for many of the responses, it may just be glossy; inward and when faced with certain challenges that offer ease of acceptance to our friends with lighter skin, we inwardly would call our bluff. In apartheid South Africa, you knew the importance of the skin colour too, when your fellow African, being coloured, has more rights.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being black; it's just that we are becoming too apologetic, and more, in consistent contrast to someone's assertion that "God is a chartered member of the white citizens' council"...
Sometimes in the natural mind, we wish we aren't black; several opportunities have evaded us when in flagrant disregard for performances and the advantage that 'it is our country', we are brashly treated to contempt in brazen deference to some white skinned mediocre.
Am sure you guys don't want to know what we suffer, working with them... being stigmatized, traumatized, demoralized... yet no help from anywhere. And you say you are proud of being black... You can say that again, perhaps from the comfort of your house, where your carriage is not trivialized by some black brother seeking to gain unholy ascendancy and inglorious, arrogant relevance... just by being the black before you!
Posted: at 22-09-2010 04:45 PM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac |
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