Black label

So. Hashtag- RhodesHasfallen.  Cool. I guess. You know. *puts on the full armour of God*

Look, I haven’t been keeping up with the protests and round-the-table discussions, but it was a bit hard to miss that he has fallen, so my view is a raw one. Don’t get me wrong though, I am not apologizing for my opinion.

Rhodes has fallen, but nothing else really has.  I feel like there are such bigger concerns going on in this land that could really do with the same amount of passion and urgency that was associated with this statue.  I mean, it would be nice, as young people, to be as driven and united towards other things that could make a bigger difference in our well being.  If we were as angry towards all the other things that desperately beg for our attention, we would be in a much better state.  But that’s my 2 ZARS worth, AKA 0.17 US dollars.  Do you see where I'm going with this?

What I’m saying is, I don’t know if it matters that he has fallen when we still have 21 000 pregnant high school girls.  Give or take.  Probably give. When there are people going to bed unfed? Hey?  When there are people who think I should get up and go to school and then go to work and THEN walk to the taxi rank, and they get to take my cellphone. The one I bought after eight months of saving. Sorry?

When there are men who think they are allowed to say what they want to say to me because I was born with a big bum, but because I’m wearing leggings, I’m asking for the comments.  Or to be raped.  How?

When young girls know the lyrics to Partition, but can't recite their 9 times tables? When there are people who have so much to offer but don’t have the funds to go to school.  When there are kids being stolen on their way home, because someone thinks its okay to just quickly ruin parents’ lives.  When cellphone networks are charging so much for dat... Nevermind.

Perhaps my feelings towards apartheid are not as they need to be.  I know we were dealt an unfair deal, and that the effects of that deal are still very prevalent and obvious even today.  Look at me assuming I'm only talking to black people.  But anyway,  I feel those effects, and they reverberate in my life everyday, but shouldn't larger issues be addressed here?  Illegal abortions killing young girls? HIV perhaps.  Poverty, goodness, poverty.  Or education. In some cases, lack thereof.

Maybe I don’t quite get the real struggle, but the only power I believe a statue has is its compressive strength under loading and its material behaviour.  Ore maybe I'm not a revolutionary and I don’t see the bigger picture here?  The breakthrough? 

I don’t know.

I feel like it has fallen, but there is no refreshment nor reward at the end of the day. Personally.

Alright.  Give it to me.  Tell me how desensitized I am.  I've got my armour on.

Ntsa