Making sense of what senseless really means...

"Fifteen thousand Africans dying each and every day, of preventable, treatable diseases—AIDS, malaria, TB—for lack of drugs that we take for granted.

"This statistic alone makes a fool of the idea many of us hold on to very tightly: the idea of equality. What is happening in Africa mocks our pieties, doubts our concern, and questions our commitment to that whole concept. Because if we’re honest, there’s no way we could conclude that such mass death day after day would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else. Certainly not in North America, or Europe, or Japan. An entire continent bursting into flames? Deep down, if we really accept their lives—African lifes—are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. It’s an uncomfortable truth.”

“We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies—but will we be that generation? ...It’s up to us.”


- Bono (U2) from his introduction to 'The End Of Poverty'