Episode 5 : #CancelRent (Please!)

IN CASE OF EMERGENCIES

In the words of the good people at Rent Strike South Africa:

The rent strike is an evolving conversation about how regular people can keep themselves safe, sheltered, and fed through the coming months.

The basic premise of the strike is simple: If we can’t work, we can’t pay rent. Instead of being isolated and on your own in worrying about how to pay rent and to feed yourself, regular people can collectively support each other, and can take their lives into their own hands by keeping their rent. Because even as lockdown is lifted bit by bit over coming months, we will still have significant restrictions on movement. Life is not going back to normal any time soon, and the most vulnerable people in our most unequal country will be hit the hardest. Not that normal was good for so many of us. If you keep your rent today, you might be able to buy groceries tomorrow where you wouldn’t have. And that is one of the biggest things you can do to ensure that you will have some money for food going forward, if you had any money at all in the first place. Government is giving some money to people, but it is insufficient, unreliable, and maladministered, so we ask ourselves: What are some real practical ways that we can ensure that we are collectively safe together?

YERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last episode I spoke to not expressing and internalising everything you think, couldn’t help but cringe watching Kanye’s 1st political rally, I’m not siding with him but if you’ve ever created something, from scratch a thought even the first time you share you sound like a nutter most times, there’s vision in that meltdown mark my words.

That aside my message to Kanye, rest blood only so much one can do in a day.

RIP MoonYeenn Lee Iconic South African Casting Director at some point she represented everyone that made up our local industry, literally. Tsotsi, long walk to freedom to name a few

Couldn’t help but think of Sue Mengers Hollywood SuperAgent , if you seen The Marvellous Ms Maisel that’s loosely based on the life of Joan Rivers, the Character Susie Myerson Midges’ manager that’s Sue in a nutshell, gives us a rare look into the Day to day of the likes of Mengers & Mitzi Shore considered the godmother of comedy read up on her to see the careers she launched.

Managers and agents get bad PR but good management speaks for itself hope you get a Shore, Mengers or if you’re lucky you can get a Moon-Yenn Lee.

Till tomorrow.

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⚠️ WARNING ⚠️

What’s the Energy?

It’s Monday.

Deal with the things you dislike about yourself, the things you see in each of your folks that must’ve been passed on,the toxic side. Face it at least because if you don’t you’re doomed to become that.

Simple.

In meditation 🧘‍♂️ we’re told to notice what we think, where thoughts come from, big lesson the majority of the time you shouldn’t be sharing what you think or more importantly internalizing it, we’re a product of what we tell ourselves. Words like manifestation have to arise here, you’re speaking good or bad into existence equally. Use it don’t use it.

We don’t preach here

Today I’m reading a letter from Che Guevara to his Children, his last words, bumped into it on a great website for an even better causes https://letterslive.com/ they organize events to read letters I was sold. I know what the impact of simple words are even if for some they’re indeed just words. This particular letter was read by Russell Brand who I’m a fan of.

Honorable or dishonorable mention to Ghislaine Maxwell. Found closure reading into the darker sides of her story and her fathers influence and later the man who became that figure in her life. You have to Stray from your (Ghis)Laine you are not your parents.

Any back to Che, Brand chose this letter because like Guevara he is a polarizing character but paired they’re perfect. You’re allowed to feel what you want to feel about Ernesto(& Russell)but above all he seemed to be a good dad and made a clear distinction between who he had chosen to be and the life he wanted for them and not just in words.

Here’s to being “Good Revolutionaries”and committing to always making “Good Trouble”

RIP John Lewis

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17 July 2020

Happy Birthday Mr President!!!!!

Today we begin the lesson with how much I love my Dad, I swear, ask my sister. Me and that guy have butted heads though, many times but I have to give him his flowers he’s a very likeable bloke. my dads like a catchy hook in the end you’re left irritated and you can’t get him out of your head haha.

Why am I speaking about my dad? Oh yes, On his birthday we all have different memories of Mandela I only got to see his final season. His last dance. The tales of the harder parts of his story were also told to me eventually, if there ever was a guy who turned the other cheek, that saying is about him. I attribute his choices to Grace, that’s how he carried himself.

So on this day every year a day before his birthday let’s celebrate all the people that love your Dad /Tata from all over the world whilst you’re at home irritated lol

My favorite memory has to be from his US Visit, scoured the net like a mad man finding the best footage possible of him in the Yankee fit, I thought that image was photoshopped at some point, you’ve seen the Obama In Stussy image that was actually Tom Hardy as a youngin’ deep-fakes anyway, simply he visited Yankee stadium on that tour and what you expect ?!? came through drippin’ ( drip drip)for sure.

Something funny that happened when I searched ‘Mandela’ ‘Yankee’ my home boy Thamsanqa Jantjies popped up I died. Google’s search engine connecting too many dots obviously i mean I get it Yankee / Jantjies.

This episodes quote is from George The Poets ‘My Mandela’ poem tribute https://youtu.be/IHZ2L7um_9E  Real name George Mpanga was pleasantly surprised to see he was an immigrant too explains why I gravitated towards this, one of many who love him from far. Mandela Mooi Van Ver, at least for me. Never the latter part of that saying.

He would’ve been 102 this year.

Description won’t always be this long, this one just mattered I guess.

Gonna share a gallery of images in stories super High Def, they’re thousands of images of Mandela I chose specifically to share the ones with Winnie in them she was always there just like your mum next to your irritating dad maybe I also like the idea of them as a happy family whether it was true or not. To all the likeable dads , s/o to Mom.

R.I.P Zindziswa Mandela

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Thursday, 16 July, 2020

SLACKTIVISM- Slacking on your Activism

I thought it was apt to start with a Throwback it's Thursday after all.

I rarely disagree with Barack Obama/Obama/Michelle’s Husband/ Sasha & Malia’s Dad/ Mr President. For me it has to do with feeling like you’re letting down the black community by overly scrutinising his words and undermining our struggle, he’s human he can be wrong.

The address was at The Obama Foundation Summit he was sat next to Yara Shahidi on the dais so you can imagine my spider-sense was under duress . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHLd8de6nM this clip did the rounds on socials I’m sure many people on first watch missed it.

As he began to wag his finger and begin a soliloquy on call-out culture the glass began to break sentence by sentence. The quote read in the episode is from a written piece by Ernest Owens for the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/obama-woke-cancel-culture.html African American Journalist so i wasn't alone in shaking my head. After reading that i was glad to see i was not the only person in the crowd(imaginary) frowning at the points.

What i realised when i started to digest his monologue was that Just like my folks he was a boomer and his opinion /understanding of my generation and generations coming after mine was based on that unfortunate unavoidable lens

now i know, everything with a pinch of salt.

till tomorrow

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