Kevin Carter was a photojournalist from South Africa who committed suicide at the age of 33 in 1994. He was suffering from severe depression following a time in Sudan watching the famine and the vast suffering of the people there. He took a photo which would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize. It is of a little girl crawling her way to the UN camp in order to be fed. The 'onlooker' is a well fed vulture waiting for her to die. She was retrieved and taken to the camp but her fate remains unknown. Kevin Carter found a tree and smoked and cried for a long time. The experience shook him for the rest of his life----a life he would take.
As for the horror in Sudan, it continues...
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It's such a shame we spend billions of our tax dollars here in the U.S. to fight wars on foreign soil to "help preserve democracy" for a people who hate us and all the while hundreds of thousands of children die every year to starvation. It's no wonder other countries hate us, we act directly on behalf of our own interests only, if their would be trillions of dollars of oil in the sudan we would be there to help the people. It's seems we've lost our humanity somewhere along the way.
One of my favorite rock bands is Manic Street Preachers, who've made a career out of paying attention to matters like this, when others won't or don't.
One of the Manics' most memorable songs is "Kevin Carter."
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"Kevin Carter"
Hi Time magazine hi Pulitzer Prize
Tribal scars in Technicolor
Bang bang club AK 47 hour
Kevin Carter
Hi Time magazine hi Pulitzer Prize
Vulture stalked white piped lie forever
Wasted your life in black and white
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
The elephant is so ugly he sleeps his head
Machetes his bed Kevin Carter kaffir lover forever
Click click click click click
Click himself under
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
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