Current Bible verse.

16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall propser; and every tongue that shall rise up against thee in judgement thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

ISAIAH 54:16-17

Monday, April 03, 2006

Case of mistaken identity( or is it really?)

Yesterday I missed church coz l forgot to change my clock and woke up quite late for the service.Later on during the day l called a friend to find out how church was and one of the first things she told me was that a fellow church member , umuntu oqamuka kwelakithi was in church , but she had come alone. Her son was at home recovering from an attack , and son is almost half blind in one eye.
Got a lil bit lost and asked the frendado to chachisisa.She said the cops had mistaken her son for someone else and they beat him up so bad that he hardly had any sight left in the one eye.The son, is just a quiet person who is all serious abt his studies and just an upright person trying to make it empilweni.
Just before I started doing this blog , I read wat a fellow sister had written, and it got me thinking.Firstly I hope the fellow who was a beaten will be fine, secondly shame on all u parents who teach kids how to be racists then when in public yell at the kid for exposing what u r really made of - u need to check yourselves, and stop being hypocrites
Back to my story , was it really a case of mistaken identity or just another black guy that seemed vulnerable and could easily be pounced on, and don tell me all black pple look alike coz u and I both kno that's a bunch of bulls***.Sengathi wona amaChinese or any other group of Asians abafani.Wat eva happened to asking for ID, and since when did amapolisa have the right to ukutshaya abantu?Yet if it happened in Zim, it would be called violation of human rights, and then poor country will be slapped ngamasanctions, lapha ke, kwenz'wani?
This ma friends happened in Canada, where we r told that there is no racism, a country said to have a strong belief in human rights, one of the most multicultural places that l've ever been to.
Racism exists and countries like Canada and England may try to sugar coat everything and make things seem normal yet who r they fooling really.Now if we get practical, why should the black man suffer, coz of the colour of his skin? whose fault is it anyways, did he ever chose to be black?Then u look at the Muslim or the Jew, oppressed coz of their religion, yet these are the same countries that tell u u have freedom of choice and that u have the right to whatever religion u choose to believe in.

We maybe hated kodwa we r the same race that pple will get out of their way to try to imitate.Ayisibo abelungu who go abt getting tans just to be darker skinned, and yet they hate us.Then again they do such things as breast augmentation, and u name the lists of all the yahoos they do just to be as curvy as the black woman. They get all these face lifts just coz they marvel at the black woman who ages with a few if not no wrinkles at all.Then as though its not enuff ukuthi inwele zethu azikhuli , they will still splash iz'mali ezishisile just to keep up with the fashionable hair styles of the black woman. It seems to me umlungu is quite uncomfy in his own skin

Then u ask y does the black person suffer , answer is simple abelungu ngamahater , they kno ukuthi bangaze bazame njani ukufana lathi they cannot , and as such they want to bring us down , and that is y we get all these racial slurs.Imagine the world without the black person and his inventions like the drum , mbira, marimba , and contributions to society.

lts abt time we realized that there is more to a human being than the colour of their skin.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

it hurts don't it? especially nxa ucabanga ukuthi abakithi suffer constantly for it. my heart goes out to the young man who got beaten up. and I pray for his sanity, and the sanity of his mother, justice is served ngoba bantu kuyazwisa ubuhlungu. i pray he heals well. and that the Lord grants him peace. cause trust if it was me I'd mad as hell.

as for our vanilla counterparts [m being nice...] may the Lord work in their lives....

i feel a combination of pain/anger/desperation and just plain depression. there has got to be more to life than this.

mpenseli said...

it's always the ones who mind their own business who end up being screwed by the system.

uyazi, it's as though there seems to be a "crash" moment every second. ukuba ngumunt' omnyama seems to threaten people. it's a sad and painful world.