Joseph Kony Guilt: Let's Wait And Be Sure.

Joseph Kony Speaks. Check out this interview done with the notorious Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony. We already have one interpretation of the the 20 yr old conflict in Uganda by the filmmakers of the Kony/2012 video, but before you jump on the bandwagon and light a torch, at least become constituent to all the voices involved. I am not imploring anyone to believe any of these voices, for truth is usually a composite of all the information involved, but I am asking us to be informed, intellectual beings who are the result of our best effort, not an empassioned mob moving from slumber to anger in our collective illiteracy. If Joseph kony is guilty of these crimes against humanity, let him be proven guilty with evidence, not a film by a some dude from Hermosa Beach. Note: Most fundraising missions in Africa are scams, moneymakers. So before you buy that wristband that the Capture Jospeh Kony movement is selling, please have the facts straight, or you could be simply funding someone's rock n' roll dreams.

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhEk16p80re9j8X31h

Problems With The Film About Joseph Kony

People, those of you who are conscious beings, check out this video with a critical eye and tell me what you think. I agree that what is going on in with Joseph Kony is incomprehensibly appalling, the crimes against humanity he and his cohorts are involved in, but there are many dynamics at work here that are left out of this film, and as a result we are presented a very naive, paternal perspective on African conflicts. I wonder who's benefiting from these sustained conflicts, who's funding and arming Joseph kony, what western corporations have financial interests in the region, what European colonial power still has resource interest in the area, why is there such unwillingness by western powers to end the conflict? I don't see a single interview with anyone African but they boy. There are many African activists fighting hard to end this conflict and save these children. Why not introduce them to the world? This is how Bono from U2 became the self appointed ambassador for African suffering. This filmmaker is well intentioned, but seems to arise from the suburban white bliss and innocence that many Americans cocoon themselves in, all the while benefiting from the resources garnered from these conflicts in places such as Africa. Requisite to this convenient political blindness is the assumption that all things western are working for the good of the world, and that, despite the connectivity of the planet, atrocities happen in isolation, and in this isolation, can be solved with the good intentions and muffins of a phalanx of soccer moms. I applaud this filmmaker for bringing this issue to the world's consciousness, and his naivete is not his fault. Let's just hope the real experts on African and world issues are going to now be heard by the masses for, once again, there have been many African voices, in Africa and in the diaspora, screaming about this matter for some time, hoping the world community would hear them, they were just the wrong color.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

KONY 2012