Nat Hentoff's new column in the Village Voice addresses indifference to the genocide of Black Afraicans in Darfur in Sudan.

...the World Health Organization, which is striving mightily—with other humanitarian organizations—to save lives in Darfur, says it will run out of money by the end of this month if more funds don't come in from concerned countries. The United States has been the largest donor.

However strongly a future U.N. Security Council resolution may be worded and accepted by Khartoum, Sudan's National Islamic Front government chronically breaks its agreements. The murdering and raping of black Africans in Darfur will continue unless there is massive world pressure that may well have to go beyond the United Nations and indeed create a coalition of nations that will use force to end what the International Crisis Group's John Prendergast accurately calls the "most unspeakable crime in the world."

Hentoff compares Kerry's response to the lack of response from Bush.