–New York, New York, USA–
I made the essential trip on the tourist guidebook to Johannesburg’s famous Apartheid Museum. Like with all mass human rights abuses and crimes against humanity, South Africa’s apartheid era injustices were permanently documented in exhibition so as to never forget and thus never repeat such gross offenses in the future. I couldn’t help but think of how the very hateful and racist behavior that the museum attempts to prevent has become more and more exposed and has accelerated, even in the form of physical violence, in recent times in the country I claim as home. How is it possible to feel hate towards another person because of their skin color, religious beliefs or any other form of identity? How do we work on building healthy race relations in a country so clearly divided? Where do we begin? Lets come together. Let’s talk. Let’s find solutions.
peace, unpacked 