The biggest problem with South Africa and our so called democracy, is that in the 21 years of democracy, we have failed to deal with our past.
As we celebrate freedom day in South Africa, whose freedom are we really celebrating? The 45% of people who are still leaving under the poverty line, those who still don't have homes and running water, maybe the social divide in the country, or the high levels of crime and racial hate?
Worse yet, are we celebrating the hate of many Afrikans? Our government has failed to restore in 21-years, the pride of being Afrikan to the Afrikan population of South Africa, to restore our history to us; but rather we are still being taught the history of Afrikans/Africans written by the British.
We still don't recognise our own, rather we hear of African foreign nationals (perpetuated by government and media). What is a Afrikan foreigner in SA? there is no such thing. South Africa its self is geographical position within Afrika, it is not even the name of this country.
I hear a lot of White South Africans claiming their African states and denouncing African Americans, from their African identity's.
My opinion is that you cannot claim a racial group, because being African is a matter of pigmentation, it is a racial classification, not a citizenship. Africans in diaspora are Africans and those who occupy African countries, are mere citizens of an African country. The same way African American are citizens of America, but that could be said for White America as well. ( that is a topic for another day). Until Afrikans deal with their truth and their identity, Afrikans will be stuck in limbo.
No one will deny we have come far, but we have a long way to go.
Let us revisit our past, not just apartheid, but the true past and history of Afrika.
I don't only invite South Africans to do this but, all Afrikans, African Americans, African Europeans, Afro-Brazillian, West Indies... All Afrikans. You are much more powerful, far more intelligent, more creative than what history tells you. The truth of Africanism is far more, then barbarism.
As we celebrate freedom day in South Africa, whose freedom are we really celebrating? The 45% of people who are still leaving under the poverty line, those who still don't have homes and running water, maybe the social divide in the country, or the high levels of crime and racial hate?
Worse yet, are we celebrating the hate of many Afrikans? Our government has failed to restore in 21-years, the pride of being Afrikan to the Afrikan population of South Africa, to restore our history to us; but rather we are still being taught the history of Afrikans/Africans written by the British.
We still don't recognise our own, rather we hear of African foreign nationals (perpetuated by government and media). What is a Afrikan foreigner in SA? there is no such thing. South Africa its self is geographical position within Afrika, it is not even the name of this country.
I hear a lot of White South Africans claiming their African states and denouncing African Americans, from their African identity's.
My opinion is that you cannot claim a racial group, because being African is a matter of pigmentation, it is a racial classification, not a citizenship. Africans in diaspora are Africans and those who occupy African countries, are mere citizens of an African country. The same way African American are citizens of America, but that could be said for White America as well. ( that is a topic for another day). Until Afrikans deal with their truth and their identity, Afrikans will be stuck in limbo.
No one will deny we have come far, but we have a long way to go.
Let us revisit our past, not just apartheid, but the true past and history of Afrika.
I don't only invite South Africans to do this but, all Afrikans, African Americans, African Europeans, Afro-Brazillian, West Indies... All Afrikans. You are much more powerful, far more intelligent, more creative than what history tells you. The truth of Africanism is far more, then barbarism.
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