Acts of Genocide

The New York Times magazine section ran a terrific article last week on the situation in the Darfur Region of the Sudan. You would have thought that the UN would have learned its lesson in Rwanda. But, alas, the international community has much better things to do than prevent the government-backed mass murder of African villagers. And leave it to the United States media to find a way to demonize Muslims in the process. The racial slant of the Sudanese crisis presented to American citizens by our illustrious, non-biased, corporate news makers is one of the most irresponsible bits of reporting I've seen in a long time. Just because white people feel the need ethnically classify everyone, doesn't mean that those living in Darfur see it that way. It's very easy to blame racial tension because it brings the conflict to the surface, so to speak. But the "Arabs" in Darfur have a skin-tone that's not much lighter than the non-arabs being killed. The anti-Arab xenophobia running rampant in the United States is now being fueled again at the expense of a nation-state that most Americans couldn't give two shits about otherwise. But we'll all wake up one day, won't we?