>Does this excuse hundreds of years
>of racial injustice perpetuated on
>a scale previously unknown to
>humankind (even in the French
>Caribbean) by "White", "white", ""white""
>people? Does the fact that
>every other racial or ethnic
>group on the planet practices
>some reprehensible injustices (Trokosi slavery
>in Ghana, child prostitution in
>Thailand, boys performing ritual fellatio
>on grown men in New
>Guinea) somehow give white folks
>a free pass to dismiss
>their past and continuing atrocities?
>I don't get your comparison
>at all.

Of course not. What I am saying is that evilness is not a function of race, and that should not be forgotten.

I another post I talk of how white-Americans used to flock to lynchings. Today in Afghanistan people attend public executions in their thousands.

So while it may be convenient and simpler to say "some atrocities are worse than others", I think that to transform that concious simplification into an unconcious truth is dangerous.

No atrocity is excusable. Remember that perhaps the worse atrocity of this century was committed in Rwanda.

AIM: mke1978

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