has failed to garner the support they had hoped for<\/a>.\u00a0 Calling for 1,000,000.00 in donations or else a list of celebrities would be gone from the digital world, as of now they have only raised around 180,000.00.\u00a0 That\u2019s a shame.\u00a0 It seemed like a good cause.\u00a0 Why did it not work?\u00a0 Hard to say.\u00a0 The article has a couple guesses.\u00a0 Or it could be that an audience base that is usually encouraged to tune into a technologically closed world of self focus and self focus which more or less focuses on self, only wants those celebrities around when they are pandering to the self.\u00a0 I would like to think not, but I can\u2019t help but get the feeling a country that venerates self absorbed selfish motivations based on the self above all things isn\u2019t going to keep up the traditional \u2018charity and goodwill\u2019 for which Americans have been traditionally known.\u00a0 Maybe I\u2019m wrong.\u00a0 But at least among younger people, the willingness to take to the streets because our celebrities said so, for this rather well publicized cause at least, appears to be waning.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A much publicised charity drive, brainchild of Alicia Keys, has failed to garner the support they had hoped for.\u00a0 Calling for 1,000,000.00 in donations or else a list of celebrities would be gone from the digital world, as of now they have only raised around 180,000.00.\u00a0 That\u2019s a shame.\u00a0 It seemed like a good cause.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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