Socially Savant

It’s time black girls mimicked their mothers. Time to put your worries aside. Put your babies on your back and get to work. This shit is waiting on you! Your life is waiting for you! Your household is waiting on you! Lets be very clear its about no one else but you. I tweeted this on the 8 th  of January 2018. I need black women all around me and even online to get up and GO!  This year I have decided to dedicate myself to restoring myself and taking care of what I have to take care of. I am not pushing myself into spaces that don’t need me. I am not interested in going to people who do not need me or vice versa. I have listened to a lot of empowering talks to get my head into this specific head space of working, but not just working, but excelling at what I am meant to be taking care of. ' In my intro I called out black women because we have been conditioned by our leaders for a very long time to think that we need to wait on the government to support and validate w...

All my life I’ve been a magnet to great human beings. I have the ability to gather the right energies and personalities into my life. I have been able to overly exert myself as well at times. However when a high school friend and I reunited over a year ago her husband was so welcoming. From that day onwards I caught a glimpse of the type of white person South Africa needs right now.  Music is universal but the genres not so much. The genres are like the border gates limiting our expansion into one another. I didn’t use music as a metaphor for nothing. Let me tell you what happened to me.  Come December 31 st  2017 and we are knee deep in the fatigue of ushering in New Year ’s Eve. A few drinks down the line and the difference in musical tastes showcased an exchange of words from a guy that had been “alright” with black people being at his friend’s party. He was annoyed that we had requested songs that were hits in a genre that was unfamiliar to him. As we ushe...