I’m black
I am a big believer in diversity. I always try to make friends from as diverse backgrounds as possible. From Alexandra township to Sandton city and every place in between;I have friends from there. I have white friends and Chinese friends and almost any other race that chooses to grace Wits with it’s presence. The last thing I want is to make friends with people like me, I get enough of me when I am alone thank you very much.
The reason I am going on about the type of friends I make is because I want all my friends to know that I made them because they are different to me not because they are similar. So just in case you were wondering, I don’t know who Billy Joel is and I have never heard the Bohemian Rhapsody, as much as you don’t know who Tandiswa Mazwai is and you’ve probably never heard Somagwaza, and no I have never eaten curvier and I think sushi is disgusting, in the same way that you have probably never eaten sour milk and mphokoqo and you think tripe (the insides of a sheep) are disgusting.
So what am I saying here? I am saying I like people who are different from that’s why I make friends with them, I don’t want my white friends to call me mfethu because guess what? I have enough black friends who will. And there is something to learn in our differences. I had never had of the concept of poached eggs until I heard some of my white friends talking about it (only white people would make poached eggs), and now one of my friends has promised to make some for me one day (I can’t wait). And if you want, I can teach you how to make pap, samp and magwinya (just don’t make them when I come over to your house, I want white, Indian or Russian food depending on your race) and we can learn something from one another. After all that’s why we make friends at least that should be why.
May 4th, 2010 at 9:45 am
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Андеррайтер, Специалист по страхованию I have white friends and Chinese friends and almost any other race that chooses to grace Wits with it’s presence. The […..