“Burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander! Just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real”-Jesse Williams (Speech on Race at the BET Awards)
Nah guys I’m never one to be complaining about cultural appropriation and shit, but this shit here annoys me! Like can people not like black culture and learn about it, without the foolery?!
Like which Kasi did she grow up in? See, if she genuinely grew up in the townships like that King pie chick then maybe, you know! But gal bye! I am getting annoyed with white people romanticizing black pain and struggles! On a daily we are black, this economy reminds us we are black! Every single day!
‘Black South Africans earned on average only about one-fifth as much as their white counterparts in 2015, Annual household income for blacks stood at an average of R92,893 compared with R444,446 for whites, according to Statistics South Africa’s Living Conditions Survey, conducted once every five years’ according to data published by Statistics South Africa on 27 January 2017. “At the mid-level, a white man in the formal sector earns around R21 700, while his black male counterpart earns more than six times less at R3 612 per month”.
Also for all of ya’ll idiots who go, but ya’ll have a twang though and are coconuts nywede nywede! *rolls eyes* stop being idiots please! This is a requirement they made up, too, it’s not good enough you have the qualification, you now need to speak and act like them too, don’t believe me? Read here–> according to Rabelani Dagada, a Policy Fellow at the SA Institute of Race Relations “black people who are well-versed in English and speak with an accent have a greater chance of earning more, those black people who went to government schools don’t talk with a particular accent and it works against them, which is unfair. White managers want to see young professionals who talk like their sons or daughters and not someone who speaks like their housekeeper. So if you’re black and went to a particular school and you talk like their children, you’re taken care of,” So please spare us! I am tired of the BS! She can leave the stupid broom and go home, where she doesn’t need to get loans to get the capital for the things she wants! *as she responded to someone, who commented that when she fills papers at the bank for a loan she will choose ‘white’ and she said “nah, I don’t do loans”*
This right here (Tweet above) got me scratching my head, guy are you for real right now or are you trolling? What kind? Black people are dehumanized and killed daily worldwide for the colour of their skin and wena you wanna talk about this cultural opportunist as being hounded for the colour of her skin? When will black men tire of seeing white women as inspirational and worthy of their protection? Ya’ll see this shit on a daily in the hood but once a white woman does it, it’s like they figured the codes to everlasting life! Fuck it!
Trust me for us to all get along, it’s great that white people are taking an interest in black life and getting along with black people and I understand the sticky situation our kids are finding themselves in, they’re socialising with white kids and “don’t see things as we do”, they’re a generation of globalisation, internet and cool! *but reality is so are we, I was 12 in 1994 and the same dumb suckers I went to school with, probably getting paid way more than me, coz of their skin tone and working hard to keep my child out of the economy! Ain’t that a shit!* I take serious issues with commodifying my race and culture and playing victim! Like honestly now! My daughter and I had an argument or discussion about this, she was pro and I was against! As I said to her, blackness been for sale for way too long in this country and we are tired! Also her friends must not make blackness a fetish! They must embrace blackness and their black friends the same way they embrace their white friends! It shouldn’t be, “look at me I am cool and I hang out in the Kasi” Do they tell us when they hanging out at a new suburb? Don’t sell me black! So, I should be impressed coz you are white and playing dress up?
I would have been responding to this a bit better had she been like “Getting to embrace my south Africanness” or something!
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