I've been lax in my MoJo Blog-reading

so I just read these posts.

Yesterday's post is on the 10th anniversary of the beginning of massacres in Rwanda. The sentence that hit me the hardest (and which makes a somewhat obvious point about American/Western diplomacy) was:

"There was no interest from any of the capitals of the world to come and solve the problem, prevent it or stop it once it was in motion. We have a racist background in the white community, of saying our wars are complex, like in Yugoslavia, but black people in Africa killing each other is nothing more than tribalism."

Ouch. It's true.

The post before that covers "The Passion" and anti-semitism. Yeah, I know, it's been discussed before. But I found this passage frightening:

"What is clear, at least according to a new Pew poll, is that people who go see the movie are much more likely than the general population to think the Jews killed Jesus. Of the people who've seen "The Passion," 36 percent think that Jews were responsible for Christ's death. (Of the general population, 26 percent think so.) Then again, most of them -- 29 percent of all viewers -- held that opinion before seeing the film. Says the intro to the poll, "Generally, there is a correlation between seeing the movie, and expressing an intention to see it, with holding the view that Jews were responsible for Christ's death. This is especially the case among younger people."

Ack!