Lets leave any form of anger or hatred out of this thread

. . . and leave you to enjoy your nice, white, worthy, middle-class, boring performers (like Coldplay for chrissake) sporting their trendy white armbands while the African musicians with their hastily-issued, afterthought sop invitations are belatedly and patronisingly shunted off to a greenhouse backwater, well out of sight and vision? Africa Calling actually happens on 2 July (not 6) and the line-up contains one of the finest musicians on the planet, Youssou N'Dour. Shows the extent to which it's penetrated your consciousness. Live 8 fails completely to respect the people of Africa, musicians and ordinary citizens alike. It's one day of token pity which impinges not at all upon the necessity for fundamental changes in economic, political and social attitudes towards people stereotyped as inferior because they have less money and different skins. A Live 8 discussion should be in the music section of the board, not BS, to promote serious reconsideration of the work of these musicians, not to pose for a day pretending to care about the plight of millions of people while watching mainstream rubbish on the television.