And you don’t have to be willing to kill or die. Are you willing to work? Are you willing to organise, research, help people? Are you willing to listen to Yorubas, or Igbos, or Hausas? To be in community with queers? To stand side by side with women? With Muslims and Christians?
Victor Wembanyama’s full comments today on the shooting of another civilian by federal agents in Minneapolis:
“PR has tried, but I'm not going to sit here and give some politcally correct [answer]. Every day I see the news and I'm horrified. I think it's crazy that some people might make it seem like or make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable. I read the news and sometimes I'm asking very deep questions about my own life. I'm concious also saying everything that's on my mind will have a cost that's too great for me right now, so I'd rather not get into too many details. It's terrible. I know I'm a foreigner, but I live in this counrtry and I am concerned.”
(Questions via @tom_orsborn, @mikefinger, video via @HectorLedesmaTV)
We all need to get real about the reality that the government can execute you in cold blood in the streets, immediately lie about it and media will report it as truth.
There are no laws. There are no rules. This is the new reality. Act and prepare accordingly.
International law never died. It was a stillborn at its birth. International law has never protected the colonized, the exploited, or beaten back colonizers. It just added formality & etiquette to imperialistic, capitalistic plundering that has dominated this world for centuries.