The "Red" Campaign

So the other day I went to the Apple store with a friend. She wanted to buy a new Ipod Nano because her other one had broke. She quickly found a red one she liked and went to the counter to purchase it. As she was paying the girl behind the counter said "a certain percentage of this goes to kids in Africa." I automatically shot her a dirty look and said "great. Just what they need is another fucking gazelle."

Seriously. We live in a country where there are starving, homeless, uneducated children right down the street. Why is a percentage of my money going to Africa? What percentage? You know how much money they spend on advertising campaigns? PROBABLY MORE THAN THEY DONATE! So essentially my money would go towards telling people to donate.

I am so sick of hearing about the "Red" campaign. I think if we really want to help these kids in Africa we should send over all the leftover fruitcakes from the holidays. That way we don't have them, our homeless kids won't have to suffer, and we can say we are really feed those Africans (even if they don't like it.) Beggers can't be chosers Mutamba.