SusanG and the Rescue Rangers do all they can to highlight some of the day's overlooked diaries. Usually the Diary Rescue feature is enough, but tonight I felt compelled to do a little more.
Tonight, a first-time diarist posted An Essay: They're Just Africans Anyway, Right?.
Please read it. Please recommend it.
First-time diarist eliza2905 writes:
You don't know when it was that you first heard there was trouble in Darfur. You like to be aware of the news. You read blogs. And one day you are reading about trouble in Darfur. Suddenly you are learning new words like "janjaweed" and "Khartoum". And then there is the not new word: "genocide". You read a summary about the bad things happening in Darfur. And one of these bad things you read about involves live babies being thrown into fires. And you let that knock around in your head. Babies thrown into fires.
And first-time diarist Eliza2905 is right.
Our life moves on and there are more emails and more legislation. And you try not to think about the babies being thrown into fires. On the television you might even hear Darfur mentioned in between the Michael Jacksons and Natalee Holloways. And you hear Nicholas Kristof say he is writing the same story over and over. And you see he is right.
If we were alive and blogging during the Holocaust what would we have done?