A Trek to Africa: Pete Wentz and Fall Out Boys’ Journey
In this portion of the article, Pete Wentz and the rest of the Fall Out Boys, felt compelled to go to Africa, as they knew about the Invisible Children, they saw for themselves the desperation of the people, the LRA, and the hundreds of children soldiers in Northern Uganda. If you just look at the article, you can see the sheer humanity that made this piece of read very touching:
Everyone I met, everywhere I walked, with every step, the hardwiring in my brain began to change. I was quiet. Every time I wanted to complain, I made sure to bite my tongue instead. One day, we were stopped by some local men holding machetes; they wouldn’t let us pass. The fear I felt was paralyzing, but I looked into the eyes of these men and all could see was desperation. A pervasive hopelessness. These men stood at the mercy of a twenty-three year war.
That night, the lights went out in the village, and in those moments of pure darkness, no one could differentiate if you were a rock star or an orphan, more importantly, it didn’t matter. Coming home was surreal, I couldn’t rationalize anything and nothing really made sense.
My friends at Invisible Children know these stories, they know the names of the people. They are the culture-changers and paradigm shifters. They are the millions of kids who don’t care if you think they’re cool or not. They refuse to idly allow a modern-day holocaust to continue just because there’s nothing in it for anyone to end this war. No oil, no resources, nothing to gain.
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