World Aids Day
Published by deviousdiva December 1st, 2006 in Women.Last year Sokari at Black Looks interviewed Rose about her experience of living with HIV. A year later on World Aids Day
Rose has chosen to leave a comment revealing her true self and revealing the name of the person from who she contracted HIV, something she has only ever done to one person. She explains why she has chosen to do this at this time and what it means to her to make these revelations
Read the comment here and plan to post something on your own blog about Aids and HIV.
Also, spend at least five minutes today to take action
Technorati Tags: activism, aids, women, World Aids Day
DD, I might approve you as a person more than the most of your detractors, but sometimes you make me wonder whether you leftist folks have any thoughts of the impact of what you write (or say).
This AIDS story is the most blatant case of all by far. I could not possibly blame Rose for her own misdeeds - she suffers from them anyway, not anybody else - but when I get into the biography of Dambudzo Marechera, I can hear the bells ringing.
O.K., the poor guy was born in what used to be Rhodesia, under not so favourable circumstances - hardly the exception for any African - and he fled to Europe.
So far so good. Unfortunately, his behavior was hardly excusable to an average person, and increasingly less to a gradually more xenophobic European (or North American) society.
Common sense dictates that you don’t bite the hand that feeds you, but he lacked even that little, and there is a limit for everything, including the use of someones’ youth hardships to the explanation of evil, or plainly stupid actions.
Now, imagine one of the xenophobic rats reading all of that, and add for spice the fact that the variety of the AIDS virus that is spreading in Greece during the last decade belongs to the type A, and that type is more dangerous than the type B that used to be predominant in Greece at the 1990’s, as well as the info that the type A is coming directly from Africa while the type B is the “European variant” that is still predominant in the most of Europe except Greece.
It would make a truly sensational hate article in the pages of any newspaper like “Stohos”: “Lesbian Revelations: How I got involved with a Negro thug, got AIDS from him, and hated him to the point of becoming Lesbian”!!!
That would really explain why the likes of Hadji-Kara-Osman-Oglous’ “Popular Theocratic Thugs” can claim a stunning 4,3% of the Greek vote (according to the latest public opinion polls) against the seasoned “Hippies and friends of the left and progress” who have succeeded to increase their supporters to a stunning 4% of the Greek vote (according to the latest public opinion polls too).
Cheers…
Petros, I certainly did not read all of this into the comment and the biography I read.
Did anyone else read “Lesbian Revelations: How I got involved with a Negro thug, got AIDS from him, and hated him to the point of becoming Lesbian”
Somehow I doubt it.
So I am not sure what your real point is? Or is this just another little comment to try and get a reaction?
[And to be totally honest with you, your approval of me as a person is of no concern to me. I reserve that right for people who know me]
Well, nobody has read that article because nobody has written any such thing YET. They might do so in the future, if you keep posting without to check some damned details. Details like:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/marec.htm
“…established the nihilistic basis for his fiction.”
Do you know what “Nihilism” stands for? (or rather, for what it does not stand for?)
“…Although Marechera’s grades had been rather poor, his professors at the University recommended his a scholarship to Oxford. He studied from 1974 through 1976 at the New College, where he found out, that education was not much respected. In reaction to the indifference of his tutors, he tried to burn down the college…”
I am quite certain that the best way of promoting education is by burning down all those hated educational institutions, aren’t you, my fellow nihilist?
“…The House of Hunger was awarded the Guardian fiction prize in 1979. At the Guardian fiction prize ceremony he displayed his gratitude by tossing saucers at the chandeliers and a chair across the room, apparently aimed at the Guardian’s literary editor…”
I me or you had received that Guardian fiction prize, we would have shot that literary editor at point blank, ain’t that right my fellow nihilist?
“…Marechera briefly became a writer-in-residence at the University of Sheffield…”
Suddently he decided that those educational institutions are useful for something, i.e. feeding a poor writer with no means of surviving. He stopped trying to burn those hated educational institutions. Well, this guy has finally betrayed our nihilistic principles, and I guess that we would have to kill him for that, ain’t that right my fellow nihilist?
“…Marechera spent his last years with friends, often dead drunk, sleeping on their floors, and wandering on the streets. Considerable periods of time he camped out in Harare’s Cecil Square. In 1982 he was invited to a writer’s festival in Berlin, and was jailed for nine hours because he did not have a passport. He was fired from a teaching job at People’s College, and in 1984 he was arrested during the Zimbabwe Book Fair and held in a police cell for several days by the Central Intelligence Organization…”
This is the proper way of living my fellow nihilist: getting “dead drunk”, “sleeping in the floors”, “camping in the public squares”, “travelling without passport” being unable to keep a hated educational job like “teaching at Peoples’ College” e.t.c. e.t.c. Isn’t that right my fellow nihilist?
Not to mention “spreading AIDS” as well, isn’t that right my fellow nihilist?
I bet that you didn’t read anything wrong in Dambudzo Marechera’s biography. That is because you are a fellow nihilist after all…
My point is: “By drawing attention into a Lesbian who got infected from an African Nihilist (I’d rather use more proper descriptions here, but you would probably ban my post for that) you seem to encourage the view that young Africans are good-for-nothing nihilists whose only contribution to a european society is to spread AIDS amongst us, and turn our women into Lesbians out of hatred”.
Well, I have spent it for you. Do you understand it, or you want me to give you a phone call to clarify my point even further? I tried hard NOT to clarify it in fear of someone writing an article with that point in any xenophobic media, but “you forced my hand”, literally…
Excuse me ?
I’m sure it didn’t escape any of us reading this (well, those of us that went to the link the woman provided about the guy) that the man she got AIDS from was not the highest on the moralistic food chain. But what does that really have to do with the fact that this was a woman sharing her story of AIDS?
More importantly, what does that have to do with DD sharing the link to her story? Are we all to be judged by the character of the people that do us wrong?
Is it my idea that you can make a better research before you post something and that you can find a lot more stories of people with AIDS on the internet?
It is rather unfortunate, but in the modern world the impressions count more than the facts themselves, and I would like to point that out, if it doesn’t bother you. I am not judjing DD as evil, but as unthoughtful of some little details that can “steal the show” out of its’ true context.
I appreciate the need for research, but I don’t see how that applies here. DD was posting a link to the interview she had linked to last year, with an update that the woman had decided to identify herself and the man who infected her. DD was not posting this to judge either of these people, she posted it to commemorate World AIDS Day. Her post needed no research or commentary.
I don’t see the character of this man as revelant at all in this particular post.