Machete Season
I bought the book that is mentioned below on my lunch break today, after reading about another book called “Machete Season” that has just been published, on the same topic. I really don’t want to read this book. But I think I need to read it, I need to know and understand what happened. Because if I am not going to succumb to the American way of averting our eyes from the ugliness, then I guess I have to read things that make me sick and sad and horrified.
I don’t know yet if I am going to read Machete Season or not. That may be too much, and in some ways seems almost to be glorifying these people, and what they did? Maybe “glorifying” is too strong a word, but giving them a voice, does that humanize them and help us understand, or does it just take away some of the stigma that these “people” should rightly be subject to? I don’t know. Will post updates as I read. If I can read it. I think this book may also detail the events on which “Hotel Rwanda” was based. So I may rent that and watch it too.
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