"He refused to turn aside in the face of injustice and inhumanity even from those with the power and responsibility to provide protection, and he is now in mortal danger".
There will be another video to shock us and fulfil our collective voyeuristic instincts – maybe even, as happened on Wednesday in Virginia, a first-person documentation of another person's brutality and inhumanity, filmed from the only end of a gun on which we're supposed to want to stand.
And we are all suffering now, suffering from our silence, suffering from denial, suffering from inhumanity because thirty years later every time Dreamgirls is performed or the film is shown, The Dreams, (young women) represent one of the fastest growing groups of people in America to become infected with HIV, women, especially women of color.
Far from endorsing the view that such collective inhumanities spring from "human depravity", we shared Diderot's belief that war and social violence are not generic to humanity.
Two words aimed at a white minority who had profited from legislating your inhumanity, creating economic injustice from that legislation and then demanding it be maintained even as Soweto babies bled and died fighting to breathe legislated freedom.
Cameron's lack of compassion and stark inhumanity was obvious from the outset.
Some story with which to educate Trevor, to reaffirm her belief in the humanity that, from inhumanity, forms.
"Starved, shabby, agitated... they were the leaders in the panicked flight from inhumanity which was to spread over the whole earth.
And to this day, there are voices on America's political right that remain profoundly sceptical about the idea of costly pledges to wage wars in the name of protecting people from inhumanity.Barack Obama's administration, with its internationalist instincts, is clearly a lot more comfortable with notions like R2P.
Sometimes those beasts descend all at once, as they did with the enslavement of Africans, and the brutality and inhumanity is unmistakeable from the start.
