lucky white leg

Jun 09, 2008 23:28

Albinos, Long Shunned, Face Threat in Tanzania

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/world/africa/08albino.html?bl&ex=1213070400&en=751c11f3322c497f&ei=5087%0A

"Police officials say life is the worst for Albinos in rural areas with less hospitals and people tend to be more superstitious"

A belief system in a culture that murders for multiplicity occurring in the distributive attributes gained from dismantling a skin that ironically is considered lucky(?) even though it's hunt avails to it's death. It is a form of racism to be targeted a white skinned, black person by his/her own people. I would compare to the crusades, but the killing was intended to end life with its possible belief end-trails. to bad for them, martyrdom turned out to be a successful icon to inspire the next generation. But this is actually making a body a rabbit's foot souvenir. This is part of what i was talking about to be a tourist of your own body, dislocated from the idea of physicality in the ideas of identity.

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