Huh, another interesting observation I just made. All responses have only focused on the American centric half of my original post, and not the African centric. If I were to respond to a similar post, I assume I would do the same thing. Kind of like when you hear of a bus wreck and thirty people dying in some 3rd world country on the news it just kind of passes through one ear and out the other without too deep of an emotional response, while when you hear the exact same story, only now it is a bus crash with thirty people dying in New Jersey or some other place in the US, it evokes a much stronger reaction. I mean, who really cared about the recent terrorist attacks in India? None of us even bothered to post about it. Yet Bernie Mac or Michael Crichton dies and we all rush here to be the first to make his R.I.P. post. Not picking on anyone, I am obviously the same way. Just kind of funny how that works.