"Everything has been figured out except how to live.'' Jean Paul Sarte.
Elevation of social status, Gender Equality, Affirmative action, Human Rights advocacies, The notion of everyday cries.The great barrier between the rich and the poor, The great divide between the haves and the have nots.I had a dream that one day, I would see a world where the truth is reconciled, where people embrace their divinity , a place where materialism ceases to consume us but isnt this us?Arent we (human beings) selfish moreover greedy?? What we really seek is a materially consumed culture, a culture that idolises Material things and among other things fame.
Where in the past the word black was associated with evil, something really bad and mysterious.But today the word black no longer connotes evil or dirt but pride and beauty.The popular sayings " black is beauty and the origin of a man's heart is black" It becomes almost inevitable for me to ask why we should seek to be integrated with a society such as this, that thwarts efforts for a particular race to prosper.In our colonial history... The African would be caned or beaten to death or sent to prison for many months if he attempted to shake hands with a white woman or talk to her publicly in a friendly manner even at her own request... apart from taking word orders from her.a new type of hidden superiority complex based on class and race.Thwarting any social integration efforts.It was offensive in the colonial past for a Black, African native to smoke a cigarette or a pipe near a white man or even while talking to him, or TO SIT DOWN WHILE THE WHITE MAN WAS PASSING!!!, The colonial myths of european superiority were to a considerable degree racist myths and Europeans racisms contributed to the establishment and maintenance of a rigid three layers caste system in Kenya with europeans at the top, Asians in the middle and Africans at the bottom.
" As long as the mind is enslaved the mind cannot be free." Martin Luther King Jr.
WHAT GOOD!!
What good is a flower if it cant bloom?
What good is expansion if you have no room?
What good is a twig if it cant sprout?
What good is a voice if It cant shout?
What good is life, If you cant be free?
What good am I, If I cant be me?
Adapted from "Coffee will make you Black"
April Sinclair.
