As Joe requested...
Here is what I would tell my children about the Hutus and Tutsis...
About 600 years ago two groups in Africa called the Hutus and the Tutsis started fighting over land and over who's groups was doing thing the "right" way. They couldn't agree and learn to live well next to each other.
There have been some years where they all fight a lot of years and years and have big wars. Sometimes one group wins and rules over the other group for a while. Now, in modern times, the Hutus live in Rawanda and the Burundi live in Tutsis and they are still fighting.
Almost everyone else in the world wants them to stop fighting and to share land and live next to one another. But, it's hard to make people change when they are sure what they are doing is right. So, we just have to keep telling them that peace is better and hope they listen one day.
i think the word "Tutsis" would remind my son of tootsie rolls and he would be completely preoccupied with how he was going to get one.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you are projecting? Could that be your own thought process? Either way, he's clearly destined for great work in the global peace process.
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