Some Thoughts From Embry Malone, Georgia Gwizzlies, About Darfur
July 1, 2007 - American Basketball Association (ABA)
Georgia Gwizzlies News Release
Macon, GA. For the past few years, I watched and witnessed countless individuals in Detroit, Atlanta, Dekalb, Georgia, nationally and worldwide shed rivers of tears over two icons who passed away in the civil rights community. One I knew personally and up close for the past 26 years and once told one of her children that I was "eccentric."
I was in shock and awe of the long lines of the masses waiting in tears to take a glimpse, to be a part of history. The anguish and teams at times was just too much to watch on TV, so I meditated and reflected on my 26 years in the presence of this great human spirit that commanded four US Presidents in one Lithionia church service.
Knowing the way, how that great human spirit felt, though and call to direct action, the only thing that could come to my mind is the "wretched of the earth" called Darfur. The suffering of children and families of Darfur, a region in the Sudan, Central Africa is on the brink, slow form of a holocaust. Not since the 1960's have we seen so many people in lamentations, yet not over Darfur precious infants who will not be among the living by the time this article is published.
The great human spirit I knew would want the masses to gather again, be emotionally charged to change the conditions of genocide that exist in Darfur. The lack of public media coverage about the conditions in Darfur has the same signs as "let's wait and see" that existed in the 1930's Wiemar Republic in Germany. The Nationalist Socialist party in Berlin Reichstaff congress was elected, not rejected. On the website, www.darfurgenocide.org, you will read and witness the horrors of many against humanity. It was once said by an inspired writer, orator from Auburn Avenue, "If you want to be great and be remembered, then go out and help somebody and your living will not be in vain Dekalb. America. The children and suffering families of Darfur need your helping hand now. (Embry. Well said. Particularly as we celebrate on Independence this week.
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