I hope somebody got reprimanded over this - talk about sloppy.  It did 
make me laugh though, in an "isn't this pathetic" kind of way.

It's funny you sent this now because I am in the middle of a book 
called "The Holocaust in American Life" which discusses the ways in 
which the Holocaust has become very important to us, though it happened 
thousands of miles away.  The author is not so much critiquing American 
interest in injustice as he is saying that basically, it's easier to 
confront the Nazi evil, rather than our own.  In other words, we have 
not given anything like the attention to slavery and racial oppression 
that would be needed to really make things right for African-Americans, 
in this author's view, yet we talk about the Holocaust a lot and we 
compare many current events to it.

I don't agree with everything he says.  He certainly is provocative.  
But he's got a point when he questions the value of Holocaust 
education.  It is assumed in many places that teaching the Holocaust 
makes Americans better people.  He wonders about this, given that many 
American junior high school kids cannot place WW2 in the correct 
half-century.

!!

My father is very interested in history and politics and all my life, I 
have heard rants about how ignorant most Americans are of both, which 
is true.  When I was a child, his attitude irritated me greatly.  Now I 
see the point in what he says.  He was chronically angry about it which 
is off-putting, but it does cause anger to value something highly that 
is not taken seriously by most people in this country.

Personally, I think the History Channel and Wikipedia are great 
resources.

Mary Katherine

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Sent: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 4:21 AM
Subject: Re: This Makes Me Want to Hang My Head in Shame ....

    The link in Kat's message was cut in half, cut and paste both lines 
into your browser, I managed to get to the page doing that. 
 
  It's a mindboggling link, for sure. Even this Kiwi/Aussie could see 
what was wrong there.  
 Rayna 
 
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