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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
But, my frustration was not with blacks; it was with our brothers and sisters of Jewish ancestry.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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