Watched Cry Freedom again yesterday. I had not seen it since I was a child and its relevance to my trip hit me right in the heart. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Cry Freedom is a true story about Bantu Stephen Biko (played by hot, hot Denzel Washington) who was a South African organizer and activist who espoused Black Consciousness as a method for combating apartheid. For his political activities he was tapped, followed, harassed, banned and finally murdered in police custody.
The brutality of such regimes astounds me. How can we, as human beings, dehumanize one another to the level of such ghastly cruelty? Does it happen when we become so dogmatic in our beliefs that we are blinded from seeing anothers very humanity? Where can we even begin to have respect for varying worldviews while prioritizing global COMMUNITY!! Will "scarcity", politics and economics always determine the quality of our relationships?
In the movie Stephen Biko is termed a terrorist, Nelson Mandela was also termed thusly, which makes me question, who are terrorists? Is this term relative? Nebulus? Is it another justifying quanitfier? Was MLK a terrorist? Were the founding fathers terrorists? Who will be our future terrorists?
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