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@saighoe PROVERBS 25:21-22
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will be heaping burning coals on his head and the Lord will reward you.
That is what is happening to her right now. Burning coals 😊
This is serious. But, what happened on Arise News this morning reflects what is going on elsewhere.
If social media, for instance, is anything to go by, the anti-South African sentiment building across the continent is reaching alarming levels and must be addressed.
Many Africans appear to be supporting Mexico against South Africa in tonight’s World Cup opener. On the surface it is only football. In reality, it reflects something much deeper.
Sport is often the clearest expression of public sentiment. When Africans find themselves cheering for a non-African nation against an African one, it suggests that the wounds caused by repeated attacks on fellow Africans in South Africa remain raw and deepening.
If anyone doubts this, they should read the reactions to Julius Malema’s calls for Africans to rally behind Bafana Bafana. The comments are an absolute nightmare. Instead of solidarity, there is anger, resentment and painful reminders of xenophobic attacks. The sentiment is: “It’s the job of South Africans to support their team. We won’t steal their jobs.”
That should alarm every Pan-Africanist. This is not just bad for South Africa. It is bad for Africa.
The African Union and regional leaders cannot treat this as a series of isolated incidents. It goes to the heart of Pan-Africanism and the idea that an African should feel at home anywhere in Africa.
A borderless and prosperous Africa cannot be built on resentment, suspicion and Afrophobia. The lesson from tonight, I suspect, is not that Africans are against South Africa. It is that many Africans are deeply hurt.
And, unless that hurt is confronted, the greatest casualty may not be football, but the Pan-African dream itself.
“There’s a hierarchy in Blackness”…. WoW
In as much as I want to say this is a very silly comment, its nothing but reality. UNFORTUNATELY.
‘imported’ is funny until you realize how much social class and perceived status shape attraction and even what should be normal interactions here. People don’t just date individuals. They often date what those individuals represent socially and less about the men/women themselves.
Also, It’s interesting how people can quickly recognize racism from outside but struggle to acknowledge classism and social hierarchy within their own communities. (At least this post did.)
@Kathymumbi I’m sorry but “imported” is so funny, it made me cackle 😭
The main reason ppl will bring up is the upbringing but it’s also class. “Imported” African men are seen as poor. I know my fellow Black Germans won’t admit bc they know how it looks but there’s a hierarchy in Blackness
@OleleSalvador@GhPoliceService Ah 6th May torrr?? The family wasn’t notified anaa? 🤔
Cos ein sister posted a video with their mum dancing on Mother’s Day