The right to think what I want to think

Ok I just thought maybe I should share some of my thoughts on one annoying feature in the news lately. I have been reading a lot late about some "Botes" or some other charector that said she did not trust black people and /or disliked black folk. and she said it in the media which just sent shock waves down everybody's spine, including yours truly.

Of course after an occasional glass of the fermented reg grapes and dried green leaves, one turns to sit down and really think about issues without the outside influence. (becuase after that combination, you can't do anything else).

I started reflecting on some of her statement and wondered how true they were in my life. I have been mugged a couple of time in my life and three three out of five times have been in Cape Town by coloured guys. And after these incidents, whenever I see a funny looking colourd person in CT I always run for cover if I can. I have the inability to walk freely in the streets of Cape Town withou thinking about when its going to happen again and always think that it is probably going to be colourds guys that mug.

When she said the that if there is a black guy at her door, she does not open, I could also relate because I would never open for a black guy given that they came into our house and tied the helper after she opened for them. If I see a white guy chances are, I will open withou first interrogating the man like the CIA.

The point I am making here is a very simple one, the experiences we have shape the thinking we develop. What haapens to us and building up of these experiences happens to shape how we react in the future and how we see people and things.

I might not tolerate the statements that this Botes woman has said but Ido understand why she said the same things given my own experiences. I am sure that so many people wold concur that what she said we have all said...Black, White, Indian, Coloured, Asian or race living in this country. We have repeated the things she said, the only difference she came out of the closet about it.

And untill we all come out of the closet and say it in public the things we say in private we can never really judge anyone who says it. And in any case I though we have the right to think however we want to think and express our thoughts. We express our hatred of the president when he fathers another child and why anyone in this country express what they think.

I personally think government should use such utterances to reflect on the bigger issues that are affecting South Africa, crime being at the top of my mind.