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At the beginning of his presentation, Rivers likened the political climate surrounding the Sudan genocide to Rwanda’s problems in the last decade.
And Rivers argued that only when black people mobilize as a group does the rest of the country call it divisive. He said no one accused American Jews of being divisive when they mobilized to stop the Holocaust.
“Just as the Jewish community realized at a certain point that they needed to mobilize for themselves in order to challenge the Holocaust, so must black people mobilize,” Rivers responded.
“Awareness of the atrocities and pleading by desperate Rwandans was not enough to provoke intervention until the genocide was complete,” Rivers said.
Rivers also painted the crisis as a case of ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Arabs against blacks in Darfur.