{"id":310,"date":"2006-04-18T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=310"},"modified":"2006-04-18T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T09:03:00","slug":"brett-goldin-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/brett-goldin-murdered\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Goldin murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m feeling really low about Brett Goldin’s murder<\/a>. He grew up with my girlfriend S and her brothers. She’s gutted. It’s just so damned senseless. Five guys have been arrested for the killings (Brett and a buddy of his, Richard Bloom, were both killed).<\/p>\n

I dunno. My emotions tell me that this country is really screwed. My head tells me that all countries are pretty much the same.<\/p>\n

But I reckon South Africa has a long apartheid-legacy to undo. My understanding is that apartheid was a system that systematised the cheapening of human life. Black South Africans were educated to be underlings. And they were forced to obey the rules. Under apartheid, it was a good thing, the correct-rebellious-thing-to-do was to disobey the law. And when revolution was happening, life was cheap. People were killed.<\/p>\n

So now we sit in a society that still remembers lawlessness and death as things that helped liberate.<\/p>\n

What are we going to do? How do we shift these things? How do we re-value life in a society gone mad? How do we re-value life in a world gone mad?<\/p>\n

Brett was an actor. From what I understand, he was one of South Africa’s rising stars. He was making a goddamn difference in the work he was doing.<\/p>\n

What work can I do? What work can YOU do? Something has to change. Things can’t go on like this.<\/p>\n

Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m feeling really low about Brett Goldin’s murder. He grew up with my girlfriend S and her brothers. She’s gutted. It’s just so damned senseless. Five guys have been arrested for the killings (Brett and a buddy of his, Richard …<\/p>\n

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