Commentary

  • Bring White friends to melt black hearts

    Bring White friends to melt black hearts

    Trump’s attempts to leverage false narratives about South Africa, reminiscent of previous foreign encounters, emphasizes the significance of debunking lies surrounding issues like land redistribution and crime. Read more

  • Wassup America? Ya’ll crack me up

    Wassup America? Ya’ll crack me up

    Reflections on the absurdity and chaos of contemporary American politics, particularly under Trump, highlighting media complicity and societal decline, while noting the world’s laughter amid a serious crisis. Read more

  • A corporate lie

    A corporate lie

    I was once a leader…or so I thought. My corporate bosses told me so, and as a manager leading a team of project coordinators, I was expected to believe them. They told me that I was an essential cog in the wheel. I was also expected to follow the corporate line by convincing my team Read more

  • Indoctrination Successes and Failures

    Indoctrination Successes and Failures

    … I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted… Read more

  • Your lips, my lips, Apocalypse

    Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music.And death a note unsaid. –Langston Hughes Cigarettes After Sex is a pretty cool name for a band. I was blissfully unaware of their existence just over a year ago until I stumbled upon Falling in Love from their second album, Cry. I’ll Read more

  • The democratic dream: you have to be asleep to believe it

    There was a time when I truly believed that voting was a right, a privilege, and a civic duty. I used to think that voting made a difference and led to change for the better. It took three decades of bitter disappointment to disabuse me of that naive notion. I don’t vote in political elections Read more