@_ThembekileT They're fans of the show and so is Samke because the 20 years comment was unnecessary and random for someone who's isnt yet oart of the family
The hardest pill I swallowed this year was realizing that you can feel completely alone in your lowest, and time won’t slow down for you, days still pass, people still laugh, life still demands things from you. No one stops to ask if you’re okay enough to keep going. So you learn to stand for yourself, even when your legs are shaking. You learn to be your own voice, your own support, your own reason to keep breathing. It’s a hard truth, but it stays with you: at the end of the day, when the noise fades, and everyone else is gone, the only person left to root for you is you
The owner of a pitbull that had mauled an eight-year-old boy to death is set to be sentenced in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court today. https://t.co/EVddgkZK6t
Women are out here sharing live locations, checking the backseats of cars, and holding their hands over their drinks. Men are doing 3 hour podcasts about how unfair it is that we don't smile at them. The disconnect is fatal.
@Lindokuhle_Mash@SilumaKhanya Like her making all these statements now is just useless because she failed to answer something that was said in her presence, to her face 😒
@AnelileGibixego The time when Musa tricked them to meet at a restaurant under the disguise that they were separately having lunch with him,maCele was so cold towards maK. I get sad everytime I come across that vid on tiktok
@runyararom@PhutiPela But they don't hate her. She consistently looks down on them and distances herself from them. They're simply getting on with a program she initiated.
I don’t even think this is enough, hearing that word from a white persons mouth regardless of intent puts Black people on alert for danger or harm.
They used “offensive words” as a catch all not really addressing that Black people usually hear that word in dangerous situations.
Tourette Syndrome campaigner John Davidson issued a statement after his racial slur at the BAFTA Film Awards:
“I appreciated the announcement to the auditorium in advance of the recording, warning everyone that my tics are involuntary and are not a reflection of my personal beliefs. I was heartened by the round of applause that followed this announcement and felt welcomed and understood in an environment that would normally be impossible for me. In addition to the announcement by Alan Cumming, the BBC and BAFTA, I can only add that I am and always have been deeply mortified if anyone considers my involuntary tics to be intentional or to carry any meaning. I have spent my life trying to support and empower the Tourette’s community and to teach empathy, kindness and understanding from others and I will continue to do so. I chose to leave the auditorium early into the ceremony as I was aware of the distress my tics were causing.”
A month after I first met my wife, she flew from Paris to Valencia to visit me. I wasn’t at the airport to pick her up. I’d asked if that was okay and she said yes. I didn’t know it was actually a big deal to her.
2 months later I took the train from Amsterdam to Paris to visit her there for the first time and she commuted an hour by metro just to meet and welcome me at the train station.
I never needed to be told again.
Two years later we got married, moved to Nancy, and she got an internship at Baker & McKenzie Luxembourg. It was cheaper to keep our French apartment and have her commute by train. She returned every evening at 8:11pm. I was at the train station to welcome her every single day.
I kinda agree some men aren’t worth the asking. But men are not mind readers.
Find someone humble enough to hear what you want, and respond. Then show them what love looks like and watch them learn your language.
You have to ask. The right one listens. And then you stop having to.
We heard Nandi loud and clear. Her point was that Black men deserve grace because the system crushes them hardest: no money, no government support, 400 years of stacked odds, and constant pressure to succeed.
Our point is this: that same system hits Black women just as hard, often harder. Patriarchy. Single motherhood. Unpaid care work. Higher poverty rates. Sky high GBV risks but when women survive those exact conditions through informal hustles or sex work just to feed their families, they are shamed. Insulted. Called slurs. Told they have no dignity.
So men deserve grace for trying, but women are humiliated for trying to survive? You cannot demand grace from women while denying it to them in the same breath. That is selective empathy.
Grace is not a one way demand from women to men. It has to be mutual. Otherwise it is just another burden placed on the group that is already carrying the most.