People ask me all the time how I can identify with the Third World poor given my extraordinary wealth. Does this answer your question?
From Free Market News Network (6/26/07):
“You have to understand,” Bono replied to the journalist, “that in these people’s eyes there is no difference between you and me.”
“You haven’t seen my salary,” the interviewer responded with a laugh.
“It doesn’t matter,” said Bono. “You have a roof over your head. Three squares a day. Clean drinking water. A doctor who sees you when you’re sick. In the eyes of these people, you have everything.”
Don’t think about my partnership in Forbes Media-owning private equity firms. Or that people give me free penthouses. In the eyes of a poor African child, I’m just Bono.
June 27, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Bono is not only the greatest musical artist to have ever lived, but a model humanitarian and social commentator. This site not only taints all that Bono has done for Africa and the AIDS epidemic, but tarnishes all holy in this world. Bono is my life, and as my ex-wife would say, “All I fucking care about.” I swear, whenever I read this post, I just cry and cry and cry and hate you. Then I masturbate all over myself. I hate you.
June 27, 2007 at 2:51 pm
RICH!
I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER!!???
I iz in ur hous… makin funs of ur Bono!
September 19, 2007 at 5:23 pm
for fucks sake, this aint funny, its degrading. bono is the greatest guy on earth, and pathetic people with nothing purposeful in their lives are making up this shit for “fun”.
well, the laugh will be on bono wen he gets his lawyers involved, dickheads.
November 17, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Every human in God’s eye is the same. We all should face what we have done at last, one to one, face to face with Jesus Christ.
We just a keeper of resources. When we die, we have nothing except our deeds. Money and belongings will be in others’ hand.
Love others, love the earth, love ourselves, love the one who hate you.