This was written
several years ago…but to add today’s developments:
There’s Putin bombing the hell out of Ukraine, killing innocent women and children because they won’t submit to his authority.
Ten Black people were killed and others injured at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, by white supremacy ignorance.
Little children and teachers murdered at school in Uvalde, Texas, by an 18 year-old because…
A black man was killed by police after he was struck by more than 60 bullets in Akron, Ohio.
The savage barbaric massacre of at least 37 refugees on the border between Morocco and the Spanish exclave of Melilla and over 150 people injured during beatings by the security forces to prevent them from entry into the country.
The civil war in Ethiopia has left an estimated half-million people dead.
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During the five European Christian “Crusades,” thousands of Muslims and many Jews were murdered in massive pilgrimages with the ordination and leadership of the Popes for Zion.
Which includes the “Children’s Crusade”
when thousands of children were sent out to the Holy Land only to be sold as slaves or died of hunger and disease.
Under Adolf Hitler, Germans murdered Poles, Communist and various other groups of men, women and children, and the six million Jews the history book lists.
Over a hundred Italians died under Benito Mussolini’s rule of terrorist black shirts.
Joseph Stalin was responsible for tens of millions through murder,
artificial famine and scurvy – people worked to death in his death camps in Siberia.
Russians were responsible for thousands of Hungarians murdered when they rebelled against Communist power.
Russians also murdered Afghans in its quest to conquer and add new acquisitions.
The children of Soweto were cut down in the street by white South Africans invaders for the land’s bounty of gold and diamond riches.
The English, Belgians, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the French and other European nations have murdered millions and millions of Africans – for hundreds of years.
Frenchmen murdered Asians and left many others destitute – to die on lands forcibly occupied.
China has murdered Chinese –
Many were murdered under Communist China – perhaps ten million.
Under the Khmer Rouge Regime –a Cambodian Communist guerilla force – an estimated 3 million Cambodians were killed.
Indonesians have erased the names of hundreds of thousands of Communist and Christians.
Christian Serbs, Bosnian Muslims, and Croats
vented their murderous reign.
Idi Amin murdered Uganda’s Africans in the hundreds of thousands – as he instituted his harsh, brutal regime during his eight-year Da Da terror reign.
Angolans murdered Angolans.
Violence between the National Front based in Zaire, the Soviet-based Popular Movement aided by Cuba, and the National Union aided by the U.S. and So. Africa killed thousands and left the land in despair.
Rwandan Hutus savagely murdered hundreds of thousands of Tutsi Rwandans and other Hutus in house and village raids with their bloody hatchets and blades slicing the life from women and children.
Liberians have murdered Liberians for power and who will rule. And the same is the case of other African nations whose numerous murderous conflicts are too numerous to count.
White Americans murdered millions of Africans they forced into slavery. They tried to wipe out the Native Americans – murdering nations of people and forced onto substandard reservations where the destitution is weary worn.
Spaniards have murdered the natives of various lands and wiped out the heritages completely.
And let’s not forget their “Inquisition” period.
South and Central Americans have murdered South and Central Americans.
More than I know or can imagine - which also include the native inhabitants who they literally wiped off the map.
Nearly all of the native
Indians of Argentina were murdered – a now lost
generation.
Brazil has lost most of its Indian tribes through the Portuguese occupation.
Under President Trujillo, Dominicans killed thousands of Haitians on a murderous rampage.
The French did dastardly deeds against the Haitians of ghastly proportions!
Even the Haitians have murdered other Haitians to this age.
A Hindu Indian murdered Gandhi – a Hindu, regarded as the father of independent India,
because of his tolerance and civility to give the Muslims their rightful due.
The country was partitioned into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan and numerous murderous acts have followed.
English Protestant Christians and Irish Catholic Christians have waged murderous acts for years – and continue to divide the faith and peers.
Black Muslims Americans murdered Malcolm.
White Christian Americans murdered John and Jack.
Then they murdered Martin because he was black
and gave them civil rights flack
Palestinians murder Jews in suicide bombings.
Jews murder Palestinians…
Isn’t it alarming!?
Iraqis, under Saddam, murdered Sunnis, Shiites, and the Kurdish race – all of a Muslim religious faith base.
Iraqis and Iranians have murdered each other - father and son.
And the violence in Iraq rages on and on and on.
Muslim Arabs are murdering the Sudanese Africans in this turbulent ugly bloody terrorism reign.
Osama unleashed his Jihad holy facade
with his murderous bombing airplanes brigade.
As the Jihad terrorist continue to plot their violent war against mankind.
And these are just the murderous mentions that come to mind.
Oh, and let’s not forget …
somebody murdered Biggie and Tupac.
And of course, we can’t forget Rwanda.
The bloody hacking rampage,
The mascaraed bodies of little children left lying along the highways and byways,
Left there by other little children’s bloody handiwork!!
Then came the war in Iraq to fuel oil hungry world powers;
And all the rest which follows.
Over 200,000,000 people were killed in the last century in wars and rebellious uprisings.
When is it going to stop??
Can man rise to become a man with meaning -
to become a truly civilized being?
So far, it seems not.
(Further present day events would take up another page…or two).
“The time test of civilization is not the census,
Nor the size of cities, nor the crops –
No, but the kind of man the country turns out.”
_____Ralph Waldo Emerson_____
To Define a Civilized Society
To be civilized -
is to be cultured, refined, enlightened
Civilization means -
cultivation, enlightenment, refinement
To be “civil” -
is to be polite, courteous, well-mannered, mannerly,
respectful, to be gracious, gentlemanly, cordial,
affable, neighborly
“Civil”- as in rights -
means citizens’ rights
and civic - relating to public, non-military
It seems we live in a world where people are overwhelmingly hostile, rude, disrespectful, ignorant, ill-mannered, impolite, crude, and/or uncivil.
It seems we live in a largely “uncivilized” society
The antonym is defined as – “barbarous” or “barbaric” – to be barbarians
