double-helixed uBuntu.
these interwoven veins,
dna,
double-helixed,
microscopic,
binding us, all of us,
together, as one,
species, one race,
human,
me & you
us,
all,
through
this common
shared
truth:
‘I am because you are’*
all of us
together
as one
me & you = uBuntu*
* – uBuntu is an isiXhosa/isiZulu concept that espouses the “belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity”
Ebola & the Prejudices that Lurk just Beneath the Veneer …
call me simplistic,
call me an anachronism,
but,
I detect a faint odour of old – time racism,
as the fear of Black Africa,
of Black Africans,
is camouflaged in haz-mat suits,
and carefully nursed,
fed, ratcheted up,
as the virus mutates,
digging up the fear of those ‘brown folk’,
‘these immigrants’,
‘the bloody foreigners’,
while mouthing platitudes,
to soothe the huddling multitudes,
solidifying the pervasive odour of thinly concealed racism,
and that’s the virus,
already a pandemic,
the virus of embraced ignorance,
of pleasant prejudices,
of the menace of the ‘other’,
the virus of raw, naked racism,
mutating,
sinking its talons,
into pliant minds …
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