Rob and I just spent most of the month of August, 2017 in Africa...5 countries (Tanzania, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa), 13 flights, 6 game reserves/parks. It was a “trip of a lifetime” and I found a great love for the African people. Around the time that racial craziness was happening in Charlottesville, NC, we visited the Genocide Museum in Rwanda. Thousands of people were killed by friends and neighbors 23 years ago. The museum is dedicated to the memory of those killed and the education about how and why genocide starts. Genocide begins when people start identifying other people only by specific groupings (race, religion, culture, sex, etc.). Those seeking political power identify one group as “Bad” and works to make them a common enemy. This common enemy creates an allegiance to a political leader. In the museum they pay homage to other instances of genocide such as Nazi Germany. A direct quote in the museum from Hitler that startled me
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