Photo of the week. I didn’t take it nor do I know who did. I found it on the Dutch news broadcast website nos.nl. It shows a queue at a polling station during last week’s provincial election.
This isn’t a spectacular photo at all compared to the many pictures we’ve seen this week, showing people getting hurt, injured or killed, or grieving, begging and lied to at a rate we’ve never seen before.
Still this is my photo of the week. I’m not sure if the photographer or the news editor made it on purpose. But if you take a close look, you’ll find another theme: keeping distance to the unknown (person) - both ways. This is an everyday photo. It’s happening all around us. In fact, it’s about you and me. This is why inclusion is just a word - this is why we’re all complicit of discrimination. This is where it all starts. The massacre, the war, the wall.
My guess is you didn’t even see. But this is a horrible photo. Because this is where it starts. By not being aware what happens close to you. By ignoring and denying what is fundamentally wrong. It’s up to you and me.
#discrimination #inclusion #awareness #integration #politics #news #nothingnew
