skylikethat:

because you’re stereotyping a country with something incredibly incredibly negative and acting like it’s what represents them in the world.

associating colombia with cocaine and the cartels is like associating every single muslim with ISIS. do you get how racist that would be? because the cartels are literally ISIS in colombia, they were the biggest users of modern day terrorism originally. bombs, kidnappings, public killings, they’ve used it all.

it’s also a very personal situation.

you know how nobody makes any jokes about 9/11 in the US? that’s because 3,000 people were killed.

over 500,000 people have been killed in colombia over the drug wars.

because what cocaine for colombia is is a “war”. it’s not a drug, it’s actual warfare that has been going on for over 60 years. there were over 5 million refugees having to flee their homes at one point because of it. the people most impacted are indigenous people who live in the mountains and jungles (a good place to originally hide from the conquistadors) but are where the drug traffickers hide.

one of our own players cuadrado had to hide under his bed when guerillas came and shot and killed his father in another room. that’s something he lived through.

so i know westerners think it’s cute and funny and seem to enjoy this idea we live in these weird backwards ways and do nothing but fight each other for drugs because we’re “monkeys” and “animals” and “thugs” according to tweets i saw yesterday, but this issue has had a huge impact on colombia and we don’t think it’s funny. we’re not proud of cocaine, we don’t use it the way england does (third on the list of users and we’re somewhere at the bottom), and if you think think it’s funny it only shows you’re really ignorant and have no respect for the devastation it’s caused our country.