It is not the first time someone who doesn’t “look american out” is lucia. And is not the last time either. I was just hoping that would be a matter of course in 2016, writes Sandra Christiansen.
I’m Swedish. Un-Swedish. I am dark. When I was little I was lucia, like most small children, in particular girls, often was. I bar the chandelier, with his hands hophållna in front of his chest and a strange feeling of pride. Hopefully there was no-one who fired hateful comments against me. If it was so, so it was done, at least not that I heard or noticed it.
Lucia is the light-bearer, the light in the darkest winter season, when the days are shortest and the nights seems infinitely long, and she carries with itself a promise that it will turn around. That darkness will become light again. the
We are celebrating lucia in order to not to lose hope. In november, when I got home the directory from Åhléns by brevinkastet, it felt hopeful.
at the same time I held my breath a little when I saw the picture on the easy smile beautiful, dark lucian, who looked at me with her brown eyes. I held my breath and hoped it would go unnoticed, that the 2016 in Sweden would be a matter of course, first, that lucian was a boy, secondly, that he had the traditional blonde hårsvallet.
I was hoping that we would avoid a replay of 2012, when SVT had a black-haired girl in his celebration of st. lucia day and a boy was lucia in the Ica julkatalog, and the racist comments were in abundance over social media. That hope dashed when rasisterna seriously ran in time with his think and his hat. “‘Diversity’ = genocide of the white.” “DISGUSTING of you to make fun of our nordic traditions so there.” The comments can serve as examples that we still have a long way to go. The racist comments had to be removed, and the image is at the Åhléns department store Facebook page is now overwhelmed with love. The 200 angry responses on the Åhléns Facebook page are overshadowed by the 10 000 like – and kärleksreaktioner.
The 200 angry responses on the Åhléns Facebook page are overshadowed by the 10 000 like – and kärleksreaktioner. #jagärhär is the tag that no person should have to endure hatred or attacks alone, #jagärhär movement has grown strong in a very short time. With the help of #jagärhär was a kärleksbombning of luciafotot, and now the positive comments are far many more than the negative.
But it is here with lucia, and how lucia should look like, a discussion that recurs year after year. Today, Åhléns cancelling the campaign because that hatred has become so great. The boy’s family has had enough of the attention.
I’m not surprised by the parents ‘ decision whether to draw the image, the dispersion image obtained in the social media must lucian feel singled out, and perhaps sad. It is not their decision who is sad, it is the hatred that is there. In a time when "Sverigevänner" considers it appropriate that in a distasteful way, to comment on a child’s appearance, in order that the hen with his dark hair and his brown eyes wearing luciakrona, so we all need to show that lucia looks at all sorts of different ways, and always have done.
It is not the first time someone who doesn’t "look american out" is lucia. And is not the last time either. Show your luciabild! Show that you are here. Spread a little light in the darkness. Think how very ridiculous it will be coming down on a dark-skinned children as lucia when there are all different shades of skin color among luciorna. the
How to discern the right shade for a lucia when the two tones are not equal? Or among all the different hair colors, hair styles and qualities of hair: curly, thick, straight and thin, how do you find the right?
Think how vain rasisternas attempt will be to devalue Åhléns gentle smile lucia when they have to sort out among hundreds, perhaps thousands of pictures and try to decide who really gets to be lucia. It is in the diversity of the light can prevail. How you think, when man descends to a level where they are explicitly malicious in their comments about a child who probably sits somewhere in the country and read what is written?
Who are you to determine how a lucia should look to our tradition to be preserved?
Sandra Wilson
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