Brace yourself, Sunday is coming. Lets hope it wont be
remembered as the bloody Sunday. Tomorrow, for the first time, LGBT Pride
Parade is about to take place in Podgorica – capital of Montenegro. You know - that
cute, small country in the Balkans – South East of Europe.
What else is new globally? USA government shutdown , then it
brought (sexy) back. The rest of the world cared more about their national
things, Nobel Prize for peace was not given to Malala and Montenegro received
report from Brussels on (non)progress we achieved in the process of joining EU.
Recently, all the media are full on various reports o LGBT
pride, judgments, calls for quitting – like they did it in Serbia too. This is
the time when our biggest test is coming – are we ready to accept that someone is different than us and
has right to be different ?
Montenegro. Country of democracy. Country on its way to
join European Union. Give me a break
please. This is what democracy looks like:
1.
Same party has been governing (and pretty much
same people) for last 20 years.
2.
Corruption in every social sphere and nepotism
are two main issues in the country.
3.
Minorities, women and children of ordinary
people (the mortals or the muggles) are being discriminated or face
difficulties in every day situations
4.
Church is everywhere in the country and our “religious
and spiritual leaders” call on hatred speeches , politics and business rather
than focusing on ideas and spirit of true Christianity
5.
Montenegro supported possibility of military
attack on Syria. Please forgive us!
6.
At the same time, we showed incapability to deal
with our own issues and have been selling the best of our country to foreigners
7.
Do I even have to say how to voting system goes
in here? Pure democracy
8.
Public administration and bureaucracy are in
complete control of big number of state affairs, completely corrupted and lets
be honest – completely incapable of
getting anything done
9.
Human rights respect, sexuality, women rights, freedom
of the media – taboo.
10.
So much progress on paper, misery in real life.
Don’t worry, this democracy isn’t so bad. The country gets
better and gets a lot of pinky promises before the election. I think they
should be held every month, for the sake of citizens.
So, upcoming pride parade is way too mainstream now – people
telling jokes, pejorative calling of LGBT population can be heard every day,
curses, preparation for violence or support for the group… I am not going to
discuss further on this, because in this country , being gay, being different is abnormal. Good thing is we all have an
opinion on this , but no one has opinion on 10 sad facts I mentioned before.
If you feel annoyed by people not reacting and being cool with
the country`s sink, or say that in public – everyone consider you a SERB and a
state enemy. NO. I am just a citizen who thinks with its own head, says its
opinion, is not afraid to come out as responsible citizen and say – THIS COUNTRY
NEEDS TO GET ITS SHIT TOGETHER, OR ALL OF US ARE GOING DOWN.
Yet, people care about more about parade and who is going to
come out from the closet on Sunday. I say yes to the walk, because I don’t think
any minority group should live in the closet, afraid and discriminated. This
blog goes to all those cowards, closed minded people, hiding behind their
parents, teachers, bosses back and afraid to come out and do something good for
their own country.
I see all those barbarians and violence coming tomorrow. All
the negative feedback on LGBT pride. Well, why don’t you just come out of your
own closet, my dear citizens? Why don’t you accept that someone has right to be
different and let them be?
Its easy to hate and curse, and hide behind the politics ,
church, mom and dad, anyone. This is the problem with this society – we judge
those who came out as who they are and what they feel, and yet most of us are
not able. Not able to say no to corruption, discrimination, nepotism, grey
economy, DPSmocracy we live in here, nepotism, etc… And it makes me sad and
angry.
John F. Kennedy once said – Ask yourself what can you do for
your country, not only what your country does for you. Imagine, like John Lenon
once sang – its easy if you try – if every citizen did something good for
Montenegro, and its progress. Not judging others and looking at welfare for
all.
I hope one day we will have a parade when all of us will
come out as active citizens of Montenegro and EU. Till then, I say yes to those
who had courage, for all those having opinion and mouth open but doing nothing
and staying closed-minded… I feel sorry for you. May the force be with us, who
are not cowards, poltroons, etc.. who are not afraid and who think.
I have a dream that one day, this country will be a true
example of human rights respect, social progress and democracy. We have the potential
in us, it just needs to get out of the
closet and not be afraid. We shouldn’t be afraid of the government, government –
since not doing a good job should be afraid of the citizens. Looking forward to
the change, if it ever happens. In the meantime, peace y`all !
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