Yes, black husbands and fathers are being murdered by the hundreds of thousands and their wives and children sold into slavery, and no one seems to notice, or care.

Let a professional football team fire a black coach due to a losing season and Jesse Jackson is "Johnny on the spot" to call the owners racists and bigots. Let a Confederate flag fly atop a state capitol and the NAACP will rally over 40,000 people in a massive demonstration. Let hundreds of thousands of black people be slaughtered and sold into slavery, however, and these self-proclaimed spokesmen for the downtrodden sit strangely silent. Where is their outrage?

The tragedy I am talking about is taking place in the Sudan. The militant Muslim government in Khartoun is sponsoring a war against Sudanese Christians in Southern Sudan that rivals any genocide in history. Among a population of just over 6 million inhabitants, more than 600,000 people have been killed and some 5 million people are without homes.

According to the Daily Mail & Guardian from Johannesburg, South Africa, "The slave raiders prefer women and boys. In order to catch them, they kill the men and burn down their villages. When the women and children run into the bush, they are chased and captured. They are made to carry the "spoils" of the raid, usually sacks of grain, to the north. They are then sold to wealthy Arab families.

"Arab families with large farms and plantations in the Arab areas immediately to the north of Southern Sudan may buy between 50 and 100 slaves. Families buy women to be used as "concubines" who perform farm and household tasks in addition to providing sexual services. If the women are young enough, they are genitally mutilated as soon as they reach puberty, so as to make them acceptable to their Arab masters."

Where is the outrage of the American press? Where is the holy indignation of the combined civil rights leadership in this country? Where is Bill Clinton's call for military intervention due to a "moral imperative" for swift and decisive action? Where is the National Council of Churches?  They are nowhere to be found.

There are several reasons for this apathy. 

One, the victims are Christians  As we have seen in our own country, there is a double standard when it comes to concern for victims. If the victims happen to be Christians, there is little interest from among the liberal establishment.

Two, the murderers are black Muslims. To the liberal mind, disparaging comments made by a white baseball player against homosexuals is worse than murder committed by black Muslims, even if the victims are also black people.

Three, there is no left-wing political agenda that can be advanced by calling attention to these atrocities. There is no wealthy business that money can be extorted from, no state or local government that can be bullied into submission by Mr. Jackson and his co-conspirators in the mainstream press. There are only tens of thousands of helpless, innocent people that are being murdered, raped, tortured and sold into slavery.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Why should I expect that people who don't care that millions of innocent, unborn babies are being slaughtered in their own country should care that hundreds of thousands of innocent people are being slaughtered in another country?

When you go to bed tonight, say a prayer for the suffering souls in the Sudan. Say a prayer for our nation, too. The same apathy that allows these poor people to perish is also killing the conscience of America.