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And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You Jo Carrillo Our white sisters radical friends love to own pictures of us sitting at a factory machine wielding a machete in our bright bandanas holding brown yellow black red children reading books from literacy campaigns holding machine guns bayonets bombs knives Our white sisters radical friends should think again.

Our white sisters radical friends love to own pictures of us walking to the fields in hot sun with straw hat on head if brown bandana if black in bright embroidered shirts holding brown yellow black red children reading books from literacy campaigns smiling. Our white sisters radical friends should think again. No one smiles at the beginning of a day spent digging for souvenir chunks of uranium of cleaning up after our white sisters radical friends

And when our white sisters radical friends see us

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in the flesh not as a picture they own, they are not quite as sure if they like us as much. We're not as happy as we look on their wall.