A Rainbow Nation: Our Fantasy

What do we pray for every night and morning?

What have we listed on your wishlist?

What are your aspirations and dreams?

What are you doing differently?

What are you teaching your children (not just biological)? And most importantly is the question: “Who are you?”

Once you answer this and some the honesty-seeking questions you might be able to realise just so much in your life including your view on race.

Race has been very fragile a topic.

Racial matters are now (or might have been since the days of apartheid) much alive and people are not talking about but acting upon.

Why do we always act upon than do some talking? I strongly believe it is time we addressed these issues than writing useless and pointless open letters and sharing our racial illnesses on social networks like some people have done.

We cannot be a rainbow nation really without having conciliated before.

A rainbow nation has sadly been a fantasy as we have not realised it 21 years after the democracy.

Reconciliation cannot be shared if we haven't understood what is it that we are suffering from, what has hurt us and pained us.

It is only when, black and white, people come to realise that the only thing that can truly liberate us is the TRUTH before reconciliation.

Knowing the truth and living it.

Most of us are denying the past but we talk of it as if only one is to be blamed and the one to be blamed is the black man.

White people need to start to be honest with themselves and try to meet black people halfway in order for us all to reach some kind of reconciling.

It cannot only be black people who come about forgiveness when they had been the ones who experienced all the trauma which was inflicted by apartheid and those who designed it.

Now, it is time for us to talk.

We need to create platforms similar to the Truth and Reconciliation programme but that will have a broader and positive impact in all parties not just for a few.

We need the truth. We need honesty. We need to forgive. And we need to realise our rainbow nation.