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Desert Flower; FGM-Female Genital Mutilation, Unite for Children

Love hurt three times. Once when you are cut. Once when you marry.  Once when you give birth African Proverb. "Desert Flower"  Below is an eyewitness account of what is done to all Somali girls because men still refuse marriage with an uninfibulated , or " open ," bride. And without marriage, there is no future for a girl:            Instruments used for the FMG "With the Somalis, the circumcision of girls occurs in the home among women's relatives and neighbors. The grandmother or an older woman officiates. On each occasion, usually, only one little girl or, at times, two sisters are infibulated, but all girls, without exception, must undergo this mutilation as it is required for marriage. The operation itself is not accompanied by any ceremony or ritual. The child, completely naked, is made to sit on a low stool. Several women take hold of her and open her legs ...
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20st Century ~ Century of Violence.~

In ancient times during war, soldiers fought on the battlefield corp, face-to-face with the enemy. It was brutal, horrific, and bloody.  War was fought over reasons as ancient as man and still true today; Wealth and Power. A politician once said,  "The United States has no friend, only interest."   It is valid for all countries and men. The mass killing also increased with great leaps forward in technology and science. Unless you are Mother Theresa, Man's agenda is always more than just philanthropic.  Genocide: among other things, the killing of people by  a government because of their indelible group membership  (race, ethnicity, religion, language).  Politicide: the murder of any person or people by a  government because of their politics or for political purposes. Mass Murder: the indiscriminate killing of any person or people by  a government. Democide: The murder of any person or people by  a government, including genocide, p...
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Martin Luther King and equal rights, what have we done since?

Would you have the courage to enter a segregated dinner, sit at the counter, and order? Would you volunteer to be a freedom rider and travel to the South to test the new laws and face angry mobs? Would you march and be ready to die facing an open bigot City Hall and police department? What have we done with the rights handed to us? Would you die for your beliefs like 37 -years-old NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers , murdered outside his Mississippi home, or like the 3 young students ( James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21; and Michael Schwerner , 24 ) who had been working to register black voters in Mississippi . We are under the impression that slavery and segregation have been abolished.  Is it? Today's Urban Cities are the new social and economic face of segregation. It is another way to separate those who have from those who have not. The new slavery is the hopelessness of the urban youth, the separation between poor urban public education and everywhere else.  What...
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