A Brief Lesson on South Africa
Being a Black person usually means that part of your history and reality is invisible to the larger society. I experienced this growing up in a part of Jamaican culture. I say "a part of" because even within Jamaican culture, there's a few different social classes artificially created by slavery. So people from different walks of life didn't and still don't share a class consciousness. So there's still a dynamic of a field versus house negro; and now the poor versus middle class. And certainly Africans in the Caribbean, Latin America, America and Africa still don't REALLY understand each other.
This video sort of helps to fill that gap. Africans on the continent and Diasopa are starting to communicate their experiences with each other through novels, music, art, etc. Here's an example of this expanding consciousness. 'Khayav', from Youtube, recounts what it was like growing up in South Africa.
Posted by Timothy Washington on 2007.12.13 | Original post
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