Alas, it is a persistent folly: when eventually the Emperor was deposed for good, his reign was followed by a resurgence in the ugly shape of fatasha: soldiers of the Derg prowled and pounced, arresting, interrogating and executing anyone who was thought to be insufficiently fervent in support of the new order. Since the World Trade Center fell, these same vices have come to the so-very-modern worlds of London and Washington. How many harmless young black men have been injured or killed in modern cities in white countries this year, for the crime of exciting someone else’s racism? Too many, and it must end.