Why America Needs Foreign Correspondents

Your media is blind. You need an outside eye

The Minister Of Education by Kudzanai Chiurai

People ask why I write about America. Why do Americans write about Sri Lanka? Just consider me your faithful foreign correspondent.

One cannot see that their own fly is open. You need an outside eye. In this case, America, you have no pants, you’re screaming, and you’re covered in blood. Put down the steroids and walk away from the nukes.

Let me help you with a few simple words. You use these words on other countries all the time. They now apply to you:

Corruption. Concentration Camps. Collapse. 
Nepotism. Racism. Election Rigging. 
Abduction. Torture. Brutal Repression.
Crimes Against Humanity. Forced Sterilizations. Fascism.

American media comfortably uses this language for the abroad, often accurately. These words condense many details into the general horror that they are. The same media, however, gets all mealy-mouthed at home. It honestly gets absurd.

The same NYTimes that brought you ‘enhanced interrogation’, is now calling vaginal mutilation ‘invasive gynecology procedures’. We are talking about knives cutting the genitals of captive migrant women. How they dress up the monstrous in words…