It was after
a heated conversations that I started writing this story, even though I had a
lot to write about a bit of research was to be done. I had to make sure nobody
gets offended or feel attacked in any way possible, be politically correct
& only Google could help me with in-depth information on whether it is the
first time the topic is used or not. Yes I know I could have used another search
engines to get that information hence with the on-line search trend, “if Google doesn't know it then it doesn't exist” I had to confirm & conclude the
argument we had as friends. I was surprised to find that I made Google look
dumb with the title of this piece, it had nothing to give but suggest the
opposite & referred me to the similar argument that went as far as Facebook
and became a page. I got Google all confused or should I say my search got
Google all confused.
I know
almost everyone reading here will ask themselves what exactly was the argument
between me & my friend all about, or even go to as far as concluding that
we were discussing racism. Frankly, it doesn't really matter what we were discussing but how we got to the topic. It was about Nkandla’s Corruption case
& the advice given to the RSA President by Thuli Madonsela to pay a portion
of it back, my argument was he’s a Blackman & we can’t expect him to steal
& pay back when he refused knowing anything about it in the first place. I
was just saying to my people that the biggest thieves in the world are the ones
running the very same Justice system that guides us, be it they are black or
white. Yes I know the ANC’s Jacob Zuma & his regime stole more money than
the Mbeki’s, Mandela’s and most definitely De Klerk’s. Then everybody started
saying that “white people stole our land” and I had to excuse myself from the
conversation realizing what I had just started, but then someone said that I
hate my own race (blacks) implying that I hated myself also. Then in the heat
of the discussion my closest friend started saying things like even Google is
racist, he suggested that we search for “WHITEMAN STOLE A BLACKMAN’S CAR” and
see what the results will be.
I hate
losing in any argument hence I lost this one without even saying a thing
because Google couldn't give us a single case, Yahoo, Bing and the other search
engines were kind of empty. I had to swallow my words “If it’s not known by Google
it doesn't exist”, mainly because they were right on Google Search and it had
nothing to offer for me. I don’t want to offend my fellow Black People hence
they should start writing about what they see & what they saw, like a
passer-by who referred us to an article from Business Insider about the social
conducted experiment they conducted with two actors who acted as thieves (a
Blackman & a Whiteman) where they had Simple Misfits (You Tube Video Channel). “Depressingly, stereotypes
persisted. After half an hour, many people, including a police officer,
completely ignored the white "criminal." But the black man ended up
in handcuffs within two minutes” that was one line from that article & they
also had FBI statistics from 2011 to support their notion.
According to me when I read the article I realised that we’re all racist in our
own way and racism is not a personality hence a phobia, we react in different
ways to different fears/phobias and we should treat xenophobic people the same
way we treat those who suffer from Claustrophobia & Acrophobia. They need special attention and I
just did my part by writing this little story with no taste or direction, my
point was for those who ever get to discuss the same argument again to refer to Google and get something.
No matter
you are a Whiteman or a Blackman, maybe a Brown-man or a Yellow-man we should
be together as one. We will all be buried in the same soil that we step on
irrespective of race, or maybe we should ask those earthworms who taste better?
There we go...
There we go...
