Word: evil
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...Time For Forgiveness," February 21) a searching query which if either Vanke or Martin Kilson could provide an intellectually satisfactory answer to, both of us would warrant the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in science and economics. Jeffrey Vanke's searching query is this: When, following purposely cruel and evil violations of one people's humanity by another people (such as the violation of Blacks' humanity by White American slavocracy and the genocidal violation of Jewish humanity by the 20th century German Nazi state), does the complex process of Christian forgiveness of the perpetrators of such evil commence...
...statement is callous and reeks of an apologist approach to violence. To suggest that bombings are warranted against a people who have taken courageous steps towards peace, to the point of compromising their own security, is contemptible. No one is to blame for the evil of blowing children to pieces except those that perpetrate that evil...
...news, I'd say that it takes a special attraction to the evasion of moral responsibility toward one's fellow human beings, which the old Confederates of the 19th century--and the neo-Confederates of today--exemplify, to declare there's statute of limitations on acts of extraordinary evil, whether or not they were committed by one's ancestors. --Lee A. Daniels '71 Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
...Olympic Games in Munich, athletes competed beneath the unfurled flags of Nazi Germany--flags symbolizing a regime that spawned worldwide evil and terror. In Atlanta in the summer of 1996, barring significant political developments, athletes will again have to collect their Olympic medals under a flag which represents the vilest capacities of man--the Confederate flag, an integral part of the Georgia state flag. Indeed, both flags stand for a holocaust--one of Jews slaughtered in ovens, the other of Africans who perished during the Middle Passage...
...even more assertive acts of resistance are necessary. The Georgia state flag should be burned--great bonfires of this symbol of evil should be lit all over Atlanta. Furthermore, the Confederate flag should be torn down wherever it is raised. To allow it to fly without serious, even militant challenge is unpatriotic and unacceptable...