Media - Don't Ignore Rwanda Genocide Again.

Recently, Hillary Clinton tried to pop Obama's popularity balloon by saying, "it wasn’t the hope that King inspired that made the difference but President Lyndon Johnson’s decision to fight for and sign the Civil Rights Act into law."  So Hillary thinks MLK didn't make a difference?

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired America back in the 1960s and ever since.  He's a hero to my wife and I and our two teenagers.  It is disappointing, but should not be surprising, that Hillary recently diminished Martin Luther King’s role in history for political gain. 

However, that transgression pales in comparison to what the Clintons did to the victims of the Rwanda Genocide in 1994.  You may recall the over 800,000 blacks were butchered in 100 days.  The US, led by Bill Clinton, were obligated to intervene under a 1948 UN Genocide Convention.

 

            

What was the Clinton response to this madness? 

They voted to withdraw UN troops and, mindful of their UN obligation, claimed there were “acts of genocide” in Rwanda but it was not genocide, technically.  If ever there was a time for Hillary to her feminist hat on and disagree with Bill publicly – it would be to stop a genocide that was killing 56,000 blacks each week she waited.

Ironically, Bill, the nation’s "first black President" sidestepped the UN to stop the ethnic cleansing of whites in Kosovo but did nothing to stop the ethnic cleansing of blacks in Rwanda. 

Please don’t ignore my comments because you think I’m one of thousands of "anti-Clinton freaks” complaining about the Clintons again.  Denying genocide is a serious issue and should be addressed in this campaign and in our country. 

Both the Clintons, other 1994 world leaders and the 1994 U.S. media are to blame for abandoning Rwanda.  Will the 2008 media make the same mistake?  Perhaps the reason it doesn't get much media attention today is that many senior members of the media today did nothing in 1994, feel bad about it and do not want to start pointing fingers lest one get pointed back at them.

However, the only way to heal our national wounds over this issue is to take off the dirty bandage we put over it, thereby exposing the ugliness of the leaders who did nothing, wash the wound by holding those leaders accountable and put a new Band-Aid on by making sure we intervene in African genocides, including Darfur, even if the UN does nothing.  It is the only way for our wounds and our soul to heal. 

The media has a choice - help America remember the Rwanda Genocide or, help America forget the Rwanda Genocide?

Remember Rwanda by holding the Clintons accountable.