User:Henry.Michael.Africa/sandbox

User HenryMichaelAfrica is a published author since publishing his 1st novel in 2009. A Colored South African he writes about the next generation and the difficulties facing them in a changing country called "The New South Africa".

Having fought for the democracy that now exists, he finds that the opportunities he fought for now freely go to other 'more Black' people in the country. The fight for autonomy in this changed country is a road that holds un-chartered waters and he has to plot a new course for himself and for the ones he holds dear. "Once we were all Black and now we are not black enough", could be a summary of the current day South Africa.

After fighting in the streets for a united cause, Colored people are finding that they are largely left out of the new ruling elite of the country. A new approach is required if they are to fully take up their place in the new society they helped to fight for. Even the previously privileged whites are left better off in this new dispensation as the black rulers look to them to teach them how to govern. But the whites will only teach them as much as they need to know so that they remain dependant on them. That is the way of the white man. He will never change. That conclusion I reach after living amongst them for more than 3 decades.

So how do the Colored people get what they rightly deserve after being partners in a victory over Apartheid? They pick up the fight once again, and learn the lessons hard taught by their unfaithful black war-comrades. You still cannot trust the black man, as much as you cannot trust the white man. That is a sad reality. Now the black man sees what he has been deprived of he wants it. And he is not prepared to share once he gets it... Seen it 1st hand many times over the last few years. The Black man needs to be taught to share before he learns how to rule effectively.....