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I believe a most important history lesson is being missed here; being lost because so much is being assigned to blame rather than viewing the bigger picture. "Ghosts of Rwanda" at 9 PM tonight on PBS should be a story about hate. Why hate happens. How easy hate can be promoted. Remember, how does one tell the racial difference between a Hutu and Tutsi? Racism and the associated hate is not about genetics - as the spin doctors of hate would have us believe. Hate is more about first impressons - an emotion permitted when logic is subverted.
Why could Hilter kill Jews? Why was Pol Pot so effective? Why could the religious right get the same thing to happen in America by promoting hate of gay? Yes, that is the question. How long would it take the religious right to get us so called righteous Americans to start killing gays?
We called the black man sub human. Why? What were we trying to justify? The question about Rwanda is and again a question about that 'blackness in the eyes'. Easy to hype hate. So easy that we may just be in denial of how easily the righteous religious extremists could promote hate of gays. George Sr did same with the famous lie about "babies were removed from incubators and place on the cold floor to die". No one questioned that testimony so that the lie was even presented, unchallenged, before Congress and national TV. Again, how to promote hate as even Hitler could do in Germany. As the Spanish President Anzar tried to do against the Basques. As NYC police did against a Haitian immigrant only because they believed Haitians create aids and sodomy - again more hate promoted by righteous religious rhetoric.
Sometimes it works. Sometimes it does not create the hate. Why?
Why was hate in Rwanda so successful that Hutus were hacking Tutsi before the first day had ended? A disturbing question not even asked here.
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