#22 Let’s Wrap This Up
I can proudly say that the #WinterABCchallenge is perhaps one of the very few things that I voluntarily went into and saw to the very last. I’m proud of myself for doing that.
#20 Life Changing Event
The reason why I didn’t want to go was simple. I hated weddings. I always thought they were pretentious and unnecessary.
#19 Five Songs That Are Special To Me
My taste in music is somewhat of an acquired taste. I remember my 50+ year old mother telling me I listen to old people music.
#18 “By the time he woke up, I was dying”
Prayed and interceded and did everything religious that I could get my head my head around. I had nearly given up and by the time he woke up, I was dying inside. But he survived-my miracle had been granted.
#17 Let ALL Black Lives Matter
There are about over 2 billion black people in the world. That’s who you are advocating for when you say black lives matter.
#14 “Ukuchithwa Kwempahla”- A Practice From My Culture
I respect culture and tradition- they have not asked a lot of me so when they asked me to help take down my dad’s wardrobe and give it away, I complied.
#13 Should I Ever Be So Lucky As To Meet Mandla N
While we wait for our coffee (because we are meeting over coffee, what did you think? )
#12 21 December 1979
Oppression is so much easier to take and so much easier to make sense of when it comes from somebody who does not look like you or eat your food or speak your mother’s language. When it comes from your brother, your fellow man, it is not only disappointing but it is far more insulting that anything the white man ever did to us.
#11 Five Proverbs In My Vernacular
I think we have managed to rather artistically weave years of anger and resentment and repression into quite the vocabulary.
#10 Please Tell Shonda To Hire Me
Point is somebody should get this message to Shonda. I am placing all my faith in the six degrees of separation. So somebody, work your magic.