The Black Shirt

Started from the ball of fur, I rolled into a cloth

Without any color, without any identity, I made it clear..

Got sewed into brilliance, and a few struggles

My journey into tech as a black kid from the township.

lets go back to where it all began…I am a 23 year old computer science graduate, Born and grew up in Soweto, the biggest black township in South Africa, I experienced all the struggles that young black people go through in a township…

There’s a difference in intent between the hypothetical essay you pose (and I find working in hypotheticals to be shabby argumentation). As I don’t want to take the time to provide an entire back story of the complexity of my beliefs on the matter (the matter is not just black and white as well all know), I don’t *personally* believe that pitting…

I am a beautiful kind of black.

The type that doused the heavens with diamonds in its night sky. The kind that realises that despite the heartbreak, there is an endless stream of love within her to create a universe in the soul of others.