Addressing Darfur

I am stepping back from the passion of romanticism and romance to address a major topic in my next podcast, building it around a piece I am constructing to address the tragedy of Darfur.

Call it genocide, ethnic cleansing, or just madness, it is terror on a scale beyond some well-financed religious fanatics hitting an office building or two. Certainly, it is death on a scale one hundred times greater than the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11/2001.

I guess poor black lives in Africa are not as important to some people as middle-class white American lives. Not in God's eyes. And not in mine. It is evil. A greater evil than some political namecalling. That the United States, that the world, has not addressed this with a vigor and a clarity of thought that burns the skies is a shame and an insult to anyone who would call themselves Christian. That would call themselves human.

So I will speak. Because I cannot be silent. Please listen this Sunday, September 29th, when From Out of the City brings the power of poetry to a purpose greater than a kiss, a dream, a single life or love lost or found.