Socially Savant

We are losing great black men daily. We are facing tragic headlines on a daily basis. Black women are wearing tragedy on their faces and this time not as a mask but as a mood, a mode and state of being. Real black affectionate and present black men don’t get the right credit, and their appreciation or acceptance only appears once they have tragically let us. We have men who are not looking for glory or shine, but when we see them we criticize them for showing their families affection. Fathers who kiss their daughters on the lips are alienated and seen as paedophiles. When all they are actually doing is grooming their daughters to feel comfortable in their own skin. They are teaching their daughters how to respect themselves and know when its real love and when they are being played by the opposite sex. However we drive home on the negative energy surrounding these black men. I look at the late Nipsey Hussle and now the late Basketball legend Kobe Bryant. Both these men are blac...

To be a daughter is a daunting task. The expectation of how you will turn out as an individual are larger than life. What the family, parents, siblings and society expect and require for your life to be is sometimes the greatest task and job you will ever have to embark on. Frustrations run high and balancing all this is sometimes something we desire to run away from. But not only on how to meet expectations but also how to meet them ahead of them being made publically known. Meet them without them being asked of you. To be there on the exact hour is large and too much for us at times. If I were to be so brave as to say being a black Zulu female that is jobless and childless the expectation is that I have ample time to support others since I have so much time and resources, it’s also slightly an insult to hear that as a childless woman you have failed. So why must you be let you loose from having adult tasks. Culture is almost set up to choke us as women. Something or ano...