personal response

it's been a week since zidane's head-butting incident, and everything that wanted to be said about how zidane's actions were understandable, if not excusable, has already been said.

the only thing left for me to muse upon is something tangential. to me, it is fascinating to think that an entire history of social, political, and individual struggle can be enacted in a single physical gesture. i think of this as a text that will be unpacked for years, though it was "just" a soccer game. it says something to me about the impotence of our words when, in my opinion, our most recent "great" statement on racism is zidane's head making contact with his opponent's chest, during a game of soccer.