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This African man's crusty feet in makeshift sandals from two water bottles is ingenious and reflective of a keen mind.

This African man's crusty feet in makeshift sandals from two water bottles is ingenious and reflective of a keen mind. You need to look into the man's eyes to see the poverty, or see his life, how he lives his life. Is there light in his eyes? Does he know the stories we think he does not know about? 

Too often Americans are pricked in their core with images of severe poverty and the gross outcomes of terrible diseases not indigenous to African peoples. What we are looking at in graphic images of poverty, disease, and murder is the aftermath of European conquest, the subsequent demoralization of millions of Black Africans by colonialism, and the continual theft of the African continent to meet our wants, needs and desires here in the West, and the crushing effect of the machinery in place to become wealthier to the exclusion of consideration for quality of life in Africa. That is what these organizations that pop up on TV crying for financial help are not respecting, or acknowledging as the backdrop for the scenes of starving Africans. American white and black missionaries, and white TV evangelists do not address in any real, or effective sense from a commitment to social reform in Africa. In its place is the insufferable sense of rescuing lost souls in hopelessness as if there is no historically karma to pay, and no spiritual responsibility that does not make white Americans, in particular, feel good about themselves! 

This is insulting beyond words. That being said how does the American regain his lost soul. What is happening and not reported is that missionaries from Asia and Africa are coming here to our shores as missionaries. I asked of one such missionary a few years ago why he'd come from India as a missionary under the guise of a professional man. He said, the soul of Americans is sick, and they don't see it. So, we come in Jesus' name to help restore." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.22.13