Posted by Ani DeFranco, who is about my age and belongs to the age group broadly known as Generation X, once said, “The best minds of my generation are in jail.”
But if we look at the baby boomers and to a lesser extent their parents’ generation, the corollary would be that some of the best minds of those generations are dead. And not by the slow decay of time but them fools was assassinated.
Sheikh Mujib, who liberated Bangladesh from Pakistan, assassinated.
Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi of India, assassinated.
Anwar Sadat, assassinated.
Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated.
Malcolm X, assassinated.
Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated.
John F. Kennedy, assassinated.
Bobby Kennedy, assassinated.
And what leaders are we left to admire, to look up to, to aspire to become…
Mahmoud Abbas, Binyamin Netanyahu, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Silvio Berlusconi, George W. Bush, Crown Prince Abdullah, Robert Mugabe, Charles Taylor?!
Let me close with a quote from Fight Club (paraphrased), “If our fathers are our models for God then perhaps it’s time to realize that God does not like us.”
