When it come to Julius, i wont lie, its a love/hate relationship for me. There, i said it.
I love him because in essence, this is the only guy that is making us talk about issues that many would rather we ignore. And the fact is, problems are never comfortable to talk about or deal with so why should we sugar coat them in fancy intellectual language, studies or theories?
Jesse Jackson is currently in the country to recieve an honourary literature doctorate from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. I realised that in one very well articulated speach, he summed up what Julius Malema has been trying to say since he stepped into the scene via issues such as nationalisation, Zimbabwe and many other sensitive and sometime not so appropriate channels.
Do yourself a favor and read the speech here .
The hate is actually not really hate, but rather...i don't know...a sadness i guess, frustration at the fact that the only guy with balls to challenge the status quo lacks in formal education and is therefore unable to articulate his views in a manner that is "socially" acceptable by media, business and the intellectual elite who own the economy of this country.
It is also a saddens me that this lack of articulation mixed with greed for power can be explosive and begin to alienate those that look to him for change, those that need him for change.
"...equality needed to be prioritised, but not in superficial boardroom meetings..."
-Jesse Jackson
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Yo dude, I agree with Jesse Jackson about equality needing to be prioritised but I feel that the emotional sway in decision making to determine a direction in which we should take equality is really obscured and one sided with people like Julius Malema. His opinion is that white people must go, this doesn't solve a problem this just alienates the whole equality issue even further. I personally think that the issue can't be resolved with a full emotional debate backed by the turmoil we've had in our country but by reasoning. A middle ground between an emotional debate and a boardroom meeting type environment would need to be establish so that there is some logic behind the emotionally charged opinions people have. I don't see this with Julius Malema, while he might be the poster boy for bringing equality opinions into the light its pushing equality discussions to have a negative output.
ReplyDeleteSup Nick. We're on the same page dude and what you are saying about a middle ground between the emotional and the boardroom is spot on. You do however have to acknowledge that for too long we have only had the boardroom discussions which inevitably will only represents the wants of the haves.
ReplyDeleteSo the extremist views of Julius Malema may be what we need to reach the middle ground, something that could be described as a necessary evil (an mind you, its only "evil" to the haves and not the have nots). But you raise a good point in that we have to ask ourselves at what point does this necessary evil start become and incurable cancer that will slowly devour our country?