Bob Geldof's response to critics of the charity single

[gvopedz]

...They inspired two popstars – The Boom Town Rats’ Bob Geldof and Ultravox’s Midge Ure – to write the charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas? It was hastily recorded by the super-group Band Aid.  But the lyrics did not paint a full picture of the famine. They recycled many of the old colonial tropes of Africa as a barren land requiring western salvation... 

Geldof:  “Colonial tropes” my arse.

https://theconversation.com/band-aid-at-40-how-the-problematic-christmas-hit-changed-the-charity-sector-241649

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, gvopedz said:

...They inspired two popstars – The Boom Town Rats’ Bob Geldof and Ultravox’s Midge Ure – to write the charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas? It was hastily recorded by the super-group Band Aid.  But the lyrics did not paint a full picture of the famine. They recycled many of the old colonial tropes of Africa as a barren land requiring western salvation... 

Geldof:  “Colonial tropes” my arse.

https://theconversation.com/band-aid-at-40-how-the-problematic-christmas-hit-changed-the-charity-sector-241649

😵‍💫 .... and spot on feedback by Bob Geldof ....

[mjazzg]

Sir Bob as eloquent as ever

"charitable has always given donors and charity workers what economist James Andreoni termed a “warm glow”

as one of those workers, 'warm glow' isn't a common experience at all. Doing our best to empathise with clients' increasingly precarious situations and fighting ever tightening budgetary restrictions are a lot more common.