Must brown people be martyred for Americans to be motivated?

June 23rd, 2009 by Guest Contributor

I think Americans are fetishizing video of Neda Soltani’s death in a way they would not if she were a young, blonde, American college student shot down on an American street. We do not need to see the lifeless bodies of those women in order to care for them. But people like Neda owe access to their deaths so Americans can access their own humanity.

Isn’t there something wrong with this?