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If you go to Wikipedia and search for “Human Kindness Day”, you won't find an article on it. But I stumbled across it and it is noteworthy because of the sad irony that happened at the event in Washington, D.C. in May 1975. About 125,000 showed up near the Washington Monument for what seems to have been a concert that included a performance by Stevie Wonder, but at the end of the cheerily-named event, some 500 complaints were made about robberies, beatings, and the like that went on there. One man who cut across the area on his way home from work was grabbed from behind and stabbed in the eye, which he would go on to lose.An editorial by Nick Thimmesch, "Getting Clobbered on 'Human Kindness Day'," provides some more details and includes the author's reasonable rant against the growing problem of crime in urban American areas in the 1970s.
I haven?t heard of this event as well. But I am sure that it should be a very meaningful one as it tells you to love each and everyone like your brother and sister, but the sad fact is that when the person got stab in the eye, no one seems to care to help, how ?kind? is that. We should really treat this event seriously rather than just an ordinary rock concert as we really do need a better place to live.
You may have been in the minority, as many other people seem to remember is as being chaotic. Read through the comments of people attending the event:http://thebuskersblog.typepad.com/the_buskers_blog/2005/05/human_kindness_.html
