It is not by the colour of their skin that will will judge them.

There have been a lot of people that suffered from the xenophobic attacks that have occurred in South Africa. Most of the victims are of course the black foreigners hailing from Nigeria all the way down to South Africa.

One wonders why these people are subject to such hostility and pain. Why after 1994 that black people are still fighting each other and we can not find a way to live with each other in a peaceful rainbow nation. Why can't we be happy that we have a black government in power which should be able to take care of their own people?

After all the fighting our ancestors (whether old or recent) had to endure to lay claim to what is rightfully theirs, one wonders if the fighting will ever stop.

The people of South Africa are not happy, they are fighting each other for crumbs. Why is this so? The government in power cares not to change the way things are right now, the government in power only cares about filling their pockets with enough cash, that when they retire, they will be rich and comfortable beyond measure.

The current status quo is pretty much the same as it was during the apartheid era. White people have always had economic power and they have done everything in their power to keep things that way, including infiltrating the very hearts of our government by giving them what they want, so they can keep what they want.

If we were to unit and get a government that will empower it's people economically, there would be less fighting with each other.

Black conciseness is not only about being aware that you are black, black conciseness is about realising that you have been marked by the systems put in place by the white minority on this country, that you are beneath them. This means that you have decided to fight these systems.

Why you mad though?

#Rhodes must fall has been on everybody's' lips if not their copter screens. The whole country has been affected by the brave students of UCT. Young black students fighting for change in higher education institution. So why is everybody so mad?

For over 300 years black people have been oppressed in this country. Apartheid only accounts for 46 years of that oppression. Before apartheid this country was controlled by the European settlers; the first permanent settlers were the Dutch who eventually transformed their settlements into a colony. the British entered the country and soon they were able to take control of the Dutch colony. Later the were unhappy with what had happened and they started to revolt, which resulted in the Boer war.

The Boer War started in 1899 and ended in 1902; the British had successfully defeated the Afrikaner’s, and gained control over several other colonies. The British reacted by placing Afrikaners in concentration camps, and killing 26,000 of them. Now that the British had control over several new colonies, the British wanted to unify these communities, and they created the South Africa Act in 1910, which established the Union of South Africa. The British recognized that these united colonies of South Africa would not run successfully without the cooperation of the Afrikaners. Therefore, the British proposed some compromises and eventually worked out conflicts between them and the Afrikaners. This cooperation laid out the foundation for a future of white supremacy in South Africa.

One the day of 1913 the native South African, woke up as a pariah in the land of his birth. These were the early stages of white supremacy which further resulted into apartheid.

When young black people stand up, recognise and fight the injustice that has been happening towards black people in this country, it surprises me why some people would think that these kids are causing a unnecessary commotion in this country. 

As a new South Africa, we can't have structure that still celebrates heroes of oppression, we should not tolerate any kind of oppression in educational institutions or in the work place. Many white people have a problem with #RhodesMustFall, purely because they realise that they will be losing some of their white privileges which they got through oppression.

If you do not have a valid reason as to why Rhodes should not fall, then you should do this country a huge favour and keep quiet. This is the black man fighting against the oppressive system put in place by our former oppressors, not against white people.

To my non-African sister

I saw you the other day. I saw you walking my way.

I saw walking with the confidence of my black sister, as you were my black sister.
You braided your hair and made a statement to whomever was watching. You let your hips confused your brothers enemy. You wore a dashiki and claimed your false heritage under the African flag.

I saw you the other day. I saw you walking my way.

You tried to be stereotypically black because you said my people have culture. You left you house because you want culture? Or are you looking for that BBC?

I saw you the other day. I saw you walking my way.

You confused your father and your brother's enemy, you confused me and made me bite into the fruits that were reserved for the perfect aryan boy. I enjoyed it and I lost myself in you.

I saw you the other day. I saw you walking my way.

My hand moved slowly under your shirt until I reached the back of your bra. I looked into your green eyes and inhaled your lust for me. I stroked your golden blonde hair away from your face and I allowed myself to get lost in your lust, to forget that your father wanted you to be with another.

I saw you the other day. I saw you walking my way.

You started saying you were my Beyonce and I was your Jay-Z. A memory slapped the side of my head, a memory of my black sister singing her lungs out to a Beyonce track because to her that was black empowerment.

I saw you the other day. I saw you walking my way.

what have you done to me? Why did I allow myself to lose myself into this nigger lover that only cares about my black cock and not my struggle?

I saw you the other day. I saw you walking my way, I and I wished I had ignored you. 

Black consciousness at UCT

The end of assimilation and the beginning of self-determination.

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