What Has Become Of Our Youth?

We are growing up in a society that has NO respect for self and others.

We are growing in a society that has no respect for culture, tradition and most importantly, no respect for elders...  I am not trying to make a generalization here, I am well aware that there are many people who respect themselves, their culture and tradition and the elderly, but I am speaking of the ones that don’t. Why don’t they? And what happened in their life that they don’t see why this is wrong? Western influence? I'd like to believe so....

30 years from today I see a country that is filled with black folks  that have lil respect or no respect, i see our culture disappearing into thin air because we have chosen to live like white people, do as they do, forgetting that they have maintained respect for their beliefs, customs etc, but hey we still wanna be live them. 

As a Zulu man, i have grown into a culture that preaches respect as one of the main survival strategies in life, other tribes as well have grown the same, but now we have chosen to disregard the way we were brought up and live like the Jones because we now believe that our culture is outdated. White people tell  us that your culture is outdated  and we agree, Instead of defending your culture you oppose it.

I feel sad for our humanity every day and maybe I am making too much into this but am I? I feel sad every time i see a 18 year old not being able to read or write his own language. I feel sad every time I see a young man disrespecting an elderly man on the streets,  When did respect for the elderly stop? What has happened in this young man’s life that he wouldn’t allow an elderly, frail, woman to get in front of him in line. Why did it anger him so much? This literally brings tears to my eyes.  

 The western civilization has taught us that slaughtering a cow for a certain ceremony is barbaric. BARBARIC...and because they have said so we see fit that we must abolish our way of life and blend in with their way of "civilization"... 

Our black youth serves the white man well--he represents, speaks for and defends the white man. The black youth has been  designed to influence white opinion on the black man. The white man has local tools, national tools of our young black youth,  because he “speaks well”, he doesn’t sound like others, the fool smiles and agrees with white man, the white man tells him that his culture is barbaric,  the fool smiles and agrees with the white man.

400 years later we see the real truth of how the white man brainwashed the black man, kept him ignorant of his true history, robbed him of his self-confidence. “The white man is interested in the black man only to the extent that the black man is of use to him.” In our own country we have been relegated to second-class citizenship, because our youth has lost all respect.

Why not change all our surnames to "X"? Because we have little or no identity left.

A great man, Malcom X once said: " We must learn to become our own producers, manufacturers and traders; we must have industry of our own, to employ our own. The white man resists this because he wants to keep the black man under his thumb and jurisdiction in white society. He wants to keep the black man always dependent and begging--for jobs, food, clothes, shelter, education. The white man doesn't want to lose somebody to be supreme over. He wants to keep the black man where he can be watched and retarded. Mr. Muhammad teaches that as soon as we separate from the white man, we will learn that we can do without the white man just as he can do without us. The white man knows that once black men get off to themselves and learn they can do for themselves, the black man's full potential will explode and he will surpass the white man. 

We are a generation that buys the most expensive clothes and cars and eat the cheapest food. 

Never forget where you come from....