Past Injustices To forge a just society would involve being able to believe in peace within our world. To be human is to forgive those who have wronged us or those who share different beliefs. We are a country who fights for human rights all over the planet. We are a people who see torture and genocide as intolerable. We are one of five countries that still administer the death penalty. Have we learned nothing from the past? "We are witness to human suffering that is caused by violence being treated with violence. The guilty and innocent on death row awaiting their fate is a mental picture that does not seem possible in this century. Killing is never justified! Countless of innocent men are placed in death row with no evidence of wrongdoing and sometimes with clear and unmistakable evidence of innocence. Many groups have committed crimes against other people they viewed as different which meant they must be dangerous and a threat. I know this discussion asked for past injustices and affirmative action as a form of contrition and compensation. I personally think affirmative action is not the answer to past injustices which are still common in every human society around the globe. Just watch the evening news! We will see that the same old inhuman and evil acts against humanity are insidiously creeping back in different parts of the world, even in our own backyard, America! While we may not be directly responsible for past criminal and heinous crimes but we all should remain sensitive not indifferent and “cold” and inhuman from what Blacks, Jews, Native American and other minorities suffered. We may not be responsible for past atrocious acts but we certainly are obligated and responsible making sure that these barbaric acts remain in the past. Let us all remain alert and regain the sensitivity lacking in this new generation. Let us all soften our callous hearts against our own kind, “human!” We should care because we are a part of each other regardless of race and ethnicity. Let’s roll back the curtain for just on moment. What did Hitler say? He said “we are building a German race that will last a thousand years.” One of the first actions Hitler took when he began Chancellor of Germany was to begin to execute disabled children. If Germans were to constantly manifest themselves as the master race then the genetically flawed Germans need to be removed. And the world stood by, closed their eyes and turned their ‘hearing aids off’ allowing Nazi Germany to kill more than six millions Jews. When the world woke up from their slumber and stupor, they had the audacity to say “we did not know.” How could they not have any idea! Holocaust survivors and their families will never be compensated for their dehumanization and the cruelties committed against them. Furthermore, after more than a hundred years, they were finally able to receive their monetary inheritance from the banks in Switzerland who denied such records for decades; holding and hidden all that were rightfully theirs. They felt absolutely no obligations to rectify past hurts because; their ancestors committed the crimes long ago, like many of us today they felt no obligation to alleviate past injustices. The Christian-Judeo relationship is viewed as a form of affirmative action in this colloquium presented by Father Dubois. He implied: “it is not aversion to difference that requires explanation; for aversion to difference is “the human condition” (Holocaust by Bullets, Colloquia #1). We may be frustrated by the world that surrounds us. We may lament the advances of false ideology. We must be very concerned about past injustices and we have to speak out. The death of millions, the torture and bondage of millions or more and the mind control asserted both in Nazi Germany and Soviet Union is reprehensible to anything human. “We should not be appalled at the animalistic and barbaric acts on one soul against another. Anti-Semitism should not surprise us rather the opening of Christian America to Jews is what should amaze us. Similarly, coerced religious conformity should not leave us groping for understanding, but the forging of religious toleration” (Holocaust by Bullets, colloquia #1).

References http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/sacredheart.edu.1616625798.03190569237The Holocaust by Bullets presenting Father Dubois work and legacy. Colloquia

I am not sure if I can even judge the birth mother because I have not worked in her shoes. I don't think her living her boys in a shoe box was guided by "hatred." May be fear? Especially if she was a young mother. We do not know the circumstances that lead to abandoning those boys. We do not how society views handicap children. She did not harm them. Do you recall the story of Moses who was left at sea by her mother? There are times in our lives, things good or bad work out for the best. I was however touched by the courage of Ms. Kelly who took these boys out of the orphanage and gave them a future. I thank you the taking the time to respond to my post.