Rajko Radovanovic
I Am the Only White Man I Can Trust:  The Futility of Identity

Dictated at birth, we have no influence over our ancestors, skin color or sexual orientation. These same categorizations,
used to ‘establish’ personal identity, can later produce life threatening or mitigating circumstances, depending on which
river bank of political thinking we find ourselves on. The abuse of concepts of identity centered around ‘difference’ or
‘the other’ always stigmatizes individuals or groups and inevitably produces social marginalization. In this way, modern
political establishments, through their use of the media, have promoted the notion of ‘other’ as a modern definition of
‘enemy.’ It is through this manufactured concept of ‘difference’ that moral justification is sought for inflicting
violence towards fellow human beings.