We are 2 days into another crazy week and we are already in the 4th month of this year. 3 weeks ago we celebrated Easter, the most important time of the year for Christians, as Jesus, our Lord and Savior died on the cross for everyone's sins so that those that believe may have eternal Life. It holds a lot of significance, and it has a massive impact on the future of everyone's lives, whether they believe it or not, or even know of it.
I'm not really here to talk about it, although it does bring up something else I need to talk about.
The idea of the Rainbow Nation was that everyone live together in peace and harmony, regardless of skin colour, religion or creed. This idea is...idealistic in its very nature. It doesn't deal with the realities of either the past or the present, nor history. It cannot exist in a land with leaders that are out to divide the country's people, stoking xenophobia and racial hatred as far as they go, protecting and creating laws to strengthen the divisiveness, so they can pillage and steal tax money and land. This all from hard-working people.
Let's be honest: the Rainbow Nation was nothing more than an illusion. To build the South Africa that we really want, and that is more than just a political white-wash, we all need to work together to build towards improving the lives of others as well as our own. Breaking down one group of people's heritage, while the other builds none of their own, on their own, is not going to help us reach a united South Africa. Killing foreigners for, supposedly, taking jobs from born South Africans, while we as South Africans sit on our lazy asses doing nothing, will only further divide us. The actions of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign and the senseless Xenophobia attacks will kill our dream of a peaceful South Africa. And trust me, it is a lot harder to revive dreams than to work towards them from the very start. South Africans, and especially those that keep causing divisiveness in our country, must take note of this, and stop causing division.
I believe it is time that, instead of listening to racist and xenophobic leaders, we should all calm down, take it slower, throw political correctness out the window, and have a very honest, heart-to-heart discussion about everything we have been avoiding these past 21 years. And then do as successful nations do: put shoulder to the wheel, stop blaming others for our own mistakes, and start building on a truly new South Africa. If we don't do this now, we may not have any country left to salvage come tomorrow.
I would like to finish with a very important quote, one that every Jew and Christian should have written on their heart, and every other person in this country should seriously consider. It is that of the words of God in Exodus 23:9
If you study history properly, without politics or political correctness, you will find that most of us in this country were strangers once. Let's not forget that.
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