itsbrynn:

Remember that there is someone out there who has it much worse than you. Remember to be thankful for what you have.

realvermin:

I’m sorry, what the hell is this? Those kids look healthy and happy. You assume all children in Africa have AIDS and die of starvation and just because they’re black they can’t be happy children from good homes? If they weren’t all black this photo could have been taken anywhere in the world that there are children!

That kind of attitude is completely counter-productive. Nobody asked for your pity.

ezgo:

 I could be wrong, but i think this picture had something to do with the Invisible Children. If that is the case, i completly understand what the person is saying, but if it wasn’t then i agree with what the second person wrote. I guess it all depends on what this picture is representing.

realvermin:

It has nothing to do with Invisible Children and even if it did I still think the attitude is destructive.

madamemonster:

I just wanted to let you know your responses have made me laugh my ass off. Seriously. These kids look HAPPY. They look HEALTHY.

Oh and durp durrr just because their black obviously means they’re from Africa. PUH-LEASE. That’s just so fucking racist I can’t even comprehend it. Oh and they all have AIDs and are starving. Woop-dee-woo!

Some people just need to sit down and think about what they plan on writing or expressing before actually going ahead and posting it. You sir, are a good man :)

itsbrynn:

I posted this post as something I wanted to post. I fucking took this picture and spent two fucking weeks with these kids. Sorry I wasn’t going to post the pictures of kids I saw dying in the streets and kids with no clothes! You say I’m being racist? Why can’t I post a fucking picture of these kids being happy? These kids where the happiest kids in the whole world and they lived in an AIDS orphanage with out parents but they at leasts had clothes and were about to go to school. So no I wasn’t asking for pity and I’m not a racist I was posting a picture of two children that had an impact on my life. So fuck you.

Yeah, but that’s not how you captioned your original post. You didn’t say “Here are some happy children who happen to have AIDs and live in an orphanage and meeting them had such an impact on my life”, or anything like that. You just said we should remember that they are worse off than us. That’s pity. That’s reducing them to nothing but the negative circumstances of their life and not giving credit to the fact that they are still continuing to be happy, playful children despite everything.

It’s a good picture. Use it to talk about your experiences in Africa and what you learned there, rather than just repeating the same tired cliches of pity we hear everywhere.