Kenyan Maasai give precious cattle to mark Sept 11 “Arrayed in red robes and bead jewellery, impoverished Kenyan Maasai tribespeople gave a U.S. official their most precious possession — cattle — on Sunday to show sympathy for the bereaved of September 11.
He said his tribespeople had been moved to hear his account of the day more than 3,000 people were killed in attacks by hijackers of four passenger airplanes in New York, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon outside Washington.”
This, to me, was a truely beautiful and wonderful gesture, marred by one thing:
“Brencick said the embassy would find it difficult to ship the cattle to the United States and had decided to sell the animals to raise funds to buy beadwork made in the village for display at a September 11 memorial in New York.”
I would think that the US should have brought the animals here… no matter what the cost or, the complications involved. They should have been placed in a place of honor here. It shows how we regard the acts of others. They use cattle much as the indians used buffalo. What did we do to the buffalo? History tells us. As for what we do to cattle, head over the McDonalds… (link via Metafilter, attutude adjustment via Jeff Pfund).