http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l7HYddZGLE <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l7HYddZGLE>
Bill Clinton's history prof at Georgetown U, Carroll Quigley, made it sound to me in his book Tragedy and Hope, as if the Germans treated Africans better than the English did. It sounded as if the Germans were more about building railroads and public works than pre-meditated genocide for minerals like the English and the slaughter of the Matabeles. Well, it seems that to build the public works and railroads the Germans worked a person to death in six months. A lot of South African men killed themselves in their war against Namibians about twenty years ago. They came up against the myth that they were killing for Jesus, as they had been told, as they came to see real people. I met a Namibian woman last summer. Before that, a South African black woman. Both were blissfully enjoying a seemingly new world with their white friends. Actually you can imagine that some of the sources in the video, the white historians, could participate in a new peace, but they have the historical memory necessary for moving along. In the end of the video, the impression given is that the Germans do not know their history. We Americans do not see ourselves, either, we white Americans, and so we are still repeating the mistakes of the US, of the English against the Irish and Africans, of the Germans in Namibia. Here we go again, US troops invading Somalia. I know a Somali woman who lost her entire family to one US Navy bomb last year. The only explanation is that the US Navy and US people are possessed by the same dream state of the sleepwalking Germans in Namibia a hundred years ago. We are still insane parallel killers; cannibals for money or Jesus or liebenschraum or white supremacist meddling. We are insane. We still must be suffering under an "impoverished narrative", a history like white Nambibians have been trying to maintain, sanitized of genocide and in denial to this day. When I was growing up, we learned about the deadly German innocence and denial. We did not learn a thing about our own deadly innocence and denial which menaces Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ecuador, Chile, Venezuela, Iran, Colombia with a bomb here and a Predator missile there and a false flag car/atm bomb and an oil manager's strike. -Bob
