ERIC GARNER : I CANT BREATHE... Where we must deal with reality, no longer symbols Such a shame... So it seems that white policemen are, by definition, innocent when they kill a black men. He said it 11 times... I cant breath... before dying, choked by an innocent. This is the ugly truth of an outrageous judiciary system. We were told Barack Obamas election, the first African-American President, was the symbol of change. Indeed, it was but a symbol... as everything related to his presidency : symbols, words, hopes and no real changes. In racism as much as in politics... Eight years of symbols and words... nothing more, if not worst. One year ago, Nelson Mandela passed away. His main message was: whatever our skin color, whatever our origin or our religion, we are all equal. He paid the price as a matter of fact. And now, they want to make him a symbol. If we want to make this symbol a model, and his resistance our resistance, we need to stand up. Ready to pay the price as well. Life must go on, they say, yet not as a show of symbols, but as a struggle for dignity and change. Indeed, the struggle agains racism is far from over. In the US streets, this is the message we hear, this is the message we support. Beyond instrumentalized symbols, deceitful hopes.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:18:15 +0000
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