Wear a Sign Across Your Back

Tonight we saw a goofy Indonesian sit-com in which the “Bad Guys” were signified by one of them wearing an Osama bin Laden t-shirt.

Odds are, this teenager here is mostly excited just to have the word FUCK writ in block letters on his back. I’m not saying it’s all innocence: there’s plenty of bad stuff brewing here. But what do you do when you really are just a kid playing guitar on the street & so many ‘bad guys’ on the nightly news seem to look just like you?

Even more poignant, though: this t-shirt is from Bali, sold all over the island, commemorating what they call 'Bali Black', the October 12th anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombings that killed hundreds & impoverished thousands. Is this kid Muslim or Hindu? You won't know by looking.