Imagine if kids at Morris Isaacson told the brave ones who were protesting being taught in Afrik & Bantu edu on this day in 1976, to stop because of the school’s “reputation”? B/c they felt the school’s image & racist teachers needed to be protected more than black CHILDREN? 
That’s what you ladies and gentlemen sound like when you say stupid shit like that about the women and girls fighting racism in schools today. That they should stop because an inanimate object (the school) is feeling pain but black pain doesn’t matter
I feel like it’s serendipitous that this convo and fight is happening around this time. A time for deep reflection on what has changed in SA and to look even deeper at what has not. The attitudes of many white South Africans unfortunately still mirror those of 1976 ...(cont.)
and it is why even though legal racism has ended, we have a long way to go until systemic racism (and racism in general) is over.
As we go to our schools to examine codes of conduct & rules written before & during apartheid that very much favour one race, I am moved by the sacrifices made but the youth in 76 & commit to ensuring that we will make our schools better, safer & more inclusive for black children
That their sacrifices weren’t for nothing. That they ran so we could fly. We will not stop until black children have the freedoms promised to us to attend school and not experience unchecked racism at the hands of their peers, and of those meant to protect them.
#youthday
#youthday
