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The issue of Che's cult status and the use of his image as pop iconography is irritating to all of those who are educated enough to know what he was about and what he did. I find that it is especially frustrating here in a University environment where kids are wearing his image because they think it looks cool. They will freely condemn, vilify, and characterize our former President as a murderer and American despot (again because they don't know better and it is the popular thing to do to seem deep and brilliant) but will then wear paraphernalia that celebrates a man who murdered with his own hands and whose only real interest in life was rocking the boat to cause chaos, death, hate, and destruction. I apologize but it is hard sometimes being so frustrated and ashamed of the soft, trendy, and uneducated nature of my generational peers. We are truly a me generation and an uninformed one at that. Maybe next we will see kids rocking shirts with Pol Pot, or Stalin, or Franco, or maybe even someone like Himmler. Can't wait! Sometimes standing against the tide of ignorance really makes you appreciate environments where people know that the real world is often a violent place where bad people do bad things, and that sometimes our world here in the US is false but it is still up to those who know to protect those who don't want to. Hey kinda like you guys.
Atilla
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