Quote Originally Posted by Mar
I see boh sides of the argument here....we have it good here in the U.S. and we take it for granted....having a rough upbringing here is nothing compared to what they go through in some of these other countries...i don't see it as a black or white thing just like boxing isn't black or white...this guy could have done a lot worse things in his life but he decided to shed the crap that was delt to him and do something positive and i give him credit. Think of what little most of us have done with our lives and we never had to live in a cell when we were 11 and watch our mother die simply cause it's too expensive to keep her alive.....
I dunno mate my best friends dad stabbed his mum to death with a pair of scissors when he was a child but I've never heard him use it as an excuse in life. My dad molested my sister, I got cancer at 24 and now live on disability.

Don't misunderstand me I'm not complaining about my lot in life or trying to top trumps Ndou's struggles I'm just saying that life is tough and hard for most people. We'll all experience our loved ones dying and we'll all die of something at some point in our lives.

It just seems to be fashionable these days amongst the white middle and upper classes to try and 'understand' the plight of the uncivilised folk of the third world. The richest white's will even go over to Africa and do their bit to right the wrongs by snatching a poor child away from his/her family and homeland to be raised in comfort in a proper country where they can live a happy life without having to endure the agony of having to actually grow their food rather than buy it in a supermarket, or to live without the life's essentials like television and a mobile phone.