Whatshot
Through my eyes
Through my eyes
Date: 2017-06-16
So much is being said about global child and women abuse, yet so little is being done to stop it. The Youth Day that we are celebrating this weekend is suppose to make us conscience of how we treat the youth and what can be done to improve our youth's experience growing up in this conflict ridden country-world-planet.
I do not have any advice to give. My youth was a challenge to say the least but it shaped me to be a assertive and tough human being and I do not regret all the negative feedback that brough me on the path I am on today.
I have realised over the years, having brought up my own sons and seeing my friends raising their children that not everyone responds the same to praise and rejection. Being sensitive to young people's emotions is imperative if we want to bring out strong and upstranding citizens.
We have all made mistakes in the past. Moving through those mistakes and making things right is what it is about. Moving through the pain and trauma is what we should all be striving for.
We have all experienced some kind of prejeduce and discrimination growing up. All those negitive emotions somehow shaped our world and our attitudes to our fellow men.
When we track down our internal conflicts, so many of our personal damages originated from comments or actions of some ignorant, insensitive idiot in our youth who just did not care about the affects his comments would have on our psychy. So we should forgive and forget and learn not to do that to anyone else.
June 16th is a public holiday in South Africa commemorating the start of the Soweto Riots of 1976, sparked off by a government edict that all instruction in black schools would be delivered in Afrikaans.
The iconic picture of Hector Pieterson, a black schoolchild shot by the police in Soweto near Johannesburg during a peaceful protest march, brought home the brutalities of the Apartheid regime to many people within and outside of South Africa. In the weeks that followed over 700 people - mostly youth - were killed.
Youth Day could be a conflict-ridden date, but instead it serves to remind us of the importance of its youth and brings across the message that something like "the Soweto riots" should never happen again.
This year, June 16th happens to be a Friday, so say hello to a long weekend guys! Lets unite in love and peace and have a fabulous long weekend respecting one another no matter what race, religion and colour of our skin.