Where Is Detroit Motor Spirit?

For those of you who still have no clue as to where Detroit Motor Spirit is located, here's a little directional video courtesy of True Sight Music. REVENGE OF THE RED - IT IS HERE

The 'Race' we're Running

According to John H. Relethford, author of The Fundamentals of Biological Anthropology, race “is a group of populations that share some biological characteristics….These populations differ from other groups of populations according to these characteristics.” 

Ok. So according to Science,Black folk got their own distinct traits, Whites got their own, Coloureds got theirs etc.  Elaborating on the aforementioned would then, I guess, lead us to jumping on Darwin's natural selection hypothesis and all reaching consensus that blacks have smaller brains than white folk , which justifies their condemnation to subservience and all the slavery talk you know all to well about If you've been reading up on history.

Fast Forward a couple of years down the line and in steps Nigerian born Philip Emeagwali, 1989 Gordon Bell Prize winner who keeps it fresh with an IQ of 190.

Someone smell a contradiction up in here?

Point is peeps.

Race, being the mass propogated social construct that it is, has and is getting us nowhere as a people. For centuries it has condoned segretation and even in a newly democratised nation like South Africa, where diversity and common national values are professed, it has brought with it scores of tension, generalisation and a genuine loathing of every person not of your skin tone.

Citing many a debate in Politics class and conversations with peers, it seems quite evident that when one sees one self within such a  boxed framework of physical and mental attributes, weapons are drawn in defense of  that which theorists have claimed us to be. Progressive thinking is therefore simply a wasted conversation in my opinion if we continue to engage framework to framework, dismissing the individualist sphere. 

Yeah sure, we all want to preserve our cultural needs, but the fact of the matter is that if we plan on 'getting along' and 'living in unity', there needs to come a time where a common vision needs to held and personal values need to be pushed to the side. 

Only in a perfect world though right? I know, and that's the anomaly in all this...

Everyone facing the same direction while simultaneously facing the opposite.

A challenge indeed that I think many of us South Africans have not wrestled with fully, including myself.

Regardless, it exists most abundantly and is hindering the in-house development of this nation to properly nurture SUSTAINABLE growth and a social sphere that intergrates beyond the classification frameworks in which we greet with our hearts, not just our minds.

The answer I so wish put forward right now is a message of forgiveness, love and tolerance so professed by the Gospel, but for many, race has garnered so much standing within their perceptive realities due to emotional damage and it is impossible to take on such a stance

In time though I pray that we'll open our eyes to the green pastures ahead, strips us off this construct that is depriving us all of a unified future where love serves as the power source from which we interact and nurture this nation of ours. 

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

Peace

J