nayyirahwaheed-deactivated20180:

to me, there is no such thing as a white african. so the life blood of africans must not only be used as beasts of burden, but also as a means to teach the very people who brutalize them how to be compassionate. this is the illness, right here. this is the disease of racism, white supremacy, and oppression. we are asked to care for our abusers, asked to heal our assailants, asked to offer our lives and our deaths to them. for you to say this, during our mourning, for you to bring this diseased pedagogy to this space is, beyond insulting. we, africans, across the disapora are hurting. yes, you were born in south africa, and are allowed to mourn however you please, but to come here, to tell me how i must feel it, is highly disrespectful. he was african and thus africans across the globe feel his crossing over. we do not need to qualify our ‘africaness’ is order to hold our elders hand and protect his legacy and his walk to the ancestors , and this divisive thing you are trying to assert, about who is who, as africans is more damaging than anything. you as an south african poc have no more right to speak and express how you feel about madiba than i do. apartheid has the same name wherever you go: hatred of blackness. the ‘oppressed’ you speak of are the rightful african people who had their continent brutally taken from them, and the ‘oppressors’ are the white foreigners who came to set them on fire. lets not treat these as benign terms. to you be your way. to me be mine.