Mia,We feel your urgency concerning Darfur, but we do not feel compelled inside. Because we are not part of it. We are not witness. It is not our own hands chopped off. It is not my children stolen in the night. It is not my neighbor's baby hacked to pieces and thrown on my front lawn. And if it were not for you, I wouldn't even have my shallow understanding, fleeting realization, of what is happening thousands of miles away in Africa. I go about my frivolous day, with my frivouslous thoughts, and my frivolous problems.Hold the mirror up to the world so that people can see the reflection of their turning away.Why are there not more honest images of Darfur? Why is what is happening in Darfur too graphic to post?Show what rape does to a little girls vagina. Show the photos of women with their breasts cut off. Show what soldiers have done to little babies. Tell their stories.Hold the mirror up to the world so the people can see the reflection of their turning away.There is honesty to brutality that people respond to.This will cause controversy, but anything less than controversy is a misrepresentation of what is truely happening. Sex and violence will hold the spotlight of people's attention on Darfur.One quick glance at a photo image can say more than all the books written.Do not trivialize what is happening by editing out the ugly. It is the ugliest of images that carry the most power.The truth is ugly.And powerful.P.S. Could the PETA website have a more honest message without horrific photos of animal cruelty?
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. ~Oscar Wilde~
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde~ My real name is Barbara Helena, but people call me Bobbi. Im an extremely normal girl with extremely abnormal ideas about life. I shower until the hot water runs out, and if I could do anything the rest of my life I would go to South Africa and save lives. I go to school and spend most of my free time studying Politics and Law, because those are the only ways in which the world can be changed. I vote. Even if it has to be for the lesser evil. I am a registered republican but I am actually a libertarian, and I will be voting for Obama in 2008. I don't talk politics with people who don't vote. When I'm not doing all that, I bartend. I guess to date I have worked in about 13 different bars, give or take, but the one I most enjoy is whichever one I am working at during the bike rallys. I like spending time with people, although theres hardly ever any time to spend. I like rock, and country. Some people call me a bitch, I guess they've never had to make it on their own before. If I could afford to trust the world and everyone in it, I would love that.
Dane Cook makes me laugh, and when I think about my dad I cry. My favorite color is brown.
If I could go anywhere right now, I would travel to a village in South America, watch bacci with the locals, drink polar ice, and go fishing.
Wouldn't it be nice if people would pay less attention to myspace and more attention to the janjaweed people terrorizing the Sudanese and abolishing what government they have left? Oh, and if people took their own advice for once..... ..
I dislike the general population. Not for the reasons most people do. Most people dislike the general population because they want to be different. I dislike them because they are all fake or fat. I have no problem with yuppies. One day I will be one. I don't rage against society because everyone else does it for me.
The Farchana Manifesto
http://darfuriwomen.phrblog.org/manifesto/
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