Keep Those Candles Lit – Just Make Sure They Are Not All White Ones

Like everyone else I have spoken to, I am saddened by the attack on Ukraine.  I also find it horrifying that Trump is repeatedly praising the ‘genius’ of Putin in his actions. 

As I see the candle vigils, mass prayers and concern, there is one other topic that comes to my mind. 

Racial bias that is media driven. 

You see these are white people in Ukraine in a ‘civilized’ European country.

Not those Arabs in SYRIA.  Their culture has been fighting since time began anyhow.  7,000 died last year in 2020 due to the war that included heinous, atrocious chemical warfare with high civilian/children casualties.  10,000 died in 2019.  The estimate is that after a decade of civil war, as high as 600,000 have died and millions displaced.

What is the predominant thing you hear about Syria?  All those brown-skinned refugees in boats wanting to come into our white countries and how highly inconvenient this is. 

Where will we put them?  We don’t have that many housekeeping positions available.

I would ask that as you pray, you include every person of every race and color, that has been needlessly killed due to war.

I would ask that as you say your prayers you include the 9,000 documented casualties in ETHIOPIA – some say more realistic is 50,000 since their violent civil war started in 2020.

The 350,000 deaths in the fifteen year drug war in MEXICO with 72,000 people missing.

The 20,000 in YEMEN’s civil war that died last year.  140,000 in the last six years of the war.

AFGHANISTAN – 31,000 in 2020.  Now that we, the U.S. has left, that should signal the end of that conflict.  You get that irony, right.

ALGERIA, BURKINA FASO, CAMEROON, CHAD, COLUMBIA, DR CONGO, IRAQ, LIBYA, MALI, MOZAMBIQUE, MYANMAR, NIGER, NIGERIA, SOUTH SUDAN, TANZANIA, TUNISIA – all countries at war, 1000’s killed.

So yes, pray for the day when power hungry bully politicians are silenced, and we begin to act as one human race beautiful in every color, gender, race and creed, all caring for each other.