Black Consciousness

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I never lived in the apartheid era, i am a born free so race seperation is not something I've been exposed to but i see it all the time. We live in a democratic state. By right we are allowed to choose our own leaders, a contrast to what was happening in past times.

Its been 20 years of our democratic freedom. Rainbow Nation is the new drug. They keep on popping that shit but don't realise that its gonna take more than just a couple of banner campaigns and free t-shirts to get over the past.

I see with my elders that the hurt is still there. I would sit shocked at the stories they would tell me of the past cause its not what they tell us at school. One of my uncles was shot 7 times and he's still alive today. Point blank when he was at home infront of his family for what? For being black? How do you get over such things and sing and dance along to whatever fucking message they tryna drill into people.

I'm not saying we should start a genocide, kill all white people, that's dumb. But we need to aknowledge the fact that we still far from the vision Mandela had for us. The odds of a black dude like me making friends with white people are like tryna play the lotto. Its either they gonna look at you funny or ignore you not because they racist, no don't get me wrong they far from that. Its just not something that they used to...to put it in modern terms...its akward.

In normal human response, you associate yourself with people that you have similarities with. I remember my first time going to a multiracial school, i was from the hood where everyone around is....well.....black....so i thought like dzam, I'm finally gonna mix with with other races and get a glimpse of what life on the other side is like. Everyone is divided into groups obviously, its high school after all but my biggest dissapointment was what i saw at. The only black niggers rolling with white dudes where acting more whiter than a washing powder commercial. There was a small percentage of people with different races being friends. The bigger picture was that it was whites one side, blacks one side and funny enough no one forced us, it was of our own will.

This goes to show that apartheid left an ever lasting mark in our people. A scar that is passed down from generation to generation

The past is the past, and should be left in the past but i feel that if we can overcome the mental segregations we have in our thoughts and our actions, we will achieve more.

So my new definition of black consciousness...
We don't need one....the day we let go of the past, stop thinking in colour, and reach out to one another, nothing can stop us.

Mzwakhe Z Makubo

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