Sara M. Medina-Ramos

What Color Is Humanity?



Posted: Monday, November 13, 2006

by Sara M. Medina-Ramos
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After all these years, embedded in my mind from my school age times are the atrocities of the holocaust in Germany and in Europe. It impacted me in ways I have only begun to understand today after mature enlightenment of my worldly views of global injustices and carnage in the 21st century obligates me to take note and write of my feelings about it. How did the world succumb to such a vicious historical cycle that brings us back to the same conditions of apathy about the genocide in Africa as it was in Germany with the holocaust? Why haven’t world leaders taken a more proactive approach to Africa’s government corruption that is effecting the survival of its people, its valuable cultures, traditions, and its necessary economic participation into global financial markets?

It took too many agonizing years and intolerable suffering of a people for world leaders to finally put an end to the genocide at Hitler’s realms of evil. Six million people died; at least that is what historians tell us, because of whom they were and what they believed. The total number of deaths is probably much more than history is willing to live with or tell about. I say the world as a people died during that era of unthinkable imaginings and continue to do so even today. This is a world of global peoples whose ignorance and indifference about their governments’ political conniving caused the procrastination of the inevitable of a world war that would have prevented the deaths of millions and the ultimate invasion of Europe by a maniac depressant as Hitler.

How long will the world be a bystander at the genocide that has been taking place for years in Darfur and the unspeakable atrocities occurring now in all of Africa? When will the world leaders and the peoples of the world hold these governments accountable for the loss of millions of lives, lives whose love for life, peace, and pursuit of happiness is no different than yours or mine? What color is humanity?

The media will tell you that there are about 500,000 deaths in Darfur and about 4.0 million people currently displaced. They will tell you that the violence is now overflowing into Chad and other bordering towns and villages. Sometimes, they don’t tell you anything. About the only media covering the slaughter accurately is the Internet. I must challenge the reasons for the non-exposure to this issue. I believe that the deaths are in the millions and that the violence will overtake the whole of Africa. Military and civil unrest, government corruption and the fleecing of natural resources by the wealthy and the powerful are taking their toll on Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Africa and the whole African continent. Muslims killing Muslims in the name of Islam: genocide for control of land, wealth and power, all while the world leaders turn a blind eye in the name of political correctness and interest while siphoning the attention from their own corruption and conflicts.

The United Nations’ resolutions to Africa’s corruption and killing field is to provide its strong objections and its rising concerns about war crimes and crimes against humanity, but actionable response is nil to none. Talk is cheap and there seems to be plenty of it by our world leaders and the United Nations. Perhaps this lack of action is the result of their own participation in fleecing Africa of its resources while increasing their bank-rolls and profits, personal or corporate. Hitler never negated or denied his intentions regarding the Jewish people. In fact, he was very clear to the world…and the world ignored him until they could no more.

With malice, we, the global people of the world, must ask the intentions of our world leaders’ non-resolve in regards to Africa. Humanity should be asking…what color are we?

Sara Margarita Medina-Ramos

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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)
» left by Joseph
from Austin, TX 5 years 163 days ago.
Sara, thanks for a heart-felt article on the atrocities in Darfur and other parts of Africa. One of the solutions to intervening in Darfur is to strengthen the UN as a world body, however US Amb. John Bolton seems intent on destroying the institution for his own warped agenda. We need to fully participate in the UN and learn to be a better global neighbor.
» left by Ayodele Arowosegbe
from Ogun State, Nigeria 5 years 161 days ago.
Thanks for this article, it really touched me. It is time for the whole world to rise up and take responsibility for each other's welfare.
» left by straight talk
 5 years 159 days ago.
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None- this was a very good article. Too bad few truly live their faith. The simple fact is until people put into practice who and what they say they are killing, murder, exploiting will continue. In my opinion Africa and Dafur has little economically to offer. It is sadly a cost itme on the ledger sheet. In my opinion it is the sin of sins the worlds leaders will have to deal with when they cross over. Mercy-compassion-love the highest spiritual level of all faiths. Where is it?
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