
A friendly reminder from one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to (Roger Waters: Us+Them Tour).
No one should tell you what to do, what to wear and god forbids NO ONE should tell you it’s not acceptable to be a man/woman, queer, non-white, Muslim, Hebrew… We’re all red and bloody underneath our skin, we’re all human.
Be you. Be human. Stay alive.
I think it’s more about not falling into a certain propaganda. Like, not really about you being able to be who you want, but you resisting this nationalist rising political agenda that tricks people into using minorities as scapegoats. Migrants, Kurds, Latinos, Palestinians, African Migrants etc etc. We have to resist that racist agenda with all our strength. “Stay human” was activist Vittorio Arrigoni’s signature, that how he used to end all his articles and reports. He was killed in Gaza in 2011, and Roger contributed to a tribute video in his memory some time ago. Staying human in this case is not really about being yourself and staying alive and live your life (well, that’s pretty important too, and probably part of the message in a way) but accepting others for being themselves, and for staying alive and for living their life and that goes beyond borders, nationalisms, skin colors, sexualities, religions … walls.
I think it’s more about not falling into a certain propaganda. Like, not really about you being able to be who you want,...