the masses (at least they try)

The issue is we dont link our struggles. I have heard of ROV, and they something for Victory. And they seem to be on the correct path. They have a campaign they work with these "charities" they also do something constructive which i havent seen anyone else doing they actually have a resource link which points people to African products and information. I think this is key. Their site needs a touch up. This is who we should support but again i suspect their might be a white face in there which is why they can speak to the charities like Anti-Slavery.

http://www.rendezvousofvictory.org/2...centenary.html

http://www.rendezvousofvictory.org/rov_pull.html

Time to move beyond rhetoric, and dont leave the work for someone else to do. for example how long does it take to sign the action plan they are proposing?