Let me start from a simple fact. Your children are no better than mine. Yet this is not where we live. All children today are born into a world of passport apartheid, on very different sides.
Citizenship keeps us down
My children were born with a kick-me sign on their backs — a Sri Lankan passport. This entitles them to concentration camps in Australia or drowning in the EU. Meanwhile rich/white children can go wherever they want. White children can see the world while brown children sweat in visa lines.
Well, fuck your kids. They’re no better than ours. We are all born free. We are all born with the same God-given right to walk the Earth, and it is only denied to the Dirty South by systematic violence. Your vaunted citizenship. It keeps us in chains.
And we’re supposed to be thankful, lucky to have citizenship at all. We are all citizens of somewhere, they say, from Pakistan to Sweden. Separate but equal. But why do white people get visa on arrival here while brown people get jail on arrival there? Don’t seem equal to me. It’s racist bullshit. Tourism is colonialism with tips. Real hospitality goes both…
