No Words
We have had Hotel Rwanda from Netflix for at least a month. We kept putting off watching it, not ready for the drama and downer.
We almost put it off again, but I mentioned today happens to be World Refugee Day, and that was that. We watched it.
– Hotel Rwanda plot synopsis on Amazon.com
What a horrific world we live in. The Holocaust? … never again? We humans never, ever learn, and who has the shortest and most self-serving memories? Answer: We, the peoples of nations who consider themselves “superpowers” and “First World” nations (as opposed to “Third World” nations; our language devalues them in every way.)
And I couldn’t help but think, we as Americans after the loss of life in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina had more media dedicated to “Should pets be evacuated by FEMA, as well as people?” than we devote to the ongoing crisis in Darfur and elsewhere…
I love my pets, and would be heart-striken to lose them for any reason, but by God pets aren’t more important than people… (and if someone from P.E.T.A. reads this, you and your “a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy” assinine attitude can fuck off!)
Sorry…
Do see the movie, Hotel Rwanda, if you haven’t. I figure we’re pretty typical (sadly) Americans in that we had not seen the movie when it was in theatres (2005) and only got around to putting it on our Netflix list for viewing… and promptly kept putting it off in favor of feel-good or totally fictional action flicks.
More on Rwanda & Rwandan genocide (Wikipedia)
