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Several of the infected women had contracted the virus from Simon during his visit to Gdansk in 2006 to organise the anti-racist “Music against Intolerance and Violence” festival.pic.twitter.com/kbKaHbKMfu
After his death, reporters contacted Simon’s mother back in Africa. Her response was: “The White Man killed my son.”pic.twitter.com/TdmyNZEMoX
Simon picked up many of his women from the “Warsaw Salon” - an artistic, liberal circle. In his writing Simon described these girls as ‘white mice’ - “sensitive, and adoring women who believed they were doing their duty towards political correctness by helping the poor refugee."pic.twitter.com/pIrmpgBkLw
One girl infected by Simon explained later: “I was fascinated by human rights activist fighting with racial stereotypes. Soon we started to meet, went to bed. I didn’t suspect that he could infect me with HIV virus and even less, hide from me that he is infected...”(cont)
“...I also thought that suspecting him of being infected would equal giving way to stereotypes. Thus we made love unprotected.”
Let us end this thread by looking at his most well known poem “Polish Goddess”. Think about everything you have read so far and consider what Simon may have been really trying to say when he wrote this.pic.twitter.com/ifMGQNLjSU
“Then - as the Moon lit the path of the beautiful Goddess illuminating the darkness of the night two tears ran down her left eye ending their journey burying all the nightmares healing wounds foisted upon me and upon my Brothers by those like her.”pic.twitter.com/Amuo8EQidN
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