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May 25, 2004
A Quick Note on Dar Fur
In seeing Dar Fur coverage over the past month, I have been consistently annoyed with the characterizations of "Black" or "African" with the meaning of black versus "Arab."
I suppose I should despair of the international media getting this right, but these "Arab" militias are not significantly different in skin color or physical type from the Fur -often they are of similar background, except the nomads seem rather more "Arabized" than the settled people. (For all that the name cited for their militia is hardly Arabic) This is ethnic not racial warfare, and deeper than that, settled versus nomad strife over declinging water resources, tied into of course the larger political conflict.
Ah well, no stupider than those conspiracy theories I have seen of late on the Lefty websites re Berg killing being faked by Americans, because the people involved were "too white." Ignorant twits. Bloody well should visit Jordan and Lebanon before fucking rambling on about "too white."
Posted by The Lounsbury at May 25, 2004 02:32 PM
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