I saw on the news yesterday that the basketball coach at IUPUI coached barefoot in their game last Thursday. He did it to raise awareness for a charity that sends shoes to poor kids in Africa. Sounds like a great cause and a neat gimmick to get the word out. And it worked, more than 110,000 shoes were donated.
What a great story, but here’s how cynical I am. One of my first thoughts after hearing the story on the news was that rich Americans just shipped a bunch of shoes to poor kids in Africa that were made in sweatshops by poor kids in China. So the more shoes we give to the African kids the Chinese kids will have to work longer hours in the sweatshops.
I realize it’s pretty unlikely there is really a direct correlation, but that’s how my twisted mind works 
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January 29, 2008 at 4:47 pm
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January 29, 2008 at 10:57 pm
oh, but you gotta love those kiddos in Africa
I’m only slightly biased. It’s a good thought though…kinda sad.