Try not to be an expat while black. But if you have to, do come back fam.
I love pigeons. Them birds go all over the world to search for food and sunshine. Them dudes always come back to their nest after a winter sojourn in the Cayman Islands. Free trip bro. They go after the sun but remember the place they crap on the most that smells of their excrement, here in Fordsburg, Jozi.
But my brother, I hear you want to leave the country and go into economic exile, they say. You are saying that this country cannot be fixed. They say you are going to emigrate to Tianjin, China and call that dorp your home forever and a day bruv. Why you wanna do that bro, huh?
You got schooled here, you learnt your trade and your skills, this country made you bro. You are a clever black now, educated at UCT, or was it Wits? Dean’s Merit List and PhD huh?
You want to brain drain on Cyril?, Are you going to come back? Ok, I’ll be over here watching Isibaya bro, I’ll put that thing on the PVR for you for when you come back from them shores, aint no thing fam. Just make sure you come back.
Let me let you in on a little secret about China. I’ve been thinking about this bro. China played the world big time. That whole communism thing was an act. They got the world thinking they cooking themselves silly, for sixty years them dudes were plotting. Remember their civilization is way way older than the Western civilization. Them dudes got archives of artworks from when Noah was building his ark. They been trying to own the world ever since they figured that capitalism was not the way the world should work. Lets test that theory for a bit.
Silicon Valley was built on Chinese labour. Asians created the Amazons, Googles and Facebooks. Them Mao dudes were deployed there to go get the blueprints fam. Them and the Indians from India. In every Silicon Valley company, 80% of engineers were from Asia (mostly India and China) (ok, this is an untested stat, but lets allow for the sake of conversation).
When the task was done, the deployees went back to the mothership and reconstructed and advanced. Now poor old Trump is using trade wars to fight back, and its too late fam. China has leapfrogged. Its not even about 5G anymore. China is on 10G bruv. And them US dudes cant catchup, because they dont have the in-house IP and R&D. Why you think Huawei got so big so quickly? Matrix thing this. Chairman Mao was the Mandarin Jesus bruv.
And we need to understand the nationalism that is currently happening the world over, Brexit, Make America Great Again (MAGA), the T-shirt guys protesting in France (or whatever they are called), the far right in Germany etc. Yeah, go be enslaved as a minority in them places 5 years from now bruv. Go do your thing. But do teach your kids World History too bro. Why World War 1 started and what led to World War II. And why them things were called World Wars..
You teach your kids to be free thinkers? Teach them their identity too, teach them to know their community and their country. Teach them why community is important, teach them communism. Teach them travel and allow them to go and experience abject racism in Italy. But don’t send them to melanin imprisonment. If you want that for yourself you go and stay in Tianjin, China and you get some education on why you need visas to travel to them damn places.
Sorry bro, the world is not your oyster. That is just hocus pocus. You’s a black man of African origin. Go driving at night after some drinks in Louisville, Kentucky in the US of A. And we will #blacklivesmatter your name in infamy and for a short while on Twitter bro. And then we will drive to Sakhumuzi on Vilakazi Street and have some sundowners and chit chat about the Zondo Commission. Cheers bro.
