i was trying to find the dinka translation of "marial bai, i love you"


what do we do. i spent a good amount of time today looking over the international crisis group website. seeing what has happened in sudan since one valentino achak deng made it to america. seeing what all the issues are that we tend to push away daily. how amazing it would be if we could fix this. but i know it will end up being americans turning the third world nations into our investments. we will help them by turning them into little versions of usa. and i hate that.

i want to help as much as one could, but i dont want the american selfish mentality to be mixed in with it. and this is what kills me.