Africa: What A Great Place To Live!

La Shawn Barber comments on a BBC report noticing a strange phenomenon in Niger, where famine is commonplace: villages in which women and children are going hungry, while there is still food in their households. Men often leave their families to look for work or money, and lock the grain store while they were away (it is often taboo for women to go into the family grain store). The conservative blogger writes: "Niger men love their multiple wives and children enough to teach them the value of scrounging for food. Africa is filled with such wonderful traditions. Men are allowed to drop their seed all over the place, and they don’t have to fend for anyone but themselves. Women and children are on their own except when it’s time to cater to their men. A rogue’s paradise. Here’s another gem: 'And men may be calculating — correctly — that if they don’t provide for their families, aid agencies will step in to fill the gap.' Hmm…making babies with multiple women, knowing the state will feed them. Why does that sound familiar? Wait just a minute…now that I think about it, it’s probably the white man’s fault! Those blue-eyed devils are forcing these oppressed men to starve their babies. Racists!"