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August 19, 2006
Thank Heaven For Little Girls
One little girl has been dead ten years and the whole world seems to be frothing at the mouth. "We've caught the killer, we haven't caught the killer, we shouldn't have blamed the mother, we should have blamed the mother..."
One little girl. How many people died in Katrina? How many people in Iraq? Lebanon and Israel last month? From AIDS? People raped and murdered in the Sudan?
Is it because her parents dressed her in adult clothes and shoved her on stage in those ridiculous kiddie pagents? I thought it was because we were bored in 1996: two years away from the Presidential Blow-Job, four years away from Hanging Chads... we had finished our glass of OJ and we needed a new murder to wet our panties over. But this is not the 90s... Oasis hasn't had a hit in ten years.
We're supposed to be a more serious nation since The Day That Changed The World. But we're not and never will be. And I can make my own peace with that. But one more picture of that little girl or that creepy man and I'll kill someone myself. I don't care. I never cared. One dead little girl doesn't mean a whole lot in a world full of dead children. And it's all because she was cute, white and sexualized.
Posted by emily at August 19, 2006 3:52 AM