Do not be kind!

Many of the people pretended that they cared about Caroline Flack’s death and re-posted her last words: be kind. However, this sense of niceness is like February snow, beautiful and charming, but it does not last. I know this because the people that drove her to suicide are still enjoying the fame and attention they had before, and still as nasty as before. And the millions who looked angry of what happened to Caroline Flack, completely forget what was that “be kind” all about.

As for me, I teach my kids to not be kind, a million roses will not stop a bullet, will not shut a racist up, will not silence a bully. I teach them that kindness does nothing to us, did nothing to us, and it is the weapon of the loser: useless. I teach my kids that Rosa Parks was not kind when she challenged the seating arrangements on the bus. I teach my kids that Mr Churchill was not kind when he declared war on Hitler. I teach my children that the Suffrage, anti-slavery, labour rights and all things that matters in history were not achieved through kindness, on the contrary, fight, resist, and be stubborn, loud, and rude to defend your rights and the rights of others.  

Be kind! Many people change their Facebook or Twitter profile, then went on to watch Pierse Morgan, buy the Sun and the Daily Mail, and felt so good about themselves: FUCK YOU. Caroline Flack is dead, if you want to be kind to her then stop the haters and those who spread hate, otherwise the congeniality you are showing is more towards the abusers rather than the victims.

Every time this country witness a disaster, which maybe manifested in many shapes or forms, you see the public anger rising quickly and then as if nothing has happened, we forget. It is right and brave to move o and forward, but we must not allow those who facilitated such things to happen to go on and do it again and again.

If you really and truly believed that the death of Caroline Flack was avoidable, then do not let get away with it, do not let them do it again. Be kind to those who are desperate, those in need, and for the bullies and trolls: fuck them.

  

Ahmad Baker

PS: the photo below is a cartoon published after the Finsbury Mosque attack in June 2017. The Artist put the logos of some the hate spreading newspapers on the side of the van used in the attack, portraying them as sponsors of hate.