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Thread #157576   Message #3720061
Posted By: wysiwyg
30-Jun-15 - 01:02 PM
Thread Name: Why action to end Systemic Racism can't wait
Subject: RE: Why action to end Systemic Racism can't wait
Below is another list, from Jerusha's final speech in the film of Michener's Hawaii.

Abner enters the scene, disgusted and stricken at the deadly plague among the indigenous people, which is near to wiping out the already-diminshed-by-"colonization" population and culture.

Abner: "These things are God's will… not mine! What else but God's wrath has the power to annihilate them?!?!"

(Abner has been stuck in Biblical literalism. His wife wakes him up with a stirring speech, part of which includes):

Jerusha:
"Disease….
Despair…
Our lack of love…
Our inability to find them beautiful.
Our contempt for their ways….
Our lust for their land….
Our greed.
Our arrogance.
That is what kills them, Abner."

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OK, so how do we deal with that, people? You can see the same arrogance offered to young minds daily, in mainstream media.

~Susan