F*** racism. F*** the pigs who killed Andries Tatane. F*** the AWB. F*** racism. We are all wild animals meant to live free.'F*** capitalism. F*** fascism. F*** this f***ing wage slavery graveyard shit. 'F*** domestication. F*** Malema. F*** the state. F*** the petrol economic growth on a finite planet. This is the only f***ing planet we have'Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042448/Newsreader-Mark-Esterhuysen-sacked-using-F-word-13-times-live-air.html#ixzz1ZFRiMZhA Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042448/Newsreader-Mark-Esterhuysen-sacked-using-F-word-13-times-live-air.html#ixzz1ZFCO5WmY
Awake the sleeping masses
I was driving on the N1, listening to other DJ’s praise and criticize Mark and I realized that he was indeed a strong individual. How long has it been that I stood for something? At that moment I noticed the ten thousand people around me, doing 40kmph, blankly staring at the break lights of the cars in front of them. A police van swerved into my lane, across a solid white line and cut in right in front of me. What could I do? It was police after all… It was transporting people in civs. No sirens. No lights. But still this driver decided that he may break the law as he sees fit. No outcry of injustice. We are ignored like children because we cower like children.
Open their eyes.
When you finally realize that there is a person in the vehicle next to you then it becomes a nightmare. What would you normally do when meeting someone for the first time. Wave? Smile? Do you walk up to them and shake them by the hand? You simply ignore them. Deny their existence and then wonder why the mass injustice is the land is being ignored. The reason is because YOU can’t do anything about it neither could he or she. Not even Mandela could do anything about it. I am weak because I refuse to acknowledge the people around me.
Arm them.
As I rolled down my window to greet the man in his Corsa, I faltered. My conviction faded. I feared everything. Could I walk into a place and risk my life, career, comfortable life style for merely saying what I believe in? It’s easy to test surely. Walk up to a complete stranger and say “Hi.” Roll down your window and shout it. Wave. Smile. Don’t text. Don’t blog. Don’t sms your parents to tell them how much you love them. Don’t write “I love you from x” on a piece of paper and leave it under her chair. Take a chance. We are silent because we don’t know how to speak.
Believe in them.
He ranted. He risked it all. He shouted at the world. Do you know what the result was? He was heard. At 1 in the morning. On the internet. Around the world. I we could all stand together and show some small part of the courage that Mark did, we could rock this world.
