Be more aware: The first public screening of “Stop Kony” in Uganda. Kony 2012 may be the most watched video on YouTube this year, but it clearly doesn’t resonate with many of the people it claims it’s meant to help.
Here are my favorite quotes from this article.
“If people in those countries care about us, they will not wear T-shirts with Joseph Kony for any reason. That would celebrate our suffering.”
Al-Jazeera reporter Malcolm Webb, who attended the screening, blogs that one woman “made the comparison of selling Osama Bin Laden paraphernalia post 9/11 – likely to be highly offensive to many Americans, however well-intentioned the campaign behind it.”
Kony 2012 may be the most watched video on YouTube this year, but it clearly doesn’t resonate with many of the people it claims it’s meant to help.
Source: USA Today
Thanks a lot Hippies and The History Channel.
