Madiba, You Can Go Now!

Tribute to Mandela

Remarkable! You not only existed, you truly lived

Blessed generations to be endowed with peaceful deeds
True greatness is never lost across all times
Through the rough of it all the peace bell still chimed
We walk every day in the shadows of oppression
Weakness of heart you tied down in joyous suppression
They called you Rolihlahla in tribal symbolism
And what a good trouble you brought us in true nationalism
You troubled the trouble to breed precise humility
You broke the back of oppression with crystal simplicity
Our heavy hearts rewind to your remarkable African-ness
All the dark faces have been shown the truest kindness
It’s remarkable the inspiration wasn’t foreign
You twined the mind and heart in a consistent run
We could have picked up guns and spears
But Madiba’s emerged to simplify our fears
We’ve always been trampled on for so much a time
We’ve absorbed immorality and divine crime
But darkness and hatred is what you despised
27 you weathered so simply with no hate inside
Who knew hatred is weakness presented as spite?
You’ve shown that spite and hatred is a weakness desire
Who now talks fondly of your jailors except the stinky mire
Values and virtues the true height and driver of civilizations
If only they become the light for every nation
You’ve shown with remarkable fervor their validity
The African Self is a box full of values quiddity
The ingenious tradition and African-ness unmatched
Generations will smile-in Madiba’s life from scratch
Forgiveness always is what you’ve forever sown
Humility in deeds is what we’ve come to know
Race is only a concept if not an intellectual quest
Madiba, you’re gone but we’re left with a clean path, I guess
Why should we cry when your humility is here?
Why would we mourn when your deeds I hear?
We’ve not built rockets and cars
But Mandela has been ours
You can go now, Madiba!
The life you lived is the way the world should be!

Copyright 2013 Kuirthiy

Savagery, Cowardice or Racism? Australia understood through the conscience of law enforcement officers

The Police and Civilization!

Europeans and people of European descent, and to some extent, the rest of the world, have been taken in by the erroneous notion that ‘civilization’ means skyscrapers, cars, computers, rocket science and everything else that comes with science and technology. You ask anyone and that’s what they’d tell you.

But how civilized is a PhD student who kills innocent civilians in a movie threater? How civilized is a medical doctor who kills his kids to get at his wife? How civilized is a well-known physics professor who coordinates a web of child pornography? We never think about them, do we?

In essence, those who don’t have the materials mentioned in the first paragraph are considered to be outside the ‘civilized world’: primitive, savages!  However, we seem to have forgotten the atmosphere that made or still make all these things possible: the cordial treatment of fellow human beings; the forging of meaningful coexistence; the capacity to know that other people have feelings and needs; the capacity to empathize and sympathize, and the ability to realize that pain in you is as bad as pain in another person. Without these realities, we are just vicious savages with cars and computers!

Anyone in this world knows the phrase ‘POLICE BRUTALITY.’ This is a ghastly sight to say the least. These people, mostly men, treat humans like animals; beating them with no remorse or human compassion. What comes to mind immediately one sees such brutality is: do these officers have feelings? Do they feel anything inside them? Are they humans? Does police academy teach them to be beastly in their treatment of suspects?  Anyone who views these brutal images would be convinced that police officers acting in such a devilish and inhumane manner aren’t themselves humans. They are an epitome of exemplary and contemporary savagery!