Comments on: Letter Z for Zaire

By: fightingwindmills

fightingwindmills — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:11:49 +0000

CG and CuriousC, thanks for your supportive comments!

By: CuriousC

CuriousC — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:48:32 +0000

Great post; I, too, was thinking about the Kingsolver book, the Poisonwood Bible… Excellent Z topic. zowza!

By: thecanvasgrey

thecanvasgrey — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:15:35 +0000

I see where you get your intelligence from…wow! This was a great post and I enjoyed learning about this. I completely agree that they are raping the land and the people.

By: fightingwindmills

fightingwindmills — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:45:10 +0000

Yes, Deb, thank you for mentioning the diamonds. You are one of the best examples I know of someone who thinks about what she is doing. I don’t know if my mom has seen the documentary. I will ask her.

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:56:43 +0000

This was a great post! I didn’t know much about Zaire/Democratic Republic of Congo so I went and read up on it. So much happened in such a short span of time.

Your mom is so right about the exploitation being wrong. It seems like everytime I turn around, I learn something else I have to be very careful of when buying (chocolate, for instance – chocolate slavery is horribly common), but that makes sense. It is an exploitative society we live in, we have to think about what we are doing.

I haven’t watched it, but I’ve heard really good things about the documentary “blood diamonds”. (actually, I think there is a documentary as well as a dramatization or whatever they’d call it, both by the same name.) Has your mom seen it? Doubt it would be news to her, but still might be affirming to know that people are finally starting to learn the real cost behind the sparklies. I know a lot of people (regular kinds of people) who are saying they’ll never buy diamonds.

By: fightingwindmills

fightingwindmills — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:45:08 +0000

Thanks, Sarah! It was hard at times to think of topics to post about and I knew I would need my mom’s help with the letter “Z” since I didn’t want to write about zebras.

Thanks, Goldie! I really liked that life lesson too. I loved reading Barbara Kingsolver’s book The Poisonwood Bible because of lessons like that.

By: Goldie

Goldie — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:34:14 +0000

“I think I was a better Christian [not to send them away] than the missionaries!”
I agree with him too! He was a good man to continue to provide for their well-being. I think that was the greater good there.
You and your mother have both led very interesting lives!!!

By: seaswell

seaswell — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:28:55 +0000

congrats for making it through the month!

and thanks to you and your mom for this post – we certainly don’t hear enough about situation in places like this.