June 13, 2006

• If you were living in America 65 years ago while the holocaust was
  going on in Europe, what would personally do? Would it bother you?
  Would you be appalled? Would you write a member of Congress asking him
  (most members of Congress were male back then, if not all) to do
  something? Well, sadly, there is what amounts to a holocaust going on
  right now in Africa, namely, Dafur. Millions of people have been
  displaced, thousands upon thousands have died, more have been raped and
  lots more are starving to death because of what is going on there. I
  don’t want to get into too many details, because to be honest, I
  wouldn’t do it justice, but I will refer you to this website for more
  info:

  http://www.savedarfur.org/

  You might say “why should I care” but I say to you, how can you NOT
  care. This is what basically amounts to genocide and ethnic cleansing
  going on in Dafur and if it doesn’t make you at least be slightly
  concerned, than I am worried about your very conscience. People say its
  tragic, but we have our own problems here. Sure, we do, that is without
  dispute. But, if you are going through some sort of personal crisis and
  at the same time, your neighbor’s house is on fire, do you look the
  other way and say “that’s tragic, but I have my own problems”? No, you
  do something. Congress will be approving aid for Darfur which is great.
  Now, I know America has a lot of pleas from other countries for help
  and to be honest, we can not save and help everybody. But, this is
  where us as citizens come in. We have to let our elected officials know
  which issues are important to us. And, we also should press the UN to
  do far more than what they have already done. America the world’s only
  super power, but not even America can solve this problem on our own. We
  need the whole world to take notice of what is happening and Dafur
  needs the support of the whole world. If all non third world countries
  and the UN help, we can make a difference and end this living hell for
  the people of Dafur. Dafur is a modern day holocaust, and I know that
  if I were around back in the 1940s, I would be extremely bothered by
  the holocaust. The bottom line is that these are humans and we should
  always lend help to those that can not help themselves, it is, after
  all the moral and right thing to do.

  • 10:48 pm
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