I got 99 problems

Alright let's talk about this Kony thing. Ok let me rephrase that, let ME talk about Kony in such a way that I might express my true feelings about this subject. I doubt I will offend anyone but if i do offend someone let me assure you that it was my intention to offend you. Jokes!

I've known about this Invisible Children thing for a while now. Since like '06 or '07. One of my friends used to be way into it. She even slept out in the streets of Atlanta in a cardboard box. And even then I thought it was weird (for lack of better words). My opinion is that maybe we should work on our problems here before we commit ourselves to saving the world. I mean its great that they are trying to raise awareness of this Kony guy but what can I do from all the way over here? Yes, I know that I can donate money to the Invisible Children but are these children even going to see that money? Considering that we can't even see the children-- get it?

Invisible? No? Ok.--

Another friend of mine told me that she looked up more information about where all the donated money goes and she said that most of the money went to film equipment. Well that's great, I'm paying for someone to add movies to their portfolio but what about the invisible children? With that being said, why can't we find a good cause that is closer to home. I really liked that one movement that was raising awareness of suicide, addiction, depression and self injury, it was called "to write love on her arms". Compared to what's going on in Uganda this might seem like "first world problems" but you know what? They are our problems. These are things that our neighbors, our family, our peers are all struggling with and instead we want to turn a b

lind eye and pretend that we can in fact save Uganda when we can't even save ourselves.

I just think that we should do more for the mother land before we try to fix other people's problems.

Anyway, if you don't know about the Kony 2012 thing, here's the WSJ article on it.

Make me see your point by leaving a comment.

And last but not least here's a picture that I thought was funny and described the way I felt about how the video blew up on Facebook.