This still happens today? In this day and age? Let's see how far this moves...

in #staywoke7 years ago (edited)

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It's disheartening and terribly saddening to see this happening.
In our history classes, Khoi and San people are praised and one feels sympathy because of the appalling crimes committed in the past.

Africans and the world know this, yet still, an ancient civilisation who have survived suppression, land theft, life-stock theft, women who were raped and children who were abused still persisted to continue their magnificent way of life.
Their practices are studied and revered by millions across the world, and now are being pushed closer to "extinction" - STILL.

The Egyptians who built the pyramids and tombs that baffle scientists today, Mayans whose architecture baffle scientists today, the Ruins and handicraft of Mapungubwe that baffle scientists today, most if not all historians, scientists, archeologists and people with any sense of general knowledge want to go back in time to see how on Earth, literally, they managed to accomplish such milestones.

Now we have and still will for a shockingly short time, have the chance to learn from the Khoi and the San instead of saying a couple decades down the line, "Oh I wonder how they did that? Must have been aliens that helped..."
I try my utmost best not to rant and put people in the introspective mode, especially on social media, but here I will.

In my five years of competing in Model United Nations debating, I've learned about the groundbreaking power that knowledge has. People around the world still don't know about the floods that killed over 1000 people in the capital city of Sierra Leone, people still don't know about the violence happening in Syria, the outright genocide happening in Myanmar but when this directly affects their livelihood it starts becoming part of their conversations, it unplugs the "1st world problems" nonsense they tend RANT on about.

So here it is, my official, letting you know. Letter of notice, for the eviction of the Khoi and the San from MONOPOLY capital, 1st world problems, and ignorance. Live from Cape Town.

If you at least managed to read to the end of this, that's only the first step.

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