Just some kids.
I really like this picture because it shows happy Iraqi kids. They will have had to endure so much throughout their lives that over privileged spoilt uncaring and racist westerners cannot begin to understand. They make an immediate judgement because of how they look or where they are told these kids are from.
What really stands out to me is how diverse these kids are. Just look at all the skin tones and I bet not one of those kids would even know how to be racist even to the invaders from the west. They just happily accept one another. In the west, it seems people are hell bent pointing out the differences between the variety of indigenous and newer peoples in Europe. Patronisingly unbelievable levels of measures that are clearly presented to peoples as an all embracing opportunity to stay right where you are. To keep them in their place. When they meet with objection from the proletariat they accuse them of being racist yet they clearly veil their own racist separatist measures with the notion of doing good. Yet it is pretty safe to say that the vast majority of new peoples would wish to assimilate with the general populous. Surely it has to be so. After all, in the last 50 years, peoples have arrived and had children and grand children and these measures are still in place and actively keeping peoples apart. Some sad people still see them as outsiders whilst completely neglecting to recall that they are indeed part of the British family (and I am being so kind in saying that) that once spanned the globe. To deny them their Britishness and therefore 'right' the same as everybody is like suddenly deciding Lincolnshire and the Cotswolds are no longer part of the country.
Think about it!
©SKC
