What is that saying again darlings? That a photo speaks a thousand words. Well, I’m not a photographer. Nor am I a photo journalist, don’t worry about my taking photo journalism during teenage course work at the Mighty if a little rusty University of Benin.
But what I am I will give on to you and it will create a photo of this very incredible terms ”racism and prejudice” that many people twist round their tongues but do not seem to know what it means or really looks like. I am a writer and my job is to create pictures from words….for you.
I am also not a social advocate. So please let no one tie me in that loop. My religious beliefs heavily convince me that all the advocacy in the world will not bring about social justice so I don’t bother to clamber unto that mentally frustrating social ladder. And opps thank goodness that that is the case because the helplessness is something that would be crippling.
What I can do however, while waiting for Gods fiery angels to end this fiery world and the fiery evil clowns living in it is to create a picture of what certain social phenomena is, so at the very least you will know when it happens to you so you don’t gaslight yourself, and if there happens to be a human judge with a teeny tiny bit of empathy, they may be moved to shift the fabric of social nonsense a little bit better. Ultimately, I do this for myself, to process these events as they occur, to help me heal and to help any other who needs that space, to also heal.
Feel free to send me your photos of racism colours in racy words, packed with meanings.
What are healing from darlings. It isn’t as simplistic prejudice. What happens next is that prejudice almost always comes from people with narcissistic personalities. So as someone who has been working in mental health, I will not only pain this picture from the social angles, I will take you all into the disordered personalities, that would dare to treat a human poorly, on the basis on their very identity. Let’s do this friends.
A picture of racism is a professor singling you out on the basis of your skin to in ways so subtle that your other classmates don’t realize that the game is on and you’re being flogged for looking like you do.
A picture of racism is you watching your professors eyes dilate and his lips salivate to give your country names that deviate so far from the values you know you were raised around and raised TO RESPECT. A picture of racism is hearing your Scottish professor accuse all of your country men of chopping up people bigtime, and duping people bigtime based on words from his own conditioned lenses when he should be the very one who as an anthropologist is conditioned to see people in different lenses and not through stereotypes. I wonder what all my country men would think if they hear this-that they chop people big time. It sounds so painful and funny you actually want to cry and laugh.
A picture of Prejudice is someone seeing you for the first time and then spitting hard words to your face to tell you that you must have it easy simply because you are pretty. What then do we call this picture, a pretty prejudice or a person prejudice?
A picture of racism is the man at the store asking for your Identity card while all your white friends were already going out unchecked and then he rejects the ID from your country but you give him your passport and after checking the bio-data page he just has to oh he just cannot resist flipping inside the passport to where your visa is just to make sure you are not in the land errrm ..illegally. Oh so funny and painful that the emotions leave you confused about what you should feel in the ocean it dumps you in.
Dear ones, what photo of prejudice did you experience today or this week? Give me a shout out in the comment and I promise to post it on the blog. Till next week’s update’s …Namaste.
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