Tina here is not wrong about @PeponiHotel a few years ago, I booked a trip to Shela & decided to have lunch on the terrace. When I suggested to my host that I was planning to go there, she was hesitant but would'nt explain why. Nonetheless, I sat at an empty table on the terrace.

https://twitter.com/tina_lish/status/1692459858182750561

Shortly, a waiter came to inform me that the terrace is reserved for hotel guests, if I could move to the balcony on the side. I saw nothing odd - as this is common practice in some places. I moved. Had my lunch and left.

Since 2016 when my name first appeared in press concerning my private life, I have done some interviews and turned down alot more than I have accepted. Often my interviews are focused on the work I do in the hope that it educates and empowers others. My argument has always been that my personal life is not news worthy.

Something had not been sitting right with my spirit from #KOT and other Africans on the protests in America. Somehow folks have forgotten that less that 60 years ago we were in the same position on the African continent and Civil Rights leaders joined us in war. It was on the basis that; you are a Black person in the US as much as you are a Black person in Africa. Here our oppression was colonialism. To the world then and now, it was racism. You were considered incapable then as you are now.

21 more days and no real end in sight. A couple of things to remember (notes borrowed from experience): Get something living in your space. Even a plant will do, something you can nurture so that you can refocus.