Who is fooling who?

 So, it has now become our tradition that when we fail to realise our own failures we start blaming the youth for our errors.

The Black youth is screwed and if we fail to awaken at this time, we will forever lament the opportunity that would have passed us by: the opportunity to correct the wrong. Most Black children continue to be taken care of by their parents' television sets, while both parents are out there, working. Many Black women continue to work as domestic workers for white people.

A Black woman wakes in the wee- wee hours of dawn and prepares to go to work. She leaves her home before her children awaken and returns much late into the day, tired and shooting straight to bed. During the whole day that she works, she takes care of her madam's children; washing their clothes, feeding them and teaching them how to behave among other people. She instills discipline in them so that when the madam returns from her own job, her children are well-fed, they are clean ad their manner of behavior has altered a bit. Gradually, this improves until the youth is grown and can now take the good manners further out into the world.

The Black woman whose work it is that sees this youth into this state, is happy to be told that her job is well-done and that an increase is due her way. She returns home with this good news to find her own children asleep and she decides against waking them, considering the late hour. On the morrow of that day she will again take the 05h00 train to the white woman's home. Here, as her kids wake to prepare for school, they feel no disappointment from the absence of their mother to prepare their uniforms and lunch boxes and morning kisses and daily guidance, because they know their mama is at work.

Instead, they turn on the TV set before going to school. They are faced with various challenges at school and need somebody to speak to but mama is not there, she is talking to the kids of the employer, totally oblivious to the realities faced by her own child. So our sisters and brothers are therefore the only babysitter for this kid is Takalani Sesame and whatever else is out there on TV. Mommy returns tired and carries gifts and toys and we are happy because we can behold with our eye the fruit of mommy's labour.

Because mommy grooms the white kid into someone of respect and honour, her work is admirable but the realistic result of such labour is that she has invested little time to groom her own children and thus their upbringing is unlike that of a white kid.

Our kids are TV addicts because of this notion.

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