College Dropout

It's official, I'm getting rid of my College Dropout cd. On July 2, 2005, Kanye West appeared on the Philadelphia bill of Live 8, using the global platform to refer to "man-made diseases placed in African communities", a reference to the belief that AIDS was created by Westerners to exterminate Africans. I haven't ever heard of this before in my life. How much credibility does this theory hold? What would be the benefit to Westerners from wiping out Africa? How about other major catastrophic diseases? The Black Plague? Polio? Were these also intentionally released by maniacal scientists bent on taking over the world? I know that germ warfare exists and is a very real thing and there are credible examples, such as Europeans infecting Native American tribes with smallpox, but AIDS? Europeans were already resistant to the smallpox virus when they passed it to the Natives so there was a very positive upside for them. The natives would get sick and weak and were easily defeated. NO ONE is immune to the HIV virus. What's the point in purposefully infecting one culture when it can be easily spread to your own?
He also criticised Western leaders, but not African leaders, for "riding in their Bentleys and Benzs", even though he himself has a collection of 12 cars and is a very rich individual. Kanye is one of those insufferable "blame someone else for my condition" types. He also made the statement at the Live 8 interview that crack cocaine was intentionally placed in the inner city by whites in order to break up the cohesiveness of the Black Panthers. What has happened to personal responsibility in this country? I've seen people who smoke crack and they don't look so hot. That's why I don't smoke it. Most of the people who I know that smoke weed are losers. That's why I don't smoke it. Most of the alcoholics I've known have pretty sucky lives. That's why I don't make it a habit of over indulging with alcohol.
I feel bad for starving kids in Africa, I really do, but is it our government's fault that those kids are starving? Don't they have a government? Why is this area of the world worth pitying more than any other area? I love how liberals get to play both sides on everything. With regards to Iraq and Afghanistan, America is an interventionist bully pushing it's will upon other countries doing no one any good, but somehow throwing money into the hands of corrupt African governments that allow their people to starve to death is going to solve the solution to the world's poor. Thanks Kanye, and the rest of the Live 8 performers for bringing so much attention and focus to an unsolvable problem.