Tumbling Like Alice

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If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

Nelson Mandela on the US invasion of Iraq

This is the Mandela that I mourn not the white-washed, sanitized version of a revolutionary figure that aligned with Communists, was part of a group branded as terrorists by Reagan, who continued to voice his opposition to Israel’s apartheid regime and illegal occupation of the West Bank and used armed resistance to fight apartheid in South Africa.

The way white people are exalting him across the political spectrum globally based on his national reconciliation work in South Africa post-apartheid (which did have major pitfalls for non-whites in particular) and erasing his revolutionary past and fight for equality across the globe shows just how ignorant of history they are and how incredibly myopic they are too.

White people are doing to Mandela what they’ve already done to Martin Luther King, Jr., and it makes me sick. If I see one more racist white liberal lionizing Mandela in a way that erases his revolutionary past so their facebook status about his death can serve as their “feel-good” justification of the day for their “liberalism,” I’m going to be sick.  And don’t even get me started on the white American conservatives who are now lauding him even as Reagan demonized the ANC and Dick Cheney voted against a resolution that would have urged the South African apartheid government to remove Mandela from prison. 

Don’t sanitize Mandela for your white comfort. He’s a hero in many regards, but maybe not for the reasons you might think based on the whitewashing he’s receiving in the media to hollow him out and make him into a puppet figure for racist white liberals and conservatives alike, just like MLK. 

R.I.P.

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groudon

i like this but i don’t fully understand it…

aunteeblazer

whoa

sweet-deer

you don’t understand how sad this is. each adult is a cross, and each child has been crucified by said cross. 

  • the priest (i assume he’s a priest, correct me if i’m wrong) killed the little boy in one way or another, probably rape, which is common among corrupted clergy men. 
  • the tourist comes to an overcrowded, poverty stricken country, taking up any and all resources that could have gone to the little native girl
  • the soldier comes to fight for his country, but ends up killing the innocent girl, probably in her village.
  • the little boy dies under the doctor’s knife
  • the man kills the little girl in a school shooting (represented with the uniform)
  • the “fat” kid is killed by obesity caused by a fast food epidemic in america, most commonly mcdonald’s, shown by ronald mcdonald himself. 

this is /haunting/ to look at. children can die at anyone’s hand. even the “heros”

brownglucose

Ehhhh the doctor-patient child doesn’t seem to fit with this overarching theme to me. Like, any time any person goes under the knife they are put at risk. These other children represented, seem like true victims. Maybe I’m just not understanding.

yesidolikecoatsbigtime

The first three were all references to sexual abuse, at least I assumed. The priest molests the boys, the white tourist gets a child prostitute in a developing nation, and the soldier assaults a young muslim girl. I don’t really get the doctor one, and definitely don’t think it fits. The Sandy Hook reference is obvious in the next one. And I’m finding the McDonald’s one a bit troubling too. I mean, conflating being overweight with being murdered or sexually assaulted is pretty fucked up.

Over all though, definitely a heart stopping piece. That second one hit me hard. I rarely think about the epidemic of American tourists getting child prostitutes or sex slavery in general, but it’s reaaaaally more common than most would think.