MALE - Dramatic Dar, mid-thirties, black

Dramatic Dar, mid-thirties, black

Darius McReele, on death row fOr sixteen years, has recently been exonerated because ofa series ofarticles written bya whitejournalist. He is a brilliant man, highly articulate, with deep political convictions,
some ofwhich he expresses here.

DAR: The problem is that we make our decisions based on news obtained from corporate-owned media outlets. What we need is Ted Tumer to finance a free-standing U.N. media division so that world crises receive air time appropriate to their level of trauma. That way, Palestinian refugee camps getting razed receive just as much air time as suicide bombers .. I'm saying that Israeli lobbyisrs have more influence than Palestinian ones and that neither side should receive more news coverage than a two-week slaughter of a million people in Botswana. · .. Our interest is in humanity .. -it's calling for intervention based on need as opposed to self-interest. And if we can only peace-keep three times a year, we should choose based on empathy and care. Because human beings care, Gerry, and our political beliefs are based on that care. Read the Bill of Rights -it's why we have identity politics to begin with -because our Founding Fathers based this sucker on humanistprinciples. So when it comes to foreign policy we need to fOllow those principles.
We need to ask ourselves, "What does that mean? -to be a part of the human race?" -independent of all other identity. What is it to be human?" And if it feels inherently inhumane to sit back and watch people die in Botswana while millions get spent chasing oil, then that's where my politics will fall; before I'm American or black or an SUV driver. I'll vote how I'm human. Period. Because politics does go that deep.