Something I've thought about often since Kirk's assassination, is that no one has made a call-back to the 'Je Suis Charlie' trend after the Charlie Hebdo attack in 2015. To me it's an obvious connection since they were both held up as martyrs for free speech, but no one seems to have thought to get the old T shirts or hashtags out. I wonder if, because the collective psyche is so focused on the present, they have simply been forgotten
Thank you for this reminder to remember, and to help others to remember. Now is a time when so many people and events are in critical danger of being forgotten. In the blood of a revolutionary people flows the collective memory of every martyr and sacrifice which built the foundation upon which we stand today.
La vida no vale nada si no es para perecer
Porque otros puedan tener lo que uno disfruta y ama
La vida no vale nada si yo me quedo sentado
Después que he visto y soñado que en todas partes me llaman
[ Life is worthless if it is not to perish
So that others may have what one enjoys and loves
Life is worthless if I sit still
After I have seen and dreamed that they call me everywhere ]
Pablo Milanés
Something I've thought about often since Kirk's assassination, is that no one has made a call-back to the 'Je Suis Charlie' trend after the Charlie Hebdo attack in 2015. To me it's an obvious connection since they were both held up as martyrs for free speech, but no one seems to have thought to get the old T shirts or hashtags out. I wonder if, because the collective psyche is so focused on the present, they have simply been forgotten
Thank you for this reminder to remember, and to help others to remember. Now is a time when so many people and events are in critical danger of being forgotten. In the blood of a revolutionary people flows the collective memory of every martyr and sacrifice which built the foundation upon which we stand today.