LINDIWE

The parents of Black millennials and Black Gen Z’s are usually parents who apply traditional African culture to all aspects of the home. With tradition constantly being applied, the topics of mental health and perhaps more contemporary topics of discussion may be viewed as taboo and may not be given the same reception as more favourable topics like finding a husband or a good traditional girl.   I think the narrative of hypersensitivity and the negative connotations which comes with it can sometimes blur the line of when someone is joking in retrospect to when they’re being disrespectful. We once lived in a time when it wasn’t deemed as derogatory to call homosexuals the f word, nor was it considered overly racist to do blackface on national television. The SJW’s of the world have rubbed people the wrong way which has led to Gen Z’s and millennials being labelled as the ‘snowflake generation’ and said generations not being able to ‘take a joke’. The reality of it is that we’ve be...

When Cardi B said, ‘bitches be pressed’, she wasn’t mf lying. Bitches be PRESSED, but bitches be pressed about the wrong things. Since the BLM has caught serious media attention, and the racists have been exposing themselves, I’ve noticed that people really don’t like it when they aren't met with silence. Everyday why is it race relations but did you check yourself before you wrecked yourself? Black lives really rattle people, inject iiiittttttttt !!!!    People don’t like it when you don't comply with ignorance. People don’t like talking about racism because man "dont see colour". People don’t like it when Black and Brown people are talking about the never-ending oppression that we’ve had to endure through no choice of our own because “we’re not our ancestors”. All this ignorance and complacency brings me to re-introduce the town I live in and the obtuseness it’s almost always escorted by. This town has a very prominent community page on Facebook which is mostly us...