It is what it is …..
Racial issues in this country are far beyond done and
dusted, yes folks get very uneasy if you start talking about race and the
unfairness that still lies in this country is still very big, pretence is
always a diversion to the real truth, yes being ignorant it’s a bliss but being
ignorant by choice is idiotic to me. Africa
as a whole is not free from anything if you look at it with Economic and Financial
eyes , nor has the mentality of white private owned companies changed in South
Africa , I for one am not a
politician !!but I am not
blind either as I am a tax payer in this country and an active citizen that takes interest in what is happening around my
country , its corporate culture , social culture and the overseas relations SA has built over
the years .
Mandela once said that
“nobody is born with hatred and
just as a person can be taught to hate , same applies with love “, it’s just
unfortunate that not all white folks feel like that in this country nor do they
give a shit about black people but rather tolerate their presence just because
of the laws that our ex –President had
laid down taking into account a long
term plan which included all South Africans who graduated from Varsity/or
not who needed to be given an opportunity ,to have that chance to contribute towards SA’s economy , as that’s what all South Africans want , to
be given a fair opportunity within whatever field that they studied irregardless of colour . Unfortunately the real world paints a different
picture.
Work hard , be honest , do your best and don’t ever give up
in what your heart desires , that’s what
my grandfather used to preach in our
household and that’s all good but what
he dint realise then (…or maybe he did ,
I don’t know…) which I now know after I had my own fair share of unfair treatments is the fact that “power and money is not in black
folks hands” !! it will take a
very long time before the powers are shifted and evened out !!...I shall quote a rap line by J. Cole i.e “ black folks never had money, coz we
don’t know how to keep money…“ These are hard words to hear but end of the day it’s the truth .
The dream that uMandela had was good and all but unfortunately we all have
different upbringings, culture ,
different religions , different life baggage which tends to influence the way
we view others , life and ourselves , then
we have our history which forms the foundation of what our forefathers had to go through for us to even be able to
walk freely in this country ( I honestly do not give a fuck how young or free we are, I personally think every
child born in SA must know our history ,it must be flipin compulsory in our
education system !!!)
Most of us born in
the 80’s apart from getting older and realising that time just flew by and to
the born frees ( translation the one’s born in the 90’s ) , we all have a very big battle to fight , not all
of us will have Masters , doctorates or will
ever invent shit , but education still forms power in its own sense and besides that we have the challenge of having
to be GREAT in everything that we do ,
be it entertainment , academic , entrepreneurship , art .ect , as not being
good at something today forfeits the purpose of building ones wealth and progressing .
Racism is a continuous battle all over the world but in SA
specifically its very naïve of our leaders to assume different and it’s also embarrassing to see the same black
leaders being in the self enrichment
business and seeing black men and
women being used in our so called rainbow nation corporate world that is just
pretence and bullshit . Tax terminology “PAYE
“ which means the more you earn ,the
more you pay SARS !! , but who earns
more in this country , who are the folks
who own private golf clubs , who own properties and making millions from
black tenants , who are the folks who
have offshores accounts , move monies between countries so as to avoid paying
taxes ??? yo’ll know the answer to that ....
The hustle for black people and white people will never be
the same in this country , doesn’t matter how privileged you are or feel ,
there will always be an incident where you are forced to “ apparently know your
place “ , what do I say to that “big middle finger “
As young /adult black women and men of this country, we have
a lot to prove to ourselves and achieve , hard as it may be to deal with the
unfairness /hate that still lies low but exists , one thing that is sweeter than getting even
is succeeding , acquiring assets , investing and reading up on things that are interesting and enlightening , I think we all must strive towards that little by little
since we know what our reality is .
Brenda .
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