The video of the abducted Nigerian girls sent a shudder down
my spine. Because I believed what I was taught in Sunday school about Jesus
loving all the children, and because for 30 years Black students represented
40% of the students in my classes, I was programmed to respond. They were my
children. They were our children.
The mother of Abubaker Shekau, the leader of Boko Harum, believes
her son is insane. Shekau's Islamic insurgency kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in
April. He took them from a boarding school in northern Nigeria. He is a
megalomaniac who loves to be in the news.
Because these girls have been captured by a psycho, there is
no way to tell what might end up happening to them. The Nigerian government
seems to be doing nothing to rescue them. I'm sure the best of us believe these
are our daughters. If it takes an international effort to bring them home
safely, then it should be done. This is just not Nigeria's problem, it is a problem
for all of us.
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