Reflection #12

Genocide is systematic killing of a racial or cultural group. Once again I would have to go inside of these peoples head to see what is clicking or not clicking rather. Some questions I would like to ask myself as I’m writing this essay, how can someone just decide to kill off a group? Why would someone do it? And is anyone capable of genocide...To decide to kill a group or a person I would have to say that maybe it is because that person is a threat to me or I feel I am better than them. In retrospect to the Emmett Till the Anglo Saxons thought that the black man was a threat to them. They thought that the African Americans would take over and take their wives. They saw that the population of African Americans were increasing and so they being superior (having too much power), thought it was alright to treat blacks as inferior people. Well you might now say what this has anything to do with genocide? Everything, I think that the death of one boy Till was a wakeup call for blacks not to go through genocide like the Jews went through. The same could have happen to blacks; we could have gone through one too. I believe genocide does not care who you are all it takes is for one group to hate another and it can happen to any race or cultural group. Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur all basically did the same thing the kill because oh you look different than I do, or because you were not of the same background as them. The things they would do to these people were inhuman phenomenon. Burning people alive and shooting them in a straight line naked. They humiliated the people, by cutting their hair, not feeding them properly so that they would die anyways. They would also rape the people how can people be so cruel to do such a thing? How can people be so heartless with their own kind? To know how another human feel the same pain you go through they are going through. Who do they think they were to choose who lives and who dies. No one has the right (in my opinion) to kill anyone no matter who you are. Who do these people think they were? I guess I could even go as far to say they were a god. Seriously, thinking about all the stuff I have learned about genocide if anyone decides to do something like this truly the world will end (as some people believe). Just to think because I think I am better than you I will kill you to feel what? Things are B.S to me. How can we become that tomorrow if we kill off our today?