BLACK HISTORY
South Africa is well known for icons like Nelson Mandela who amoungst other freedom fighters who fought against apartheid, back then black people stood together in fighting the apartheid system that denied black people the same opportunities that white people had. the system oppressed black people in a way that they were denied equality among white people , white people were superior .
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| black icons fought for black equality and black people where expected to stand together during the struggle. |
Xenophobia Factors
Its sad how that similar system has turned on black on black where our fellow black sisters and brother's who happen to come from other sides of Africa are being set out on light , killed, assaulted and discriminated all in the name of women yes women, houses that they do not even qualify to have, and so called business opportunities. this are all mere excuses that makes South Africans that are xenophobic to fight one of their people.xenophobia |
| families being attacked because they are not from South Africa |
how can people steal jobs where else south Africans have been complaining for years that there are no jobs how can someone who has no to little education possibly steal jobs that do not even exits ,this seems to bother me it makes no sense. burning , murdering and assaulting other black people who only differ from us by nationality and we quick to raise the racism card when white people say or do something that seems to offend us main while we fail to love people that are within our race and we turn around and expect white people who are racist to love us or at least respect us why people are xenophobic
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| black people should learn to love each other. |
I simply say its jealousy, foreigners work very hard in every thing that they do ,they are hard working people who make a living in anything that they offered to do even though they are paid peanuts they appreciate the little that they get and their level of hard work stays the same.I happen to know people that are xenophobic young educated people that hurt people that have the same hair type, skin color including eye color xenophobic attacks strike universities. it shocks me how people think that including myself thought that people that indulge in this kind of behaviors are people that are not educated enough about black history and how same African countries helped South Africans freedom fighters who where wanted by the police back then in the apartheid era to hide in their countries while we where treated like they are being treated now.
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| other African countries helped South Africa during the apartheid era. |
Black people have lost their roots I do not even think they notice that they are also black hence they fight other black people that are merely trying to make a living out of creating their own business opportunities that south Africans turn around and say that those same business ideas that where turned into businesses are theirs .South Africa as a whole has a problem with discrimination if people are not decriminated for their nationality they are either discriminated according to their ethnic groups. black people find it hard to accept people for where they come from and for who they are.its a struggle that we as South African should fight against black on black discrimination.xenophobic attacks because of jobs
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| we are all foreigners |
which brings me to the issue of skin bleaching amoungst black people,the rate of young women and women in general that bleach their skin increases every month if not every day , we have been brain washed in to thinking that black is not beautiful I once had a short conversation with my guy friend about beauty and I asked him a few questions about skin colours and what he sees as beauty I was not surprised at all by his answer, he said to me that dark women are not pretty and that you need to analyze them before you could see beauty in them. the rest of the conversation is obvious he likes light skin women as opposed to dark skinned .women are not proud to be black enough they some how see the need to make their selves lighter , this forms another issue that we have to fight with, how ca we love on others for being black when see the need to change our selves in being light skinned even if we were not born that way why black women bleach
black people and up bleaching their skin because they do not want to be black enough.
A video on Zimbabwe s leader views on xenophobia.
Way forward
In order to move forward in fighting xenophobia to stop we first must learn to love each other as black people and accept each others differences. xenophobic attacks are totally unacceptable we as south Africans need to unite together in fighting this cruelty called xenophobia all Africans lives matter .
school children are also affected by xenophobic attacks they fear for their lives as they are known by their communities that they are foreigners. schools should be a safe place for all children that attend it. xenophobia should stop and i plea to people that are xenophobic and are reading this to please change their minds sets on how they see people from other countries
