GENETIC MANIPULATION AND THE POPULATION'S FATE
...nt. “Ballad of Birmingham” starts off about a young African American girl asking her mother if she could walk in the streets of Birmingham to join the March For Freedom. The mother, still believing that there is a safe place from racial hatred tells her daughter she is not allowed to go out into the streets and march because it is unsafe. The mother wants to protect he daughter from the violence of the world and the violence of the streets, so suggests to her daughter to go to church in stead and sing in the children’s choir. She sends her daughter off to church knowing that she will be safe in this sacred place. Moments later the mother hears an explosion. Nervously racing down the streets of Birmingham calling out her child’s name only to find out the violence has occurred in the one place she the was safe. The church she sent her daughter too was blown up into pieces. Scared to death, the mother searches through the broken glass and brick finding nothing more than her baby girls’ shoes. The mother naďve faith in the limits of hatred and violence has been destroyed. “Ballad of Birmingham” provides a graphic model of communal grief over this bombing and other acts of racism terrorism. Dozens of ...