Hypocrisy as a STATE OF MIND
It has become so evident to me that we are even further away from even beginning to attempt to build ourselves as a country into this ideal rainbow nation. On paper we have all the potential but when we look at behavior and the political chaos that we are as South Africa, then you think twice,well I do anyways.
We speak of this amazing tomorrow were we are united and grooming our kids into a golden version of ourselves. Where we see piece as a tangible and hatred as a nothing more than just a story. It is sad, yet apparent, to know that as the same nation that plead sympathy and sadness at the hands of white ‘Apartheid’ oppression, just under 30 years ago, we are guilty-less in taking food out of the mouths of our African neighbors through the word ‘Fake Goods’.
We do not all have the same educational or societal backgrounds, given, but we do all know humility and kindness,we understand lacking and being ‘othered’, and to all the non-white South African communities , Oppression. Knowing what we know, from first hand experience, education on history and/or stories of our fathers and forefathers yet we are able to breathe hypocrisy at high pitch.
As a Country, we are fortunate enough to have ‘Freedom of Speech’ but like any other kind of power comes responsibility not an opportunity to oppress, discomfort, hurt or dictate to others.
Like a lot of people who have been following the latest sorry of looting in parts of Soweto I am assuming you have asked this question similarly. ‘Why look supposedly ‘Fake Goods’ … they goods are not good enough to buy but good enough to steal. If this is not hypocrisy then nothing is.
These people who are in the heart of this evil are the very same people who jump to voice out their dissatisfaction with government entities and lack of service from our contry’s public sector when their power goes out ‘Which most poeple do not pay for’ or when the crime rate increases in their neighbourhoods and they feel ‘their kids are not safe’ or even the favourite when ‘Human trafficing is on the rise.
No wrong justifies another wrong but one question we should be asking ourselves is, “Is this who we are building our nation to be? Has this become the new lesson for our kids?”
‘We are poor’ is not an excuse, ‘they are taking our jobs’ is also not an excuse ‘ you are lazy’ ‘inconsiderate’ ‘being a bad example’ and giving South Africans a bad name … that is what you are.
Thank you specific South Africans for trying to build a shameful nation out of us.
