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Originally posted by abaici
Well, I guess my circle. My undergraduate degree is in history (concentration:Africa) and I completed graduate level studies in African history. So, the situation is not new to me. Is it the protest on the same level as Apartheid?...no. But consider how long it took for people to become outraged about that system. How long did it take for people to really take a stand against that? Protests didn't intensify until the 1908s. Apartheid existed as a system in South Africa from the late 1940s until the first free elections. That's almost 50 years!! Why did it take so long? People knew what was going on, and no one did anything.
This is a human problem. However, I simply disagree that African Americans should be more outraged. African Americans are no more responsible for leading the cry to end this then any other group. Everyone should care about this. As Dr. King stated, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
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I'm talking about the level of outrage among the black community in America towards South Africa. You are taking this back to the 1940s before the civil rights movement in America. That doesn't make sense.
You know what? If I came from a region, I would care more than people that didn't come from there. If my history in America was so effected by slavery, then I would care more about the current slavery there. But hey that's me.
And Senusret, I still don't see lots of protests about what happens in Nigeria.
Chinese members of the Falun Gong protest daily across the country.
On any given day, Jews protest the fact that our brothers and sisters are slaughtered and murdered by Arab terrorists.
I see protests against the war.
I see protests to legalise drugs.
I see protests for affirmative action.
I see protests for reparations for US slavery.
So why don't I see these protests to prevent ethnic cleansing of blacks in Africa? Why don't I see these protests to stop slavery in Africa?
And I am using what I see because I'm not in a particular circle. I walk by the Federal building, downtown, was a college student, etc. I am not using outraged emails on a listserv or quiet conversations among my friends, because if I did that then that would mean that everyone was as smart as my friends.
-Rudey