Idolator

In the week's most adorable existential crisis, tweener fave JoJo had something of a mini-MySpace metldown where she suddenly realized that people in other countries sometimes have it worse off. Like really worse off. Specifically her wig was flipped by crisis in the Sudan, and if you'd like to see what happens when a 16-year-old turns on CNN for the first time in her life, JoJo's impassioned plea for peace is after the jump:

If you feel overwhelmed by what you are about to read, I am with you. When I take a step back, I sometimes feel ashamed by my materialistic nature as a young American and as if there is nothing that I can personally do to put an end to the monstrocities going on in the world, specifically in The Sudan. And I also find it alarming that we, as a nation, seem to be more concerned with a hollwood party girl's latest panty-less escapades than with the hateful and destructive plans of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan's evil dictator. With so much wealth, opportunity, peace, and security around us as citizens of the United States, its so easy to forget that there is a whole world out there who does not live like we do. People inhabiting and assisting in The Sudan and surrounding countries live in CONSTANT FEAR. Not fear that us American children have, ( boogey-man under the bed ... Fear that the tooth fairy might only leave $1...) I mean the fear of having limbs blown off from random bombings, schools and entire villages being burned down, running to a supposed UN airplane ( they bring food and other vital supplies) which are painted white but discovering that it is infact a Janjaweed aircraft that was posing as the United Nations(it is illegal to have an aircraft painted in that fashion unless it is a UN craft) and being killed by the militants, being raped and expected to bear the product of a hateful conception, and other very harsh realities.

As I drove home from the gym tonight I realized that in the scheme of things, I have absolutely no idea what fear truly is. It is impossible to justify what is going on in The Sudan and just as impossible to relate to what the victims of the tragedies endured. But what we can relate to is that we are all HUMAN BEINGS. Living, breathing people with hearts, and feelings, and potential to change the world and evoke change in each other. Hope should not be lost.

This is followed by a batshit long list of facts about the Sudan and a lot of comments on the level of "damn that's deep, yo" and "omg Jo, thats horrid!!! Your look fine sxc ) XoXoX." C'mon, how cute is it that her mind split open at the thought of genocidal dictatorships on her way home from the gym? Also while it's cool on some level that she's trying to "spread awareness" in the grand rock star tradition, how totally wigged out out is her pre-teen audience (or whatever's left of it) going to be when they're reading things like "being raped and expected to bear the product of a hateful conception." Wait a minute, "hateful conception"? Did she even write this?

JoJo [MySpace, with a tip of the hat to Reed Fischer, who probably would like us to point out that he doesn't usually really read JoJo's MySpace page but you know, just happened to be doing so today is all. Oh, and Maura for the headline.]