We Are The World?

I am on a number of Internet discussion lists and this was one of the first topics of the day. I refuse to listen to the song as I don't listen to radio stations of this kind anyway. But, from all the buzz it sounds downright ignorant and the radio personality is getting her just desserts as far as outrage:

"This is a big story, that's about to blow up as it should, and right in there faces. This was about the most stupidest un-funny piece of trash I have ever heard. WTF are they smoking up at HOT97 NYC? Their motto being, Blazing Hiphop and R&B ...R&B standing for Racism and Bigotry.

Listen to this mp3... if you don't want to hear them bickering at the beginning fast forward to the middle, where the song is, though the bickering is Miss Jones defending the song and outing her asian news woman (Miss Info) on the show, for not wanting to participate in the 'parody' song -smart move by her, she has SOME class" ...
(link via ISOU)

For my part, I think it illustrates the total lack of sensitivity, understanding and empathy for the magnitude of the situation. It's like when, several years ago, a group of black high school students from Oakland,CA went on a field trip to see Shindler's List and starting laughing at segments of bodies being dumped and people being herded. While it was blown up into black anti-semitism, from the students I saw being interviewed, the black and white film looked funny to them so they laughed. With today's modern and graphic videos and movies, they were totally desensitized to what the movie was really about because of the presentation.

When the news of this tragedy was first released, many people started complaining about the US always coming to the rescue with aid when we have problems here - as though they'd ever had their entire families and lives washed away in the blink of an eye. The lesson to be learned is how selfish and isolated from history, the world and other people's plights we have become. More so than it being racist, (and it could also be deemed racist that hardly any attention is being paid to the AFRICAN countries impacted by the Tsunami too) it is the lack of compassion and the ability to identify with human suffering. In essence, we really aren't the world.