Recently, many people have been seen the video KONY 2012. A lot of people that have seen that video, including me, were really inspired by it and wanted to help. The way the video was made it was like watching 30 minutes of these poor kids suffering and having to be afraid every time they were going to sleep. The man who made the video went on a mission trip there and learned all about who Kony was and what he did, he even talked to many of the people who escaped from Kony. As the video explains, Kony is a Uganda dictator who takes children from there homes and put them into armies to fight and sells them as sex slaves. After watching the video I couldn't see how this was just starting to become important if Kony had been doing this for years now, but more recently I learned the other side of this story.
A few days after the KONY 2012 video went up, another video went up which had been made by someone who actually lived in Uganda. What was said in this video, I thought, was very suprising. Kony has actually not been in Uganda for over six years now, and many people in Uganda are greatly offended by the Kony 2012 video because it makes Uganda look like such an awful place. Now of course there are two sides to every story but I think that its really interesting how this who issue over took America and we don't even know all the facts.
I thought that the Kony video was inspiring and i really liked it! But your right i also saw that video that was put up after and i was in shock, and i thought wow this guy made it sound so much worse than it was.
ReplyDeleteYeah I thought that the Kony video was very inspiring as well! However, it seemed as if something was weird about it. I just remember going to bed one night having no idea who or what Kony is, then the next day it was all over Facebook and Twitter. Also, I heard that the man who made the video actually recently got arrested, so I wonder if this is true.
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