My indifferent heart

I read the opinion letter, "What did Thomas say that was incorrect?," and was saddened that someone else shared my frustration with a race of people perceived to cry "foul" too often.

I read the opinion letter, “What did Thomas say that was incorrect?,” and was saddened that someone else shared my frustration with a race of people perceived to cry “foul” too often.

But, my frustration was not with blacks; it was with our brothers and sisters of Jewish ancestry.

At one time, I was frustrated by all the attention given to the Holocaust. I would think, “Guys, you’ve pulled yourselves from the ashes of the Holocaust, get over it.”

Two events shined an uncomfortably hot light on my stupidity. The first was the movie “Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story.” I recall a scene where a couple of soldiers made a bet that if you lined two prisoners up, head to head, a bullet would penetrate both skulls. I was stunned with the brutal nonchalance depicted in that scene. I recognized that this was Hollywood, but I was still profoundly disturbed.

The second event made me red in the face with shame. I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp near Krakow, Poland in 2001. I was a soloist with the Music Ministries Tour of my church. I stood next to furnaces used to reduce our precious brothers and sisters to ashes. We all wept. I understood, then, that we should never forget.

What does this have to do with perceived overuse of the race card? When we wrap ourselves in comfortable indifference, we devalue the plight of a people under siege.

– Marlon Trigg


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