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The U.S. Must Live Up to Its Ideals |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Mvemba Phezo Dizolele |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 865 Words, 5,453 Characters |
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail in 1963. "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."
As a boy growing up in Zaire, I watched with dismay the images of civil rights demonstrations on television. My young mind was marked by pictures of white police officers beating helpless black teenagers while ferocious dogs clung to their flesh. "That America is a hell of a place," I wondered.
Born after independence, I did not experience the brutal Belgian colonial regime my parents endured decades earlier. The little I knew about colonia...
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...nore for too long concerning Africa.
Like Southern leaders in 1963, we often refuse to address the root cause of the problem, focusing instead on the outward expression of frustration. Like Northern leaders, we think the Southern problem will not affect us. It will. In the fight for human dignity, we are either with the oppressed or with the oppressor.
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