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Untermonkey

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Wed Mar-22-06 09:16 AM
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7. You're spot on.

I think we don't see much of what is happening in Darfur because starving black people trapped in a war doesn't sell newspapers. We saw the same thing happen 12 years ago in Rwanda. Hundreds of thousands of people killed in a civil war yet very little media coverage.

I believe that if the citizens of Darfur were white Europeans we'd see much more media coverage but they had the unfortunate luck of being born black in a country 99% of Americans couldn't find on a map.

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