| "Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."
-Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Elias
Kasiwa i
makasimba ere
ndakasimba kana makasimba ow
ndakasimba
You raise your head, you beat the sun
but your boys they lie so close to you
Do you dare get up and wake the two
Oh Elias, I see you there at work in the daytime
Do you think you could answer all the questions in the world?
In just one word- I think you could
'Cause if you die will I get word that you’re gone
or will I hear it in passing conversation
or will I stop short and fall to the ground
Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found
Hold my hand just one more time
to see if you're really going to meet me
Hold my hand just one more time
to see if you're really going to meet me
honest and manuel, well they're at school now
Given the chance that their father's never seen
to see what's beyond section 17
And in ten years when you look back at your boys
Well you know they've grown way taller than the tallest
Sugar cane in the field
'Cause if you die will I get word that you’re gone
or will I hear it in passing conversation
or will I stop short and fall to the ground
Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found
I see your wife she stands stooped over by the fire outside
and I see your boys and when they look up
You know I think they got their mother's eyes
'Cause she looks so proud, she looks so happy
'Cause if you die will I get word that you’re gone
or will I hear it in passing conversation
or will I stop short and fall to the ground
Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found
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This is my Guatemala memory song.
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME????
This is shameful.
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11 countries have laws against Holocaust denial.
Some argue that these laws violate free speech. One man charged
in Austria with a prison term for his denial of the Holocaust
said it was "ridiculous" that he was being tried for expressing an opinion.
In support of the laws, Karen Pollock, chief executive of the UK's Holocaust Educational Trust remarked, "Holocaust denial is anti-Semitism dressed up as intellectual debate. It should be regarded as such and treated as such."
What do you think?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4734648.stm
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