La Kemster

People reckon that I need a political degree in order to go, ‘My school got bombed and I remember it cos I was ten-years-old’. I think if there is an issue of people who, having had first hand experiences, are not being able to recount that - because there is laws or government restrictions or censorship or the removal of an individual story in a political situation - then that’s what I’ll keep saying and sticking up for, cos I think that’s the most dangerous thing. I think removing individual voices and not letting Tamil people just go ‘This happened to me’ is really dangerous. That’s what was happening, all the Tamils were being made to look a certain way, and nobody handed them the microphone to say, ‘This is happening and I don’t like it.’

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M.I.A. (via chumbochay)

Indeed - “I think if there is an issue of people who, having had first hand experiences, are not being able to recount that - because there is laws or government restrictions or censorship or the removal of an individual story in a political situation - then that’s what I’ll keep saying and sticking up for, cos I think that’s the most dangerous thing.”

#oppressiononthemind

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