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...Sudanese government has backed Arab militiamen in the western region of Darfur, where more than 70,000 people have died and millions have lost their homes in a two-year conflict. The U.S. charges that the Sudanese regime is guilty of genocide, although U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan—who holds an honorary law degree from Harvard—disputes that claim...
...unabashedly exploit anti-black sentiment or fail to deliver on any of their promises made in black churches. Instead, they should pledge allegiance to programs of racial uplift worldwide. Black people should support President Bush in his efforts to save the lives of other black people, including those in Darfur, while vociferously condemning his efforts that hurt them, such as ending affirmative action, withholding money from global AIDS funding and overthrowing the democratically elected government of Haiti. Despite the significant progress that black people have made since the end of slavery and colonization, black people are still collectively oppressed...
...light of the global community’s refusal to forgive the debts of predominantly black developing nations, to fulfill its promised contributions to fighting AIDS, to meet or even seriously consider the millennium development goals to eradicate poverty and hunger, to intervene in the atrocities of Rwanda or Darfur, or to merely report on the poverty, violence and hunger that is wreaking havoc on black communities everywhere, Garvey’s statement is equally true today. Since non-black people have done little to improve the condition of black people, black people must begin to focus on helping each...
...finger This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust.” After a half-millennium during which the world has created, exacerbated and ignored the global plight of black people, it is time for us to draw a similar lesson. During our most terrible tests—Rwanda, Darfur, the AIDS epidemic, mass incarceration, civil wars, impossible national debts, violence in our ghettoes, educational, economic and political inequalities—friends and benefactors have lifted a finger, not to help, but to point the blame back at us. This is the black lesson of our history and Garvey?...
...world had listened, we may have prevented Darfur, Cambodia, Bosnia and naturally Rwanda." ELIE WIESEL, author and Holocaust survivor, speaking on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz...