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i just had one of the most memorable and amazing weekends of my life. i have never laughed so much, with such good friends, in a world completely our own inpenetrable by any distant worries or nagging thoughts in so long.
as soon as i turned on the abc news this evening i have only the memory of that feeling, because now i feel heavy and sick with disgust at the capacity of the human race.
i don't know why the news report on the murder of the black husband-to-be disturbed me more than most stories i've heard this year, but maybe my lingering elation from the weekend let the fucking repulsion of racial discrimination (where we should've learnt our fucking lesson by now) hit me harder than usual. or maybe just having found my humanity again made me sit on my lounge with my mouth open at others lack of it.
i wonder if anything will happen to that american cop who shot a group of black men, killing the finance at his bux night and injuring others (one man riddled with eleven fucking bullets ??). i wonder whether there will be any repercussions. i wonder what would've happened if if had been a black cop shooting a white man.
as lily said this weekend, we need a fucking revolution.
we need a(nother) movement to make them listen.
if that murder of an innocent civilian, drvien by a prgrammed racist instinct to the frail threat of trouble ['police reportedly suspected the man to be holding a gun. No weapons were found.' ] on the streets of a country which masquerades itself as a fucking democracy doesn't show how little we've come & how fucking angry we are, & deserve to be,
what will?
as soon as i turned on the abc news this evening i have only the memory of that feeling, because now i feel heavy and sick with disgust at the capacity of the human race.
i don't know why the news report on the murder of the black husband-to-be disturbed me more than most stories i've heard this year, but maybe my lingering elation from the weekend let the fucking repulsion of racial discrimination (where we should've learnt our fucking lesson by now) hit me harder than usual. or maybe just having found my humanity again made me sit on my lounge with my mouth open at others lack of it.
i wonder if anything will happen to that american cop who shot a group of black men, killing the finance at his bux night and injuring others (one man riddled with eleven fucking bullets ??). i wonder whether there will be any repercussions. i wonder what would've happened if if had been a black cop shooting a white man.
as lily said this weekend, we need a fucking revolution.
we need a(nother) movement to make them listen.
if that murder of an innocent civilian, drvien by a prgrammed racist instinct to the frail threat of trouble ['police reportedly suspected the man to be holding a gun. No weapons were found.' ] on the streets of a country which masquerades itself as a fucking democracy doesn't show how little we've come & how fucking angry we are, & deserve to be,
what will?