My Slums My Core

We live in this life we push and we hustle for an out but while we in it we gotta use and appreciate what we got....These are the slums...they  are our slums and as bad as the conditions are...they still mean life..learning to appreciate starts here. ...this is the core of all tests of life ..this is where we see that the small things in life matter and we learn to embrace..and be grateful ...-The Ghetto

Im On The Ghetto Channel Mode ^^ #Masiphumelele Where Im From

Parliament: Julius Malema ....South Africa Today '.'

So  scrolling down my news feed and I come across an article about what happened in parliament..Julius Malema not wanting to withdraw his comments about the  Marikana incident and how his sadly very stubborn and hard headed personality comes out....

What crossed my path though is one of the comments which I quote went. ..

"Go my boytjie. You are the perfect picture of
the typical uneducated black person that is
slowly killing this country. The anc have the 1
brain cell to hide the fuckupness, but you are
brainless, thats why you go bananas in
parliamant. The world is watching, finally they
will see how fuckup your bread are, then they
will stop have sympathy with your type, then the
sponsers and anti apartheid shit will stop. You
are the person the boer have been waiting for-
the one that will finally show the tru couloures
of your breed."

Now I myself do not agree with the way Malema does things.How can I ? His actions seem violent and pushy and very anger driven. Yes sometimes he has a point and when I say sometimes I don't mean that lightly, but the way he brings it out to people is not the most mature or dignified. I am black and I am thinking this....

What offended me is the guys words about People. He showed clear anger towards black people as a whole. He showed clear rasicm and hate not to mention his use of language that is a clear tickle to the nerves.
I am disappointed and distraught at how he viewed the issue and I can not believe that there is still a person in this world who thinks it is an issue of race rather than an issue of personality,maturity, and mindset.

Julius Malema is racist yes and we need less people like him in the world and more people who can Analyse issues without generalising and spreading stereotypes ...

#WheneverIFeelLike A Sister! !....

My Roots ..Sir? ?

Burnt fingers, smoke coming out of his nostrils ..''you have lost your roots'' ...this is what he said to me...as I walked passed him sitting on the side of the road with somalian street vendors -they were selling hats sunglasses and socks- the lot you get from street vendors in Wynberg ...

 I thought to myself really? ...you managed to make that out just from the way I was dressed...? The piercing on my belly and the black lipstick I wore? ...so I turned round to get a good look at him....I could tell he wished he hadn't said it...but something in him needed attention, it wasn't the first time I met an attention seeking person :/ what's wrong with him???

How could he say that I didn't know my roots just from a glimpse at me when he'd never conversed with me I know my roots but I wasn't going to argue with him

From me I was as african as I could be and that was enough. ...my black lips were an inherited trate from the Xhosa women in the eastern cape who took the ointmenty black oil from their  pipes and applied it on their lips (intshongwe)...my hair a representation of the natural african locks that were red from the rock that was cracked and begotten from the river  mouth

How could you say that Sir!!
Was this from the way I was wearing tights had a belly ring and wore yellow socks and vans?
How is it that I don't know my roots when I can mind my own business and walk passed you without telling you that the drugs on your hand was a bad example for people walking on the streets ..and what a bad role model you are to every kid walking passed this corner. ..

I do not know when or how it is that I lost my roots but as a person who's origins go way back to the times of Nongqawuse and the origins of time I could not be bothered and be told that I had none...

 Even if it ever came down to making a choice about who I am ..I would be the axcact African kid who has in her western ways of self expression and would never look and live under society's shadow!!

No Boundaries :/

To me the world seems to have so much to say about what others do and what others say and we never realise how much we're missing out.

I've never had the same experience as my friends and siblings they all were uptight and never wanted to experience new or start new things ...it was all too foreign too risky and too much for them and whenever I did something out of their norm I seemed crazy!

Thing is they were not as experimental as I am and I feel like these are boundaries set out for them by society.

..what amazes me though is why it is that there is so much judgments around in the first place.

Why should there be such a classification a norm a way of living and why cant someone live the way that pleases them..

...I'v witnessed a whole different generation. ...my generation. ..where black can be white and white can be black and I like it..

I don't leave by rules and boundaries and limited choices and it makes me happy ...and even happier when I realise im not up in anybodies business

living for me should be done without investing and wasting any time looking and criticizing and passing judgement on  what others are doing...

Im from a different generation ..the 199x generation...where we all live instead of survive
Where we feed each other positive stuff and shit . ...... So For Me There are None

#NoBoundaries   #WearWhatPleasesYou

#BeWhoYouAre   #NoPressure :)

#DistilledMoments When You Feel Stuck Or Miserable And All You Can Do Is Capture The Moment....#OneShould Know Though It's Okay To Feel Sorry For Yourself....But Also Learn To Never Dwell On It ...

#Fierce #GreenSocks #Hair!! #BlackLips

So Im new in this whole blogging and bloggers world but I figured why not! ?

Why cant I as a different brown person that I am showcase my style to my African brown creative!! Share my views, show and tell the deep side of being a youth in SA through fashion! !

There was no reason why I couldn't!

Recently I presented an exhibition at the Pan African Market on long street in town. ..the exhibition was merged with a dance piece from a black african group !
I found it overwhelming how many of my African creatives were so supportive and overwhelmingly accepting to how different we all are that I myself was inspired to carry on and see the world through a different sphere #sigh

What I really want to do is showcase the diversity of thee creative to a crowd that will see how much we are just the same..... you will have to be twisted to see it but aren't we just that....Twisted

Somewhere In Town..Different Brown People!!! !

My cat didnt want me to leave the house #TornHoezCreative