APARTHEID AFTER MANDELA As the global icon of self-service, indefatigable resilience and more importantly equality and justice was committed to mother earth, it no doubt dawned on the world that one of its greatest warriors and perhaps her last fighter against stereotypes and injustice had joined ancestorhood, but it remains pretty obvious and way beyond the fray of sensible disputation that the course for which Dr. Mandela lived, worked, suffered and died for is still a pipe dream, alas, an illusion. Human-orchestrated oppression of humans and deep inequality still rages unabatedly, not only in Africa but even at the boulevards of power in the most advanced and seemingly civilized world. From the epicentre of Mandelas struggle (South Africa) there is still a worrisome trend of racial profiling, there is an ever-widening gap between the rich Whites and poor Blacks. In 2005, a White South African farm owner named Mark Scott-Crossley threw his black employee, Nelson Chisale over the fence into a lions den, (what a cruel way to die?), he was given a life imprisonment and later released. Make no mistake about it, Mandelas struggle was just the tip of an iceberg, after all he only fought inequality in South Africa. Mandela died knowing that he has fought a good fight and won but the battle is still rages with little hope of winning due to the institutionalization of inequality and peoples indifference. Literally, NELSON MANDELA may never find deep rooted peace even as he now rests in peace... * Until Black South African have a very equal right, opportunities and wealth as White South Africans. * Until the Rohingya Muslims of Burma who are being massacred and ethnically cleansed because of their religion and ethnicity can find peace in their homeland. * Until Palestinians are free from Israeli oppression and land theft and get their own country. * Until the people of Tibet are free from Chinese carnage, their exiled leaders and Monks can return home and worship freely. * Until the Sahwari people of Western Sahara are free from oppression by Morocco and get their independence. * Until Native and Black Americans get equal rights, opportunity and freedom, and not getting pretty easy entrance to prison than to college. * Until the Aborigines of Australia who are still living in sub-human conditions in forest caves are given a decent life and opportunities like White Australians. * Until the people of Kurdistan get full rights, opportunities and freedom from Turkish and Iraqi oppression. * Until the Ibo people of Eastern Nigeria gets a true national integration and sense of belonging in Nigeria and live in other parts of Nigeria peacefully without being first and prime targets of violence and deportation * Until all women gets fair treatment, equality at work, marriage and governance and become free from dehumanizing traditions...E.T.C...then the long journey which Mandela started has just begun, so after his death, is behoves us all (all humans) still breathing to continue the fight to attain equality and justice worldwide. We should become the next Mandela rather being mere Mandela spectators and mourners. Dont just celebrate Mandelas life, live the Mandela life. THINK ABOUT IT, CHANGE IS STILL POSSIBLE!!! .................Thank You..................... ......PEDRO PETERs AWODI.......... ..................25/01/2014...........
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:34:33 +0000
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