The eternal chicken and egg debate, I guess...
In the context of Mozart's famous opera:
Which came first: the racial hatred, or the racial self-hatred?...
I found it very interesting to observe the amount of pussy-footing exercised by opera companies around the depiction of Monostatos.
The irony is, he is all around us: his ugly messages are repeated to and by Black people every single day, on every single continent of the world.
Within your own consciousness, in your subconscious collective:
Where does the Monostatos Syndrome begin; and more importantly, when does it end?...
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