Friday, March 07, 2008
The images of my childhood.
It's hard to get away from the images of your childhood, the six O'Clock news always had this man shouting over everyone else, in my head he was the bogeyman, the personification of evil, I used to think he would eat children alive, only catholic children of course, but he still would.
He was indirectly (and boy did he know it) responsible for the prolonging of inequality in the north for the last forty years, he was a fundie who earnestly believed in the superiority of the protestant people, he fought to preserve but ultimately only succeeded in prolonging the ethos of apartheid and supremacy that had existed for the previous centuries.
In his period of obstruction and "never never never", 3000 people died, sometimes we should trust our childhood intuitions.
Evil is Evil, but is most dangerous in the mask of righteousness.
Shame on those who now fawn over him and his legacy.