Slog - Comments on Hero of our Times http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times I finally have a chance to post about this piece of news from West Africa: Dozens of migrants trying to reach Europe spent three weeks at sea off West Africa's coast and threw nearly 50 bodies overboard after their vessel lost power and supplies dwindled, officials said Tuesday. ...The boat, which set out from Senegal with as many as 150 people and apparently traveled hundreds of miles, was found Tuesday by a Mauritanian patrol boat, a Spanish Civil Guard official said. It was one of the highest death tolls this year among Africans trying to escape poverty and reach Europe's... Copyright 2008 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:53:42 -0800 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:30:53 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by NaFun yup. You should be ashamed of yourself and your life of bourgeois privilege.

]]> NaFun http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845623 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845623 News Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:05:27 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave he should be ashamed that given all the privlidge he had, he used it to try to frame everything as a marxist message, can only muster 3 picture slog posts of women and buildings. Bravo Chaz, you truly failed africa and the united states.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845630 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845630 News Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:09:40 -0800 Comment by superyeadon Thinking out loud can be messy. But at least Mudede's thinking. Can't fault him for that. (And he's probably getting paid to do it on the slog. Effing capitalist thought provoker.)

]]> superyeadon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845637 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845637 News Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:14:47 -0800 Comment by NaFun Charles, why on Earth should you be ashamed of anything you call shameful in that post? You are doomed to a life of sadness if you

]]> NaFun http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845659 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845659 News Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:25:28 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle You know, they're building a high speed passenger train from Morocco to Spain - that would be a lot easier.

I got my citizenship by being born here, like my grandparents, and my dual citizenship because my mom and step-dad moved to Canada when I was 11 - and then I applied for it before going into the Canadian Army. My son got both by virtue of being born here as my son.

But my sister (born in Canada) had to apply for US citizenship and it took forever, even though she had a Texan accent, and had gone to school since Kindergarten in Washington, California, and Texas. To get that I had to pull strings and get US Senators involved to get the INS to stop treating her like an illegal immigrant, even though she can't even speak anything other than American English.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845666 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845666 News Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:28:02 -0800 Comment by -B- What you would feel more validated in life if you had some massive hardship to overcome?
You are where you are because of circumstances you had no part in when younger. Others made a choice for you. If you had a part in the decision at that time, would you really have chosen to have had it harder just to feel validated by the romantic notion of who you want to be instead of truly who you are now?
Seems there is some guilt at play because you are not part of a group that has endured some extreme hardship to get where they are. Your past haunts you because it is not the romantic a struggle you would like it to be.

]]> -B- http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845696 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845696 News Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:41:58 -0800 Comment by Grant Cogswell It takes a considerable amount of vision just to see that, Charles, and to put it that way. But don't worry, the monster is coming for you anyway: you just won't have had constant practice wrestling him. May I suggest you dump all your worldly goods, connections and credibility into some delightful and self-actualizing but unprofitable art project, burn your bridges by publicly renouncing all you have spent your life building, and go to some hip backwater and eat Ramen for nine months, and then go work somewhere beautiful where nobody knows you with all your remaining posessions in a little bookbag. Then, I promise, you will feel free. I'll save you a hammock.

]]> Grant Cogswell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845822 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845822 News Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:47:21 -0800 Comment by cochise. your brain is growing on me.

]]> cochise. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845826 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845826 News Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:49:57 -0800 Comment by legal immigrant Charles, count you f*cking blessings!

]]> legal immigrant http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845844 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845844 News Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:11:41 -0800 Comment by lk Your greatest shame is selfish and pathetic. How about the fact that you, like the rest of the whitecollar immigrants from Africa are contributing to the braindrain of the whole continent?

]]> lk http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845988 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c845988 News Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:50:58 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Good point, lk, but isn't AIDS/HIV and TB and other diseases doing that in larger numbers anyway?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c846049 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/hero_of_the_our_times#c846049 News Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:30:53 -0800