The Blackman`s Plight

We black people have a troubling tendency of thinking that thinks are owed to us. This thought I believe  stems primarily  from the fact that we were oppressed for hundreds of years in our native continent and in other parts of the world. It cannot be denied that black people still have it rough, millions are living in informal settlements and poverty is rife but instead of working to take back our dignity one finds young able bodied people sitting ideally by the roadside.

Steve Biko once said " the most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the opressed". He fought for a liberated and non-discriminatory South Africa, he and many other freedom fighters watered the tree of freedom with their blood, it is our responsibility as young people to water that tree with our sweat. one needs to sharpen the most valuable tool that one posseses which is the mind, by doing this we will have no need to see ourselves as victims.

 One may argue that this is all the fault of the “white man” but a wiseman once said we cannot move forward while looking back. The enemy is no longer white people, the real enemy is poverty and unmployment. we need to now fight for economic freedom, that is where our focus should be. Just siting around hoping to get a handout is not the answer, a handout will only fill your stomach for the moment but true freedom will fill the stomachs of future generations.

i woke up feeling rather dejected this morning reason being my current state of affairs is like our government, in shambles.as i scurried along my usual morning rituals i  couldn`t help but to think that perhaps government officials have the same procratinative mentality as mine.my point to all tihis is would you hire yourself to govern the country ?

masculinity part 1

For a long time now I have been intrigued by homosexuality, more especailly male homosexuality and the question can homosexual men be called masculine? wikipedia defines masculinity as possessing qualities or characteristics considered typical of or appropriate to a man.

My subject here is not the flamboyant tpye of gay male  but the  more straight acting gay male, that is not to take anything away from the more feminine gay male, this is simply for comparitive reasons.
I once heard that homophobia was a way of protecting the alpha male structure and that got me wondering if homosexuals belonged in anyway to that structure and if not where do they fall under ?








http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculinity