#TimeToFrakpas!

Where do I start..?

Over the last few months, I have had a few out-of- body experiences where I step out of myself and my world and look into what the world has become; and it seems that with each passing day, the world becomes dumber as a whole, unknowingly living with one big wedgie riding high up our backsides!

You don’t believe me? We live in a world whose inhabitants have morphed from respecting intellectuals and achievers to according respect to half-clad nitwits all in the name of fashion and modernism, where the definition of beauty no longer contains words like grace, simplicity and perhaps virtue, but is now measured by how long one’s hair extensions and eye lashes are, and of course how much plastic they have injected into their bums, boobs and brains.

...a world where the definition of bravery has shifted from phrases like courage under fire, saving lives at the risk of one’s life, jumping into burning buildings to save people, cats or even material belongings, to “a confused and deeply troubled transgender who is a sorry excuse for a woman in a white bikini, and for which he earns awards and a reality show on a national network!.

We have degenerated from celebrating talent like Biggie Smalls, Tupac, Marvin Gaye, Elvis Presley, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey etc., to celebrating the talent-less talent of a family of ill-bred Armenians who have come to stand for everything wrong in the world we live in today: bad parenting, sexism, making money off no talent or skills whatsoever, kids growing up faster than adults and having no sense of decency, respect or self-worth/achievement; we need to stop keeping up with retards and start celebrating achievement of people doing great things and causing positive change in this generation!

Close your eyes with me for a second and imagine a conversation between a bunch of Martians looking down at the earth and its people… what do you think that conversation would sound like, besides how we seem to get stupider with each passing day? Sometimes, I think that we have yet to discover intelligent life on other planets because we have forgotten what it means to be intelligent; how can we then recognize intelligence when we see it?

While I am not fond of rallying along the lines of end-time predictions, there is no gainsaying that at our current run rate and trajectory, the human race is at risk of being so dumbed-out that we would probably inadvertently trigger some catastrophic event that will cause the end of mankind as we know it.

Thankfully it is not all bad news; with our dumbness comes an increased responsibility for governments to protect us from harm while we pursue our random acts of individual stupidity and sometimes, institutionalized stupidity. So suddenly, it is fashionable and legal to be gay (err, remember the smiting and destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? it was because they got fruity and loved it above all else - lesbianism on the other hand... most men can identify with :). While some have chided the US president for pushing this agenda on his recent visits within Africa, and the matter-of –fact responses he received from African leaders on what our immediate priorities are, the truth is that the supreme court upheld decisions and as the number one citizen, it is imperative that he ensures the safe conduct and passage of all Americans who choose to be happy, fruity and gay around the world. Institutional stupidity that promotes the shooting of unarmed civilians to death, by police, for wielding toothpicks, handkerchiefs or for just being black in the wrong place, state, and time.

Let’s not digress from the matter at hand. I feel that if we are to survive as a race, humans need to get back to being human and getting our priorities straight, we need the step back adjust our hips, look to all sides (to make sure none of the Martians are watching), and have a good o'l frakpas to reset our senses!

It is time to get back to all that is good and sensible, decent and sweet, humane and sustainable. While I am all for black equality (even supremacy on account of what we have given to the world in knowledge, skill and strength),  and an advocate for #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter, I cannot but wonder if the police are simply not a reflection of the society they come from/live in? It is unlikely that a smart society will produce a dumb police force... 

What happened to the strength of character of the black person who was proud and confident and respected? MLK and his generation? Today it is all about the #thuglife, #twerking, and duck-face-selfies, black on black violence and sagging pants, I’m black and I don’t even respect you, how do you expect to command respect from white, green, blue or pink cops when even at your best behavior and in your best get-up, you look like an irresponsible stoned thug?! #TimeToFrakpas!

The time to save our generation is now, less texting, more reading, less unproductive hours on social media, more inventions that add value to lives, less public display of cleavage and nudity, more self-respect, self-worth, less rudeness and disrespect from teens and kids on account of more corrective slapping, whipping and the like. Don’t get it twisted, I am not saying we are all stupid, I am saying that we are all at risk of being buck-smack-dumb if things do not change. #TimeToFrakpas!

Definition of terms (just in case)

• Frakpas: this comes from the sound that’s made when you pull an elastic material out of your butt cheeks (wedgie) and release it to the sides. It is pronounced fra-kpass (like jack-ass)!
• Wedgie: "an act of pulling up the material of someone's underpants tightly between their buttocks as a practical joke" usually cutting off the supply of blood to the brain leading to dumbness in the long run.
• Martian: aliens from the planet Mars

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Wikipedia - definition of wedgie

Et tu Themba?

Every now and again we are reminded of how random acts of ignorance and unchallenged stupidity can cause simpletons to act out an alternative reality. As I put fingers to keyboard (not pen to paper) I am ashamed for the average “club-wielding” South African and at how the misguided utterances of King Goodwill Zwelithini simply reawakened a near-retarded sense of entitlement among a select majority. I am even more ashamed of those who have a chance to speak up and end this madness, but who feel that is it is not in the interest of their political future to intervene. 

Quick history lesson; at the collapse of the apartheid regime in South Africa, within the native black communities a few schools of thought emerged. School 1 or the first group who saw the opportunity to change their lot and chart a new course for themselves and their families. This group focused on getting the right qualifications to ensure they advanced, quickly on the socio-economic ladder.  Today, they make up the middle and emerging middle class; they are restless and hungry for success; and we all know a few of them! 

Then there is School 2 or the second group who have an entitlement mentality; they are the uneducated/semi-educated critical mass who still live under the illusion that the South African government and the ANC owe it to them to basically breastfeed them out of poverty and penury. They have little or no skills or do not see the need to acquire any. Interestingly, to them, it is their right to drive fancy cars, dress rich, and have the prettiest girls and the most modern cell phones, hence they resort to armed robbery, rape and other atrocities in a bid to show to society that they are disgruntled and deserve better. These are the Almajiri of modern South Africa. 

Then there is the third group: School 3; a hybrid of one and two, this consists of individuals who seek to improve their lot, but who also feel a sense of entitlement based on years of repression. They are the lucky class who have benefited largely from BEE initiatives (Black Economic Empowerment).  They are in positions of influence (some well deserved while others simply blacked their way to the top – no offense meant). 

It is with this backdrop that one should review and consider the 2008 attacks and ongoing xenophobic attacks being perpetuated by the Second Group on mostly harmless hardworking individuals who just happen to be working and contributing their own quota to the development of an obviously ailing South Africa. 

From the interviews videos circulating on social media, we can summarise the grouse of simpletons as follows:

They are poor and impoverished and lack the basic means for subsistence

• They are poor because they have no job
• They have no jobs because of foreigners
• The foreigners are hardworking and more competitive and seem to be taking up all the opportunities that should be the exclusive preserve of school 2 South Africans
• Fueled by the perhaps misguided and misinterpreted utterances of King Goodwill Zwelithini, if they killed all the foreigners, they will suddenly have an abundance of jobs and opportunities

When you think through their logic it is clear to me why they are where they are! There is a saying that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat its mistakes.

The 1972 Ugandan Experiment: 

In August of 1972, Idi Amin ordered the Asian/immigrant minority out of Uganda; at the time, “the Ugandan government claimed that the Indians were hoarding wealth and goods to the detriment of indigenous Ugandans and "sabotaging" the Ugandan economy.  Indians were labeled as "dukawallas" (an occupational term that degenerated into an anti-Indian slur during Amin's time), and stereotyped as "greedy, conniving", without any racial identity or loyalty but "always cheating, conspiring and plotting" to subvert Uganda. Amin used this propaganda to justify a campaign of "de-Indianization", eventually resulting in the expulsion and ethnic cleansing of Uganda's Indian minority. This expulsion of an ethnic minority was not the first in Uganda's history, the country's Kenyan minority having been expelled in 1969”. (Wikipedia)

Clearly, besides triggering a wave of xenophobic/barbaric attacks, the expulsion achieved nothing; instead, the businesses left behind were mismanaged by Amin/his cronies and their friends; within a few months, it was clear to all that the problem was with the Ugandans and not the seemingly smarter Asian minority.

The simpletons in the second school of thought, in their murderous rage, believe that the expulsion of the foreigners (limited to the Black foreigners, who have now become their sworn enemies) will start an automatic chain reaction that will up-skill, up-place, and up-shift them from their current socio-economic subset, without any effort on their part.

More disturbing, King Goodwill Zwelithini has missed several opportunities to calm his subjects, denounce the violence, and explain in rational terms the potential of their misguided actions;  I kinda wish there was a Jega for every misguided Orubebe on the planet.

As I write, I cannot but wonder, where will these simpletons draw the line? Let us imagine that through some stroke of evil genius, all the foreigners are expelled, and a few months on, they still remain unskilled, jobless, and hopeless, who will they turn to next? The Chinese who are taking over the construction sector? When all the Chinese and other Asian migrant-worker groups have been expelled, what next?

Ah yes, they must turn their attention to all non-black south Africans along the social pecking order; since for all intents and purposes, they are all foreigners! With all the Whites, Indians, Chinese, and all non-South African blacks gone, guess what….  The simpletons will someday wake up to realize that nothing has changed; same shanties, the same issues, and no capacity and capability to generate income and improve their lot, time for their masterstroke!

Attack all the Colourds (oh yes! Colourds foreigners too in the larger scheme of things), and then attack and murder the black educated middle class, and hope to usurp their jobs, roles, titles, and material possessions.

With the government of South Africa remaining passive and lacking the political will to take decisive action, the simpletons will now rule over south Africa, run the businesses to the ground, cripple the economy and eventually turn on each other, catapulting towns and cities back into the blackest days of apartheid-level suffering.

At this point, after a successful uprising, after everyone and anyone else has either been expelled, killed or imprisoned for taking the jobs and opportunities, perhaps we will witness the first ever nation state of street urchins, thugs, rapists armed robbers and pillages; still poor, still without jobs, with a shattered/crippled economy and with absolutely no hope for the future, who will the simpletons turn to/on next?

End the violence now!

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