Am I the only one who doesn’t really give a shit about Haiti? See that picture above? That is before the earthquake, not after…and you couldn’t even tell.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not pro-destruction, I don’t root for natural disasters, nor do I hate Haitians (or foreigners in general). But this is kind of like if a tornado took out all the alleys where homeless people live. They had terrible, miserable lives before this earthquake, and not one seemed to care then. Sure there were a few missionaries down there trying to meet their Jesus conversion quota and some medical staff buffing up their resumes, but there weren’t Haiti telethons a few weeks ago.

Now all of a sudden it’s this cool, sexy, trendy fad to donate money to Haiti. It’s like breast cancer awareness month on steroids. I think this is what gets me most. I support helping other in crisis (as long as its not me), but the fact that it has become the latest fashion trend is just absurd. Donating to Haiti is the new black.

What I don’t understand is why didn’t the California earthquake get hot? They had a 6.5 (Haiti had a 7.0) a week before and no one really seemed to care.

Time to get philosophical. What if the same earthquake occurred in Afghanistan? It affected the same number of people in the same way. Assuming no American soldiers were injured, would we give the same relief effort? We are in a war with Afghanistan (sort of) so would we be happy so many people died? Would we be dishing out money via text messages to help all the little Afghan babies with no mommies? I would say not. But why not? Aren’t we all humans? Shouldn’t we all help each other and Tweet about it?

Good news for Red Cross though. The economy was hurting their business for a while. I even read somewhere a couple months ago that they cashed a check for tens of thousands of dollars that bounced. Nothing like a good internet meme to replenish the stock pile.

Oh, and this just in. George Bush doesn’t care about Haitians either.

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