I was watching the news yesterday (the Kabul attacks) and they showed this Afghan man who was literally naked (literally literally by the way I’m not exaggerating only his raised knee was covering his genitals) bleeding from the head on a hospital bed, there was photos of burnt looking faces drenched in blood, of combusted shoes (from the force of the blast), of legless men on hospital bed etc… and you know compare this with the way the Manchester attack have been show to us and now it should beyond undeniable that there is a way white/European deaths are shown to us and non white/non European deaths are shown to us. The Manchester attacks the only thing I really remember reported is that smiling photo of that 8 years old girl who died taken pre-attack and the story of that homeless man who took nails/shrapnel out of a persons face after the blast. I don’t remember seeing that girls corpse, that homeless man taking out the nails or even that persons face after the nails have been taken out their face. I remember also seeing tributes for all these dead people, being told their names, their age, I remember our media choosing a much more respectable humanising way to talk about the victims basically. But Afghanistan? And for that matter non white/non European deaths AS A WHOLE? Our bodies are plastered all over the news in the most gruesome graphic ways possible to the point that others have now become desensitised to our deaths and suffering, now it’s basically the NORM for people to hear about the violence in our countries and/or hear about us/ see us dying. You are not presented our non white non European pain in a ‘look what these people have lost’ way (which was the case for Manchester as we were shown pre attack photos of the victims, heard stories from relatives and friends, were not shown bloodied images only told most of the gruesome details etc…) in the case of non white non Europeans deaths our deaths are pretty much presented from a ‘YET another attack’ angle and in the case of Afghanistan (since that’s what I saw on the news yesterday) this was confirmed to me by all the HD Afghan blood I saw yesterday. After seeing so much of that non white, non European Afghan blood we’ve pretty much lost touch with afghans and now only see Afghan death as ‘the usual’. Now dead Afghans have just become another ‘statistic’ for us to look at. And to be frank after seeing the way their deaths were depicted yesterday I would go even as far as saying they’ve become downright tragedy porn for us to gawk at. Our non white non European bodies thanks to our media I truly believe are no longer human to most of us as a society. Again I am only talking about Afghanistan here because that’s what the reporting I saw yesterday was about but the real issue here is white supremacy and how non white non Europeans deaths AS A WHOLE are presented to us.

I’m just making this post because I urge you these past few days as people report on the London/Manchester attacks and Kabul attacks to CRITICALLY look at the way both are going to be presented to us. This isn’t about pitting those attacks against one another, I am simply asking you to notice the lack of respect with which non European/non white deaths are being presented to us. Someone on here once said they don’t remember seeing a bloody white/European body on the news only non white non Europeans and honestly after looking at the news yesterday and the photo of that naked bloody Afghan man on a makeshift hospital bed more than ever do I agree with them. Our media nor cares nor respects us non whites non Europeans. Even in death. Call it out. Please. We also deserve humanity and respect.