by Dexter Rogers

Created on: April 20, 2009

Without question the United States government should get involved with the genocide in Darfur but they won't. The only way I see American assisting is if America's economic well-being is somehow threatened and public pressure forces them to do so.

President Obama mentioned Darfur on several occasions during his campaign but hasn't uttered a word about it since.

Perhaps that's what politicians do.

Here's some history regarding the Darfur situation. Since 1960 the Chinese have spent 10 billion dollars in the Sudan. Beginning in 2003 China has sold over 50 million dollars in weapons to the Sudanese government which they've used to murder Africans.

China also provides much of the capital and expertise for Sudan's expanding oil industry. They purchase 80 percent of the oil produced in Sudan. The profit from that partnership is helping the Sudanese government kill Africans.

Essentially the Chinese are financing genocide. Nearly 400,000 Africans have been slaughtered in the name of racism and genocide.

Africans who embrace Islam are being slaughtered by Arabs who embrace Christianity. The Chinese, despite knowing what's going on in Darfur, continue to fund a racist Arab regime that continues to massacre Africans.

Sound familiar?

The current genocide Africans are subject to is synonymous with the rise of American slavery. The Africans in Darfur are facing similar atrocities the slaves endured for nearly five centuries ago on American soil. America did little to stop the heinous institution of slavery because it wasn't profitable to do so. A similar situation is currently manifesting in Darfur.

The tragedy in Darfur has been recently viewed through the eyes of Brian Steidle, a former Marine Corps captain. His job was to monitor a cease-fire in Sudan's 20-year civil war between the Arab-run government in the north and the predominantly Christian and Animist south.

Steidle found himself witness to the ruthless and systematic destruction African villages by government-sponsored Arab militias called Janjaweed Arabic for "devil on horseback" in the Darfur region of western Sudan. Steidle suggests, "There is no gray area. People are being killed because they are African, not Arab." He described the Janjaweed people as being "evil, evil people. They smile and shake your hand but you can see it in their eyes. It's like seeing the devil."

Mainstream media is not given the situation the type of attention it deserves nor does American government think its worth it's time to assist. The mainstream media doesn't want us to know what's transpiring in Darfur: it disseminates snippets of the truth and in some cases neglects highly relevant elements about Darfur.

This situation in Darfur is the preeminent example of the hypocrisy practiced by powerful governments across the world and the United States isn't exempt. America turned back millions of Hatian refugees, it failed to Africans in Rwanda in a timely manner, and on American soil the government moved in tortoise-like fashion in assisting African Americans in Louisiana as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

While America continues to fights a senseless war in Iraq former President Bush and current President Obama have done nothing to cease the violence. The American government should stop the Chinese from doing business with Sudanese government to finance genocide which will decrease the slayings.

But until America steps up and tries to end the genocide it will only continue. But if history is best indicator of future behavior the American government will only engage unless it's forced to do and there's an economic benefit.

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