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steve10c
Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:43:13 +0000

But why would black people care more about Darfur? If its because they watch different media then this country still has a segregation problem. But thats not true. If its because they went to different schools that emphasize different values then we can attribute it not to skin color but to geography and probably more accurately random variation.

Maybe, and most probably, black people might be slightly more likely to care about Darfur or people assume they are because they look like the people being massacred in a very superficial way. If that is the case, they care because of the wrong reasons–because of race-based reasons in an age where race is not supposed to be an issue to discriminate–and that is part of the problem. People should care because people are dying, not because of skin color. People should be admitted based on who they are not what they look like. Same principle.

Incidentally I’m a third-generation Irish-American and I don’t do anything about the “troubles” even though “my” people are suffering because of it. Why? Because I care about people, not people who have red hair and freckles. Darfur is a bigger problem because more people are dying and we can do more about it. Uganda is a problem because we can do a lot. Poverty is a problem because we can litterally save lives, and I don’t care what color the people are if they need malaria medicine.

(By the way, if only black people are involved [or mostly black people] then can we assume the school is largely self-segregated? Because that would definitly suggest it would be and that also suggests the real problem being closet racism.)