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The man said, “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.  Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.  Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

I have been trying to digest this massacre in contrast to the events in Paris in context to my past writing on the Meme and Dr. King’s birthday today. (1/15).

Two thousand humans in Nigeria, a dozen in Paris, terrorism, murder, shameless evil and disparate global reaction; why racism, classism, money, The Meme.  Boko Haram indiscrimatly razed human flesh like a slaughter house and over three thousand structures.  These are probably low estimates.

Boko Haram wants an Islamic state forbidding Western society.  Assholes in Paris killed cartoonists for mocking the sacrosanct.  World leaders marched with almost four million people in the streets of France.  This was a multi-cultural solidarity, but it was primarily a white-washed solidarity as Europe risks the scent of Nazism rising to persecute Muslims in a twist of what America and Israel do to the state of Palestine in modern Germany and France.  Traditional racially and predominate Christian homogeneous European nations are having their social and political systems rattled by the nature of diverse influx from immigrants shifting the preponderance of that homogeny majority.  The Arab Spring from Tunisians sailing into Italy like Cubans into Florida to the spectrum of Syrians flooding Turkey at the root is that people want what they think they are comfortable and that is a lack of change and a preservation of power consolidated into people who look and pray like they do.  

The coverage, the response, of the divergent values the Meme places on a human life is so blatantly evident if the juxtaposition of fields of dead black bodies and an office of a few white ones getting canonized treatment with a t-shirt campaign, which although important, feels sadly just like another thing white people have stolen from black people at the moment.  Michael Brown and Eric Garner were murdered by police, whether that is a form of terrorism that is a debate to be had, but if we want a world where we really believe all lives matter, that black lives matter on equal footing, then disparate global reactions to these two events cannot be inversed to the heinousness of each event. 

The Meme says what happens in Paris could touch white people, could touch the safe European homes the Clash once sang, commerce could be affected.  The Meme cannot have that.  The Meme is pro-religion but the dominate religion in that country and segregates different rules in the superfluous-human natural resource extraction countries the Meme uses to maintain global dominance.  Nigeria is treated as a natural resource depository by the Meme, so the lives of the two thousand count less than the twelve by the Meme.  It’s the program, the globe is not even shocked.  It’s crazy and sad, but it’s not surprising. 

Fundamentalism will cause our extinction if left unchecked.  Any being that thinks a book or a badge gives him or her a carte blanche for violence is our extinction staring us in the face of our group failure of empathy.  Martin Luther King’s birthday was today.  (1/15)  I wonder what he would say.  Would he would tell us to breathe, to march, to sing?  Would he look at Congress and the privilege so many white citizens of this world wear like armor immune to the realities that he gave his life to foster empathy and love in recognition of what humanity could be.  We are still so much a work in progress.  Events like this just so how far we still have to go.