South Africa needs to work out how to handle Trump and ensure we have an effective lobbying and messaging operation in Washington, but we cannot degrade our sovereignty or prostrate ourselves in the face of threats. Those who are excited about US punishing us are traitors
@CampherDarren Agreed, not that there isn't socio-political infrastructure for leftist innovation: the Greens, DSA, CPA, SPLC, Robert Reich Institute, Our Revolution. They just have no mental or spiritual fortitude to build national momentum or actually to fight MM, GOP or DNC.
My mother decided she's going gluten free, so I've been mentally and physically taxing myself to accommodate her 3x a day for a week & 1/2 now. Last night I threw down. Cooked a full spread. There's enough for tonight. Won't this woman ask for fried fish and pasta bake!!
My brother's ex works at the filling station close to our house. We were never introduced. My sister just pointed her out. No lie, my brother had this chic pumping our gas for years and didn't let on. That's a level of cold nonchalance you can only learn when you have sisters.
So, yesterday was my uncle's funeral and his kids didn't even know each other. I sat at a table with his youngest, a 16 y/o and his eldest a 45 y/o grandmother. It was wild.
My uncle passed on Tuesday evening. He had nothing and he wasn't a member of any church. Long story short, we need a hall, between Retreat, Ottery and Lotus River.
@CampherDarren It's hard for people to understand class structure and how in counties like ours, class and race are very intertwined. They don't have the perspective, and where you see things from is reason you see things that way.
gentrification will have us sitting on twitter shaming the state of a family home that's being sold for parts.
who lives here? a family, who lived here for many many years and probably fought to keep it moving with the increasingly ridiculous standard of living in the bokaap.
I'm on my third to last shift and my last Friday in the bookstore and it's as if for the last two weeks, everyone I've known in my 10 years of bookselling has made an appearance, it's something else hey. I'm so grateful.