I was watching the news the other day and came across an article about 22-year-old Mahsa Amini from Iran, who was brutally beaten by the morality police, after she was arrested for wearing her hijab ‘too loosely’. She fell into a coma, while in police custody and passed away three days later. According to the police, they did not lay a hand on her. They are now claiming, that she had a heart attack, while waiting at the morality police station. Mahsas father states, that she has had no health problems or history of heart issues, and that she was covered with bruises, when he went to see her in the hospital, before she passed away.
This story really got to me, and it is heart-breaking to see, that we still are controlling what people wear, and what they should look like. You would think, that in the 21st century, you would have more freedom, and have a say in what you look like, and what you wear. It feels like, we are back in the 1940’s with Nelson Mandela fighting for basic human rights.
That brings me, to what I want to address today; basic human rights. Being beaten and tortured for skin colour, ethnicity, religion, or at least a thousand other things, goes back in history. I find it sickening to still have laws controlling things like that, or for that matter ever having laws like for example the apartheid system that separated white and non-white people. That was what Mandela fought against and dedicated his life to. When I think about Nelson Mandela, it makes me proud, that a man like that ever existed on this planet. With such devotion, Mandela managed to become the first ever black president in South Africa. Mandela was a revolutionary political leader, as well as a philanthropist with an everlasting love for children. After 19 years of fighting against the apartheid system, Mandela was arrested for treason along with sabotage and sentenced to life in prison.
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