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The "action" of millions was to be a victim and be killed in one of the worst genocides we have seen in the last 50 years. Or do you only judge the "actions" of the ones doing the killing?
Is the "R" word supposed to signify your trump card in any race/ethnic discussion? Does the 'action' of the extremist Hutu militia's ethnic cleansing (extermination) of an estimated million plus Tutsi & moderate Hutu NOT connote extreme ethnic predjudice?
Mr. Clinton called it the worst regret of his administration.
Is the "R" word supposed to signify your trump card in any race/ethnic discussion? Does the 'action' of the extremist Hutu militia's ethnic cleansing (extermination) of an estimated million plus Tutsi & moderate Hutu NOT connote extreme ethnic predjudice?
Mr. Clinton called it the worst regret of his administration.
As historian David Newbury notes, the term "Hutu" in precolonial times probably meant "those not previously under the effective rule of the court, and non-pastoralist (though many 'Hutu' in western Rwanda owned cattle, sometimes in important numbers)" (David Newbury, Kings and Clans. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991, 277). More generally, the Tutsi/Hutu distinction seems to have made sense in relation to the political hierarchy of a kingdom. It accordingly differed, and changed, in accord with the political fortunes of the different kingdoms and with the degree of integration of different regions into those kingdoms.
Under colonial rule, first by the Germans and then by the Belgians, this hierarchical division was racialized and made more rigid. Ethnic identity cards were required, and the state discriminated in favor of Tutsi, who were considered to be closer to whites in the racial hierarchy. This was reinforced by versions of history portraying the Tutsi as a separate "Hamitic" people migrating into the region from the north and conquering the Bantu- speaking Hutu. In fact, current historical evidence is insufficent to confirm to what extent the distinction arose by migration and conquest or simply by social differentiation in response to internal economic and political developments.
In the post-colonial period, for extremists on both sides, the divide has come to be perceived as a racial division. Political conflicts and inequalities in the colonial period built on and reinforced stereotypes and separation. Successive traumatic conflicts in both Burundi and Rwanda entrenched them even further. Despite the efforts of many moderates and the existence of many extended families crossing the Hutu/Tutsi divide, extremist ideologies and fears are deadly forces. Far from being the product of ancient and immutable "tribal" distinctions, however, they are based above all in political rivalries and experiences of current generations.
Do you understand the difference between "race" and "ethnic"?
Luckily, in this country, we allow the more educated to determine what is racist and what is not. Otherwise we would have the Klan deciding.
Was a somewhat decent movie but made me sick to see how they act like animals over there since this was a true story. It reminded me why i could care less for any charities that help the race that call themselves Africans. Any race that will "hack" a million humans to death is hopeless.
schmalt's,
Ever hear the phrase, "Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it". I brought up the comparison to Nazi Germany.
You said
Can you tell who makes up the race calling themselves "Africans"?
Whether you are being racist or not doesn't really matter to me. What I don't understand is what you are trying to say. That blanket statement about "their" society is viewed inherently to be at best anti black and at worst racist. Maybe do a better job of explaining what you meant by saying "they" are a hopeless society.
Genocide took place in the former Yugoslav Republics and we sent troops and airplanes in to stop it. Those societies are dependent on the rest of the world for aid but are not considered hopeless. Nazi Germany was dependednt on imported slave labor from lands they had seized, it was dependent on the "neutral" Swiss to assit them and they depended upon other country's natural resources which they plundered.
The comparison to what took place in Rawanda vs. anywhere else that genocide took place is not only valid it is important to compare them.
Nemont
Schmalts,
Do you even read what I post?
Nemont
Nemont, you asked for more Clarification about whom i am addressing in Africa, but I am addressing Africans in general. If i broke it down further i would be called a racist so i guess it is funny that you would ask.
Political correctness will be the downfall of race relations in many ways. When i feel someone needs to be criticized, i do it regardless of their Race, color, or creed.
Schmalts,
Do you even read what I post?
Nemont