An Essay: They're Just Africans Anyway, Right?

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Saturday September 23, 2006 · 1:24 PM PDT

2006/09/23 · 13:24

You don't know when it was that you first heard there was trouble in Darfur. You like to be aware of the news. You read blogs. And one day you are reading about trouble in Darfur. Suddenly you are learning new words like "janjaweed" and "Khartoum". And then there is the not new word: "genocide". You read a summary about the bad things happening in Darfur. And one of these bad things you read about involves live babies being thrown into fires. And you let that knock around in your head. Babies thrown into fires. Read More

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