people saying he wouldn’t do that for her but the greater injustice is that he wouldn’t have to. men get to keep their royal title when marrying commoners. the system itself is misogynistic, forcing women to choose between love and security in a way that men never have to.
Interesting conversation about a fork being found in the kitchen but let's talk about it.
I have run out of words to explain the hatred that many Africans have towards Black South Africans and this is not even a current problem because these are some of the same people who colluded with white oppressors during the apartheid regime.
South Africa’s apartheid architects relied heavily on pseudo-historians who claimed the land was "empty" when European settlers arrived and claimed that black people are lazy. When another Africans use this exact rhetoric, it defeats any purpose of "pan-africanism". As we are people who are still fighting to redress our past, associating with individuals who echo the logic of the colonizer is a compromise on our survival. This is why the ideology of uniting is not feasible because solidarity cannot exist where one party actively undermines the foundational history of the other.
This is also why you see them discrediting any facet of development in our country and attributing it to white people to undermine us while simultanaeously claiming that we are the ones who are "mentally colonized" or whatever nonsense. I will always remind our people that there has always been a deep-seated hatred, envy and resentment but so many Black South Africans are still oblivious to the whole problem. When they show you who they are, you should believe them the first time.
But we also do not address the laughable hypocrisy of their performative radicalism because many of them will strongly ask us about removing White South Africans from our country but they also do not hesitate to tell us that they wish they had the same "white pipo" in their own countries. Once they are inside South Africa, this subconscious desire for proximity to whiteness often manifests as an active collusion. To elevate their own social or economic standing, some of them align with right-wing ideologies, while positioning themselves as a "hardworking" or "compliant" buffer class in contrast to native Black South Africans who are actively demanding systemic transformation.
At this point, we have realised that they will gladly align with white people's talking points to validate historical injustices, quite similarly to what they do to the Black population in America, and actively weaponizing those narratives to sabotage the progress of our liberation.
I remember the hyundai saga and claiming that white people have done more for us than Nelson Mandela among many other ocassions of disrespect which became the final nail in the coffin for me. Watching a Black South African succeed will trigger a passive-agressive reaction that causes them to reach for the nearest weapon available: the language of the white oppressor. Unfortunately, you can't build any healthy alliance with such people.
People can preach about unity for as long they like but the reality is that delineation and drawing boundaries has become a matter of political and cultural survival for our identity.
stopped being terminally frugal and bought a bunch of solid gold jewelry to wear every day and never take off for the rest of my life. And I for real feel like a beautiful adorned angel & the queen of the world. so simple but it totally upgraded my mood & energy
If we didn’t have ears Humans wouldn’t know Sound existed Meaning there’s a possibility there’s something going on Around us at all times ,
We just don’t have the body part to detect it .