Going after the gnat when an alligator is in the room
This writer brings it home in his piece entitled “The World’s Missing Conscience”. Many black folks in this country have been so trained only to have knee-jerk reactions to issues that involve racism from whites that we oftentimes overlook the real issues that are going on in the rest of the world. While snap polls will reflect that most black Americans don’t trust whites, on this particular issue whites appear to be leading the way in addressing this issue (for years BEFORE the headlines) while the black community has reserved its rage for the next “white cop beats black man” issue.
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The world’s missing conscience (Gilbert Khan)
Many in the Jewish community throughout the area are readying to attend the rally this Sunday against the genocide being perpetrated and/or tolerated by the SudaneseGilbert Kahn government. In the course of this preparation, one is immediately struck by the deafening quiet within various elements of American society  as well as throughout the world  to the horrors transpiring in Sudan. As happened in Somalia and then in Rwanda, blacks in Africa  Muslims and some Christians  are slaughtering men, women, and children for no intelligible reason and the world is standing idly by.
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It seems that issues far less consequential than the genocide being perpetrated in the Sudan are seriously distracting religious and political leaders in the United States and around the world. Many African-American political and church leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, are rallying behind a black stripper in Durham, NC, who was allegedly raped by white members of the Duke University lacrosse team, yet they are not galvanizing their followers to protest the slaughter of blacks in Africa. While something ugly certainly happened on the Duke campus, no one died in Durham. (more…)
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April 28th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
It is horrendous to see that there are so few A-A groups involved. However, Mr. Kahn’s essay is a polemic against Muslims, highlighting the wonderfully positive actions of the Jewish community. It is patethic that he is using Darfur to advance his agenda.
Where is the CBC? Again their silence is deafening. The Chinese are the major buyers of Sudanese oil, so any action on our part won’t have a negative effect on oil prices.
The African Union has shown itself ineffective yet once again…and these are pretty good soldiers. It is the politicians who suck.
Another Rwanda can not be allowed to happen. Let’s hope for a major showing in DC this Sunday.
April 30th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
I often wonder what can I do other than call my government official and try to persuade he or she into looking into this situation. I wish we understood how detrimental this situation and others like it are to the human race as a whole its 2006 and we still are killing one another. It hurts a little bit more every time you hear it but I can’t help but almost feel helpless in the situation like its some big process going on hear where the bad in the whole is actively being weeded out. Does progression follow regression ?