Otkriti postovi
I posted this many years ago and I'll post it again because I still think it's relevant. But this time, I have blurred it out because it's not right but the story is very important.
THE SECOND VULTURE:
In the 1990's there was a widely circulated photo of a vulture waiting for a starving little girl to die and feast on her corp. That photo was taken during the 1993/94 famine in Sudan, by Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist, who later won the Pulitzer Prize for this 'amazing shot'.*
*However, as Kevin Carter was savouring his feat and being celebrated on major news channels and networks worldwide for such an 'exceptional photographic skill', he lived just for a few months to enjoy his supposed achievement and fame, as he later got depressed and took his own life!*
*Kevin Carter's depression started, when during one of such interviews (a phone-in programme), someone called in and asked him what happened to the little girl. He simply replied, "I didn't wait to find out after this shot, as I had a flight to catch..." Then the caller said, "I put it to you that there were two vultures on that day, one had a camera".*
*Thus, his constant thought of that statement, later led to depression and he ultimately committed suicide. Kevin Carter could have still been alive today and even much more famous, if he had just picked that little girl up and taken her to the United Nations Feeding Center, where she was attempting to reach or at least take her to somewhere safe.*
*Today, regrettably this is what is happening all around the world. The world celebrates stupidity and inhumane act, at the detriment of other. Kevin Carter should have taken the girl away from that place, which will cost him nothing, yet he didn't. Here is the inhuman posture, "he had all time to take his shot, but he had no time to save the girl's life".*
*Thus, we must all understand that, the purpose of life, is to also touch lives. So are you too a Vulture. In whatever we do, let humanity come first, before what we stand to gain out of the situation. In all we do let's always think of others and how we can be of benefit to humanity, how we can lend a helping hand and wipe away tears. Hence, when we seek knowledge, wealth, fame, skills or even positions, let's think of how we can use it to benefit the people and society at large.*
*Today, there is a lot of poverty in the land, so if our God Almighty has blessed you, be a blessing to others, extend a helping hand to those in need. Remember, you giving, is also a way of appreciating divine blessings, bounties, and favour of God Almighty upon you. Therefore, it is very important that we all should help the poor and needy, the orphans and widows amongst us, so that they can meet their needs. Please don't be a Kevin Carter, be human and think humanity.*
*Beware, we humans are not humans, if we lack humaneness in all we do.*
My message to you is, "DONT BE THAT SECOND VULTURE!"
Took me a while to hear what she said. Honestly, all that blinking had me distracted. Are her lashes too heavy? 👀
If only...
There is so much division in our community when it comes to knowing our true selves from American Indian to African. Especially orgin story and the true history of slavery. We been lied too for years until we get ourselves togther then we can unify together.
Even if Europeans ain’t around
Anymore, melaninated people would still have
That white supremacy mentality….
Even if we shut down the whole system,
The whiteness in us will never goes away….
Black people will act like racists towards their own
With Jim Crow laws, they might think their own
Is not human….they might blame their own
For makin white people disappear….
That’s how bad
Tremendously bad
Our mental illnesses are….
We will still have white supremacy
But with people who looks like us….
And let all the genocides continue….
Slave mentality sustains a black race forever
And that’s the worse…
It’s too difficult to change back
To our indigenous thought
To our own melanin thought
Without any dust of caucasity….
Cos we’re robbed and colonized….
💯✊🏿 ©️ Kai C. 6-11-23
This is the truth. White supremacy will be here on earth.
I would like to share a quote and hopefully it would make you think.
“We cannot destroy white supremacy until we address the internal contradiction in ourselves and in our communities that allow white supremacy to continue to flourish.”
-Runoko Rashidi
Go look him up.
Razonda Lee 😍
