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Us & Them & Us
Posted by Wallace+
Two columns, in particular, from the NYT's Sunday "Week in Review" section are must reads:
Nick Kristof's column, "Message to Muslims: I'm Sorry" is right on. The best line of all: "This isn't about them, but about us." Amen, brother. The current ugliness about Islam swirling around in American consciousness is something that we Americans must attend to, something that we must take responsibility for. We can't pass that off on anyone else. It is, yes, about us, us Americans.
And then Bono's column on the Millennium Development Goals is excellent; a good reminder, a good update, and some strong suggestions on going forward. It's about "us," members of the developed world, and "them," members of the developing world: Of course there really is no "them." There is only "us." Members of the one human family, children of one God.
May God bless us, may God bless us all.
Amen, amen.
What are the Millennium Development Goals?
Read basic facts about the MDG's (each represented by a different icon below) at http://www.undp.org/mdg/basics.shtml.
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