09-06-2005, 09:29 AM
Cubs
What hurt me was the fact that a child would aspire to be 'white'.
In that one sentence, that child spoke a million words to me and I had no answer for him.
The fact that the child thought that to be 'white' is something to aim for and achieve. Because of how he views his life fom his position living in poverty, 'white' people are still the have's.
I wish I could show him the thousands of black African's who are now living in middle and upper class suburbs, working in managerial positions etc.
This child needs to be proud of his Zulu culture. He needs to have 'black' role models to build his future dreams upon. He needs to believe in his abilities and not his colour. He needs to be taught that 'if one can believe, one can achieve'.
Poverty does teriible things to people. It robs them of dignity and self worth and that is the cycle that needs to be broken and the children of SA need to be given hope. We will have a generation of children who will grow up without parental support and those children need to believe that they do have a future and that future will rest in their own hands and their own abilities.
What hurt me was the fact that a child would aspire to be 'white'.
In that one sentence, that child spoke a million words to me and I had no answer for him.
The fact that the child thought that to be 'white' is something to aim for and achieve. Because of how he views his life fom his position living in poverty, 'white' people are still the have's.
I wish I could show him the thousands of black African's who are now living in middle and upper class suburbs, working in managerial positions etc.
This child needs to be proud of his Zulu culture. He needs to have 'black' role models to build his future dreams upon. He needs to believe in his abilities and not his colour. He needs to be taught that 'if one can believe, one can achieve'.
Poverty does teriible things to people. It robs them of dignity and self worth and that is the cycle that needs to be broken and the children of SA need to be given hope. We will have a generation of children who will grow up without parental support and those children need to believe that they do have a future and that future will rest in their own hands and their own abilities.