> Darfur can be seen as but the latest of a long string of genocides dating back to 1915. Power notes that in every instance America and the rest of the world l

> Darfur can be seen as but the latest of a long string of genocides dating back to 1915. Power notes that in every instance America and the rest of the world looked away. Darfur is mostly ignored by Americans for the same reason that the overwhelming majority of charity donations are given to local organizations and not global ones. Your efforts to help local causes can be seen by you, and sometimes very quickly (e.g. soup kitchens). Not so for catastrophes that are thousands of miles away both physically and culturally.