KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.
Kony 2012 es una campaña y un corto realizados por "Invisible Children" para que Joseph Kony gane notoriedad , pero no para ensalzarlo, si no para conseguir apoyo para que se le arreste y con ello sentar un precedente a nivel mundial
Llegamos algo tarde a la cita, pero sigamos sumando
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Desde su aparición ha habido reacciones variopintas, una, que me parece muy importante, la de los habitantes de África, que no toman a bien que el Occidente los siga viendo como niños, que a fuerza requieren que alguien los salve, es lo que va implícito cuando la gente le llama "negrito" a una persona de color, decirle "negrito" es un insulto sin igual.
Ella es una bloggera de Uganda y esta es su respuesta Kony
Como habitante de un país racista, pero que lo niega, y en una ciudad donde el color de piel es muy importante, no puedo evitar compartir la frustración que cosas así les generan.
“saving hapless Africans,” were problematic because, “the simplicity of the ‘good versus evil,’” narrative, “where good is inevitably white/Western and bad is black or African, is also reminiscent of some of the worst excesses of the colonial-era interventions
O como dicen, que de buenas intenciones está tapizado el camino al infierno
“We as Africans, especially the diaspora, are waking to the idea that our agency has been hijacked for far too long by well-meaning Western do-gooders with a guilty conscience, sold on the idea that Africa’s ills are their responsibility.”
También la de alguien que llevaba mucho tiempo intentando "generar notoriedad" desde hace tiempo, pero que le parece que no basta.
Wow. I never dreamed that I’d have a legitimate excuse to write a TechCrunch post about Joseph Kony, the crazed Ugandan warlord whose Lord’s Resistance Army has been a pet obsession of mine for some years now. The first draft of my thriller set mostly in Uganda and the Congo had a villain loosely based on Kony, but I had to edit him out, basically because he’s far too batshit crazy to be even remotely believable. The world is surprisingly full of things so implausible they would never fly in fiction, and the LRA is one of them.
Now, stretching credulity even further, a 30-minute-long LRA-awareness video from the quasi-NGO Invisible Children has gone viral around the world. Celebrities and A-listers everywhere are retweeting it. Of course! Because if we just increase worldwide public awareness of the LRA’s horrific depredations, why, then…
…and that’s where they lose me. What exactly are Invisible Children hoping to accomplish with this? They claim credit for persuading Obama to send 100 US troops in October to help the Ugandan army find the LRA; but for what it’s worth, I happen to know that the US Army was interested in tracking down Kony well before that. (How? Last June, while roaming around East Africa, I went diving in Djibouti with some Special Forces dudes–as you do–and Kony came up in conversation.)
Foto En resumen, como siempre pasa, la gente quiera que el mundo sea simple, blanco y negro, ellos han de ser los únicos complejos.