I have been a terrible citizen

August 2025

I’ve only just now found out that the current government of Curaçao have stoped giving press conferences. I am appalled at my own ignorance to what is going on in my home country.

The fact is that in truth our worlds are centered around our daily struggle to keep our own lives afloat. I cannot fault anyone nor myself for focusing on themselves.

Yet we know that we have a responsibility to call out injustice in our systems. This is the only way we can ensure a better future for ourselves and those we love. 

I am happy zionists, fascists, colonists and bigots are being called out. We protest genocides, corruption, war crimes and capitalist greed.

But we must not only call out these atrocities across the world.  We must also root out the seeds of injustices at home. 

As the now almost cliché quote by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. says, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. 

The current government of Curaçao has previously been criticized for not listening to the public. Now, in their second term, they have also eliminated a way for them to be criticized and held accountable.

Getting rid of press conferences is effective them shutting the people they serve out. An act very reminiscent to Trump and his fascist government.

It is also problematic and hypocritical of me to use Zuckerberg’s internet to call out the rots in our systems. Yet here I am. 

I do not know what else to do, nor do I know what my next steps should be. My work has been my form of activism. And I also support manifestations and good old fashion protests. Still I am unsatisfied with the results. I ask myself, what more can I do?

I must push against my own tunnel vision. Keep myself better informed. And keep questioning the system we have inherited.

Armed with passion and conviction, I will continue to storm the gates of Kleptocracy. 

I ask that we all be vigilant. Hold the leaders of your communities, institutions, corporations and countries accountable. Demand better. Vote, use your rights! Make them listen. Do what you can, and do not stay silent.