WILL DARFUR BE WATCHING THE CHINESE OLYMPICS ?

GENOCIDE IS NOT AN OLYMPIC SPORT

As I was watching the Wimbledon final on Sunday with Rafael Nadal defeating Roger Federer, the commercial for the Beijing Olympics certainly caught my attention. But not for the reason that it would be expected. The NBC Olympic promotion music was John Lennon's Imagine. The words written across the screen were Imagine the World United and at the end of the spot the words of Imagine that were left with us were The World Will Live As One. The Beijing Olympics theme of One World, One Dream has been promoted for months now. All this "Warm and Fuzzy" spirit is wonderful. The contradiction is the part that China is playing in being a central player in the Darfur genocide that is in its sixth year. The World Will Not Live As One as long as we all ignore the genocide going on while we celebrate the spirit of the Olympics.

NBC Coverage of the Chinese Olympics versus the Coverage of the Darfur Genocide - Imagine the contrast.
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Satirical animation shows China's cynical use of the Olympics to burnish its own image -- while underwriting a genocide in Darfur.
From: dream4darfur
Switch Over to Darfur

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One World, One Dream - The Chinese Olympics Theme


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