Reminder that Mao never brushed his teeth instead he would just swish and rinse with green tea every now and then
By the time of his death, his teeth were almost completely brown, and his gums were constantly bloody and swollen with pus
This is what Fanon called the 'pitfalls of national consciousness.' You are taking Lumumba—a revolutionary, anti-colonial, materialist fighter—and reducing him to a religious prop. They cannot celebrate his actual politics because those politics threaten the order they serve.