It takes a clear head to drill into the bedrock of history, especially when that history contains some pretty atrocious acts. Lucky for us, Stephen Fry is up to the task.
Racism makes no damn sense to me. No damn sense whatsoever…
As the turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri, unfolds, questions about the United States’ commitment to human rights are once more headlining news coverage around the world. The uncomfortable international spotlight on such domestic problems should not be surprising. American racial inequality regularly dominated foreign news coverage during the 1950s and 1960s. U.S. policymakers were eventually forced to respond, in part to protect America’s image abroad. Read more on Foreign Affairs
My thoughts:
I am not sure if this is a defining moment in our history, but it certainly points to the fact that we have a far way yet to go in fixing us. This means that we, as a country, must be careful with motes.
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. By Ta-Nehisi Coates
My thoughts:
This is a seminal piece of writing by one of the most refreshing and bright young black thinker/writer around today. This is certainly a must read for all peoples of conscience (notice I did not say only black folks). It will or should cause us all to think about the vicious damage that the hateful scourge of racism, in its myriad forms, has caused and continue to cause in the black experience in America. The conversation must be started, this certainly is an opening.
A 22-year-old photographer was gang-raped by five men in India’s financial capital Mumbai on Thursday, evoking comparisons with a similar incident in Delhi in December that led to nationwide protests…Continue Read @ Reuters
Thoughts: Downright friggin’ disgusting and every male within Indian society should be ashamed of this. It’s like every week you hear about this sh!t happening in India. The people (mainly women) it seems take to the street in protest, but it all dies down and a few weeks later another episode. Doesn’t the fact that this is making international news move the leadership of this huge country to take action; how about the men taking this for action. This is friggin’ out of control already – who the heck are these dudes who continue to conduct such vile actions against the women of their country? I would support public execution…it is full time this crap stops.
My wife pointed out this poem to me written after the Massacre (including the cold-blooded killing of 20 children). I have not written much about this. I was just so torn up by the whole thing. It goes well beyond the “Gun” issue. It is just pure the thought of such evil existing in this world. I will delve into that more in future times, but for now check out this poem –
On June 30, 2009, the bodies of three teenaged girls and a 50-year-old woman were found in a car submerged in the Kingston Mill Locks.
They were identified as 19-year-old Zainab Shafia, 17-year-old Sahar Shafia, 13-year-old Geeti Shafia and Rona Amir Mohammad, their father’s first wife in his polygamous marriage.
The girls, who were born in Afghanistan and moved to Montreal in 2007, were returning home from a family road trip to Niagara Falls.
The deaths were initially considered an accident. An autopsy determined their cause of death to be drowning.
Source: Original story - CBC News  / The Verdict - CBC News
My Comments:
In this day and age, what culture would give a man the authority to kill his wife and 3 daughters.  What egotistical, self-centered, Bull-Sh…. is this?  Four beautiful women taken out because of some prideful @$$.  One can only hope that he will get what’s coming to him.  Totally wicked and senseless…senseless!
