Freedom Calls going beyond Peace
If the freedom of others is threatening you, then guess what? If the freedom of others is threatening you? Who are you? What’s peace got to do with it then?
When someone touches my son. I slap him in the face, right at the metro station. It already happened on the way to school.
I did that in a millisecond and the guy who wastaller than me BUT a teenager will probably never do that again and none of his friends. He will tell them about the crazy mum, for sure. I don’t have time to talk it out and he wouldn’t listen.
This is my culture and I am arrogant about it if he gets it or not. I am not from here. He is not from here. We both know that. That’s enough to know about our situation.
Another deep look into each others eyes both hoping we will never meet again. I get that.
I would want to do everything to protect my child. I get that . Up to this point I can follow. Everyone has to the right to defend themselves, no matter who you are.. .. And also wanting to make sure that nothing will follow.
Now as I live in Berlin in the state of Germany. When I call the police on this boy who touched my son, they will go after him and his whole family. He will be filed. The school as well as the state, the police and the office of foreign affairs will have an eye on them because he is one of “those kids” of “those ethnic groups” of “those families” and “clans.” That would be a whole other story.
Now what is the peaceful decent mother option?
Ignoring that and pretending I have a right as a (ci)vilian in a democratic state to call the police on this boy to feel safe would be an option. Even for me as a black woman the white supremacist patriarchial empire allows me to execute structural racism and discrimination on this boy because he is not white. I just need to know: Is this that what is caledl security and peace? Is that my peace?
No I would be a complicit in a power game that isn’t mine. No peace for me. This is colonial white patriarchial supremacy power. I could take revenge. I could be superior, at least for a moment, I could get the idea I protected my son and show him how this goes and I can also protect other kids from him and his family. No one could blame me for this in the Gameworld that is played out here. This is ABC, 1,2,3 for our kids.
So we better be fearful, that make us careful what we are doing here. They are watching us. Our kids see what’s going on maybe in the first time that ne next generation is better informed, less taboos, bigger bubbles.
And they know about bullying, power games, who is closest to the people in power and such very well. And they know who are the buliies and why.
Guess what, our kids know why other kids do evil. They don’t waste time contemplating about it. They know because they know hatred and wanting to take revenge. They have felt it, all the kids, the white, the black the children of first nations ,the people of Color. All kids know what is evil. We can’t fool anyone anymore from here.
I shouldn’t slap the boy, he shouldn’t have slapped my son. There shouldn’t be violence at the metro station. And there should be a peaceful solution. I should be talking to the teacher in school about it and on and on doesn’t help if we admit that this is a structral sytematic problem, which is actually not a problem, because the system is working well. It’s made to work that way.
And that is what makes me an angry black mum, not a good mum or a bad mum but a constantly angry black mum. So who are you to claim peace here or anywhere ? Who am I I to claim peace? I claim my liberation from believing the story that anyone will come and fix it for me.
Our kids see how each and everyone of us “manages” the men made catastrophe we are experiencing right now . We matter right now. Everyone matters right now. Isn’t that what we have been claiming all the time. If you wonder why there are so many kids on the streets of Berlin. Do you really wonder why btw? This is our one and only moment .
To get things done here. In the way we live, gobally, as responsible adult people in a resonsible adult culture. Where “everyone has a right to defend themselves” doesn’t need to be said over and over again because we respect each other as human beings.
This can only happen if we admit FOR ALL OUR CHILDREN that we don’t. We all don’t admit that this men made catastrophe in the middle east is our story and our people. All of them. Black people who didn’t get this structural racism intercsectional black feminist perspective on things have created places like Sierra Leone, Liberia and Enclaves like Shashemene in Ethiopia our holy land, surrounded by bombfires. Is that what liberation and peace looks like? Did we learn the lesson? Fuck your peace at this point also.
Because we are not in peace nowhere. So get your ass involved here.
No matter what you are or where you are. This is about all in all and everything right now. What if at this point all people on the planet really get what a world without war and genocide could look like. What if there is a world without racism possible because everyone really get that every life and everybody matters only if every life and every body matters enough to work through it.
We have to start somewhere. First of all to really admit that in the culture we are currently living we are NOT the same, it’s NOT equal and it’s fucking unfair. For fucking too long. That long that people have stored all their shit for so long that their call for freedom is so horrific and the answer will be a total destruction.
How can we as educated, enlightend people have the Audacity to claim peace for ourselves or otherwise have the right to destroy the other?
What if this rule has become obsolete now, for us who call Ignorance peace and Privilege Freedom. What if there is no one left to be protected from this evel because everybody is dead? Or is that the peace we are talking about? What if this is the time for something else?
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