The Acne to my melanin

People’s opinions are either informed by lived experiences or learned ones, and we sometimes bicker over which holds more weight in terms of the validity of opinions.  Those who are well versed in literature often disregard the lived experiences of the subjects of their study unless it is as research material for their studies. And those who’ve done the time, sometimes feel that opinions formed from outside the of the ring hold little weight because everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.  This divide, like most things, is usually between the haves and the have not’s. Middle and upper-class people often sit behind high walls, in air-conditioned homes and lead the discourse on poor people and the effects of poverty on the social dynamics in townships. They, without any true knowledge of what it is like down in the trenches, get a platform to speak on behalf of those they don’t know and they do so with a confidence that is symptomatic of couch quarterbacks and ...

It is not by accident that almost every atrocity committed against humanity has found refuge within capitalism. Racism, colourism, sexism, exploitation, and slave labour all found a home within the capitalist system. The face of the villain has changed from European nations to multi-national companies that are coincidentally from those same countries, but the rules of the game remained the same, capitalist in nature. We’ve been convinced that it is no longer Western nations that pillage and plunder the world but greedy multi-national companies with no soul. Periodically, someone is chosen as the face of this corporate greed; first, it was John D. Rockefeller, then Bill Gates, and now it is Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. The actions of companies have been divorced from the foreign policies of their homelands and they are painted to be acting of their own accord without state encouragement or influence. What is often not mentioned is that it was not the Dutch government but a private co...