Friday, March 23, 2012

The White Savior Industrial Complex - Teju Cole - International - The Atlantic

The White Savior Industrial Complex - Teju Cole - International - The Atlantic: "How, for example, could a well-meaning American "help" a place like Uganda today? It begins, I believe, with some humility with regards to the people in those places. It begins with some respect for the agency of the people of Uganda in their own lives. A great deal of work had been done, and continues to be done, by Ugandans to improve their own country, and ignorant comments (I've seen many) about how "we have to save them because they can't save themselves" can't change that fact."

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