ナタリア・コルドバ・バックリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ナタリア・コルドバ・バックリーInstagram)「“We are witnessing the deep seated feelings created by a country where some human life is worth little more than nothing; where hatred can be proclaimed as a heroic virtue; where dissent becomes violence, even if it is only verbal. Let us think cautiously of the brazen and rough, those wrongly called barbarian, they are not dead in the grave; but merely asleep and will someday be awaken”. The above quote was written years ago by Jesús Reyes Heroles to describe Mexico. Today, it still fits the description of the 2 neighboring countries I call home. Mexico and the US share a depth that many are unwilling to see and accept. The first human life to spring forward in these lands are my relatives. Both of these countries histories share tales of people who have torn themselves apart over and over again in an effort to finally be free from the leftovers of brutality. The conquests, wars of independence, revolutions, and modern struggles which afflict both lands have left an inheritance of pain deep within our blood. Our archaic wounds have been treated, but have they healed? This speaks of our past failures as humanity, to unify past with present, religion with spirituality, native with conquerer, individuality with community, life with death. I realize the specifics of oppression of one and/or of another are different but the consequences of such violence are, in essence as eerily similar as we all are. Deep in our most primal wisdom, I believe we all know that death is the only thing that will release us from earthly agony. But, still, while we live, we all must heal. We must travel to our past to learn from our mistakes. We must look directly into the eyes of the present and see what we’ve made of it. The songs of our past transgressions are chanted fiercely by the voices we must listen to, our ancestors, the link between us all. So please, you who for centuries have described our relatives as savages. Judge not “when the brazen and rough awaken” and with their voice help turn our desperation into hope. What you seem to not understand is that death is not a feared consequence of uprising but merely the freedom rarely had in living.」12月4日 7時42分