Wofgang is practicing racism

Thanks for the support, but she obviously doesn't mean me. (grin)

I've never been in Sudan, but I've been (before the Darfur conflict) in its Western neighbour where most of the Darfurian refugees now go to, in Chad. My brother has been there in a development project and my (adopted, obviously) niece and goddaughter is black, born in the South of Chad. Most of the money I donate still goes to a school project in Chad.

One cannot overlook the ethnic background of conflicts there between a population that consider themselves (and are considered by others) as 'Arabs' (correctly or not) and much darker skinned people living predominantly in the South considered by the "Arabs" as "Negroes" or blacks. The genetic difference between Subsaharan Africans and Africans living in the Sahara or north of it is hugh. In countries like Chad and Sudan both populations are living in the same country and that is one source of the conflict.

One has to be "colour" and not only colour-blind to not see in the South of Chad that the local elite (police chief, prefect) are usually of a lighter tone of skin and have quite different facial features than nearly all other villagers. The racism there takes by the way quite the same form as racism in Europe (and perhaps America?): the lighter end of the continuum of skin colours consider themselves 'better' and treat the others as 'second class'.

My understanding of the Sudan situation is that this kind of racism contributes to the conflict and that the genetic difference between the groups involved is larger than ussually the genetic difference is between neighbouring groups of people.

Wolfgang