Saturday, July 27, 2013

"We are killed, we are hunted!", An Albino Voice!

In conjunction to a March’s post Albino Death Sentence, the bloggie found this recent article capturing inhumanity experienced every day by those innocent living with albinism in Africa, especially in Tanzania where the concentration is highest in the continent. Captivating but saddening is how albinism so poorly, unfairly understood and barbarously hunted for their bodily parts and organs to feed the wanton perpetrators mercilessly supply witchdoctors who foolishly elevate superstitions for an utter atrocity of human's values.

The destitution of education in Africa, existing through the lack of an effective government promoting a healthy economy, worsened an already uneducated people in abject poverty; it is this destitution and unfortunate existence bearing and oiling the chains of albinism massacre. Albinism massacre is a broken spot in humanity on a cycle that urgently requires firsthand heeding and beginning with legislation and education.

It was reported a woman hold up her albino baby to a white man and said, "Take it back, where it comes from."

Josephat Torner, suffered the same congenital disorder, fully, selflessly risks his life to reach out to the public, voices the albinism truths, resonates an albino’s rights parallel everyone and fights for a voice for his community; by doing so, bloggie found and shared his plights, and earnestly implore others to amplify albino’s voice with potent effects.

Bloggie, in prayers in faith, wishing Josephat Torner and his family the best'est in life and his dream come true.

From Earl Nurse, CNN
May 17, 2013 -- Updated 1454 GMT (2254 HKT)

“We are killed, we are hunted': Albino activist fights witchcraft murders”

Monday, July 22, 2013

Lima, Peru: Where Pallbearers Are Black

Blogger’s “Pallbearer or Blanket Comforter” may seem to have vilified a presence black, or a future palled in darkness, or disreputation of a pallbearer. It was not jesting but merely metaphorical sense. A bearer of a pall over a casket, occasionally, has a duty to bear the casket too. When a military official a pallbearer for his reposed comrade, he held dignity and respect mighty in his chest for his comrade; and others pallbearer are chosen to represent the once living colors of another now lain beneath the pall, for better for worst......

As macabre a pallbearer as may sound, yet the starkest, SIGHING DARKEST, knowledge of millions of lives destroyed by dictators or terrorism stonewashes a mere macabre term. It is such dictators and terrorism who and that palled darkness. They and others that murdered for wealth and power are the bearer of darkness......
This is not so for he and those fortunate to snuggle under blanket of sufficing comfort, they can choose to preclude consciously, while ugly truths peppered from every direction on every region; and, he and those able to curl up under comfort of warmth, can continue to live their lives hopeful and peaceful as long as resting comfort permitted. Pleasant or ugly truths’ acceptance is every ready when one is happy and comfortable, to live in a pleasant truth; abide he and those under the comforter.......
Intelligence of terrible truths is an easy choice of clicks revealing, not just popping windows of mere images of atrocities, an avalanche of sights and insights to what possible natural calamities and fraying societal fabrics may await all beings and posterity. Comfort conveniently spawned inaction and it is not a matter of true or false. Happiness and peace desperately personalized to evict knowledge of grief and violence. Married with children and unmarried with nieces and nephews, their intent is to provide their families and relations with comfort and peace, shower in joy and happiness......
It is not his intent to scout for sad news, there are just there. He does have a certain degree of interest to read and understand more and new human’s idiosyncrasies. Such as this shocking article, clicking and pouring itself ready for his mind (chuckled chuckled), that he read and learned the oldest human trade, passive slavery.......
Blacks and pallbearers in Lima, Peru, are as indispensable as it is honorable a tradition yet victimizing as a travesty of tradition uniquely customized to Lima's traditions. The article contains comforting light yet the said suggestion pallbearer akin black and pronounced prestige using a black pallbearer, stretching such custom three centuries back during Spain’s colonization, is either appalling or disturbing. The business of funerals in Peru is good for the Afro-Peruvian; but traditionalized them prestigious gestures for funerals of the wealthy, powerful or respected just not a sling too far from slavery. While the reporter of the article wrote positively of the black community, Afro-Peruvian will still have a long road close to equality and just treatment......
"One does not stumble, one does not pain; stumbles harder where pain really breaks." naThan quOtes .....

In this May 13, 2013 photo, Ivan Rivas shaves as he prepares for his work as a pallbearer at a funeral in Lima, Peru. Blacks routinely bear the caskets of presidents, mining magnates and bankers to their tombs in Lima. The peculiar tradition exists neither in provincial Peruvian cities nor in other Latin American countries with significant black populations such as Brazil, Panama and Colombia (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Please Buy My Umbrella?

Light has not beamed on him yet,
Already he has picked himself up,
Selling umbrellas wearing no shoes,
Or he never owed a pair of shoes?
In northern India where thousands perished or missing,
The rain has not gone away,
The poor of poorest surviving has to go on,
"Will someone buy my umbrella?"

By The Atlantic.com
A young Indian boy sells umbrellas as it rains in a market in Mumbai, India, on June 18, 2013.
Please read or view more here. Thank you.

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Mighty Shiva On Guard

He grazes he cannot slight the cyber maze the ever growing pastures of information. He comb those vexed crosshairs disheveled by random pages. He thieves he thought overwhelming and inspiring their viewers those captured instances. He ferrets out only morsels his limited mind to feed his humble blog.

He salutes with great admiration photographers and their work.

He ferreted out, one morsel of this image, that it is necessary to have faith at this merciless travesty of Mother Nature and, especially, for those countries affected or inflicted. Blogger hope this idol statue, considered the Supreme God in Shaivism, will stand unscathed and stay the faith of strength and will in aftermath such destructive currents of nature's travesty. A symbol emanating ever greater presence than the statue itself against the roaring waters.

To the thousands lives perished and still missing, may peace and love have already found and enveloped them, protected them in faith their fate, resting or alive. To the multiple thousands survived, may their cries and grief be met with extraordinary strength and will. Humble blogger found his calling conscience and compassion and shared in their cries and grief. Why not he petition others the same in their prayers or observed vigils for this country of perennial disasters, hampering abject poverty in multitude and for its great devotion of mysterious sacredness for millennia?

By Theatlantic.com

A submerged idol of Hindu Lord Shiva stands in the flooded River Ganges in Rishikesh, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, India, on June 18, 2013. Monsoon torrential rains have cause havoc in northern India leading to flash floods, cloudbursts and landslides as the death toll continues to climb and more than 1,000 pilgrims bound for Himalayan shrines remain stranded.

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