Lucia and have been featured all through the nation, incomes widespread acclaim.
A while in the past, we deserted the systematic passing-on of our collective humanity. We deserted the educating of our personal HISTORY in any method which could inform us who we actually are, whence we’ve come, and the magnitude of the wrestle wherein we, as aspiring individuals of colour, are all inevitably engaged, to higher ourselves and our generations, in a world which cares little for our well-being.
We additionally deserted the significant educating of our LITERATURE . . . the best worth of which could be to acquaint us with our souls, our internal landscapes, the total spectrum of our human emotion—past anger, greed, contempt, selfishness—towards the Aristocracy, compassion, love, heroism, braveness, empathy, and the dual joys of endeavor and achievement.
We have now since additionally deserted the educating of that type of GEOGRAPHY . . , which alone situates us as individuals within the complicated affairs of a world wherein we stand, absolutely comprehending the roads already trod, and people we should nonetheless journey, if we’re to stay standing tall, on the nexus of countries, overcoming the irrelevance of dimension, understanding the significance of ambition, and the magnificent audacity of situating our proud younger nation on the heart of our personal exceptional universe. We have now furthermore forsaken the educating of that LANGUAGE with out which we’re all idiots, screaming at one another and on the world, understanding nothing, sharing nothing, constructing nothing however inescapable prisons of verbal and emotional isolation.
And so, having deserted these sources and makes use of of understanding and expression, we’ve additionally deserted CULTURE and the ARTS . . . these temples of identification and relevance the place the human spirit passes by means of its personal portals of exploration, self-discovery, understanding, affirmation, and validation. As for CIVICS and ETHICS . . . these too we’ve sacrificed on the altar of DEVELOPMENT, in order that we now
consider ourselves and our youngsters as irrelevant, casually and carelessly conceived, dispensable, little greater than mouths to feed, ft to be shod, our bodies to scantily dress as we forged them earlier than the nice EMPLOYMENT machine.
So, what else ought to we anticipate to see on the screens of our miniature existences, however the cruel flagellation of the kid by the mother or father, the aunt, the elder.
We have now deserted our HUMANITY within the wonderful pursuit of PROGRESS . . . discarding the very mores that make us complete and healthful.
So now we rise, desirous to whip that inevitable contempt out of our personal kids, as a result of there they stand earlier than us, of their self-effacing college uniforms bought with the wages of our prostitution, shamelessly mirroring our barren, uninspired selves.
ANGER AND VIOLENCE are due to this fact our most instinctive responses at any time when confronted with disaster, for there’s little else left to attract on. Besides, maybe, for whipping that recurring self-loathing from our very selves.
