Jim Tartt Insults Africa On Facebook, Everyone Else Insults Jim Tartt

Jim Tartt Insults Africa On Facebook, Everyone Else Insults Jim Tartt

Facebook and college athletes just shouldn’t mix. Remember Buck Burnette? Yeah, he used to play for the University of Texas... then he went and posted a racist Facebook status.
 

Now, University of Florida lineman Jim Tartt is rolling in internet mockery because of his own Facebook profile. The Sporting Blog informs us that Tartt joined a group called “Africa Gives Nothing To Anyone -- Except AIDS.”
 

The group’s long-winded description includes this little nugget:

How much morality is there in saving an Ethiopian child from starvation today, for it to survive to a life of brutal circumcision, poverty, hunger, violence and sexual abuse, resulting in another half-dozen such wide-eyed children, with comparably jolly little lives ahead of them? Of course, it might make you feel better, which is a prime reason for so much charity. But that is not good enough. For self-serving generosity has been one of the curses of Africa. It has sustained political systems which would otherwise have collapsed.


It prolonged the Eritrean-Ethiopian war by nearly a decade. It is inspiring Bill Gates' programme to rid the continent of malaria, when, in the almost complete absence of personal self-discipline, that disease is one of the most efficacious forms of population-control now operating.


If his programme is successful, tens of millions of children who would otherwise have died in infancy will survive to adulthood, he boasts. Oh good: then what?I know. Let them all come here. Yes, that's an idea.

If that wasn’t bad enough, it turns out Tartt is an anthropology major -- Yikes.
 

P.S. Going by Jimbo? Nice.

 

(Photo source: Sporting News)
 

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