Going after the gnat when an alligator is in the room
on April 28th, 2006 at 10:14 am
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.
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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