VOICE FROM AMERICA: How Ubuntu could change the face of US police brutality
We will all have to choose to recognise the humanity in each other and to work together to break down systems perpetuating inequality
19 June 2020 - 06:00
I am a black woman, born and raised in Soweto, during the reign of apartheid, though I now live in the greater Seattle area, where I work for Amazon.
The racial abuse and violence happening here today in the US was routine as I grew up, part of everyday life. The fact that my grandfather was exiled from the country for 27 years because he opposed the apartheid government was not extraordinary. Sadly, neither was the murder of my father, an attorney fighting for civil rights for all people of colour. My father was shot in the head with an AK-47 and left to rot — and that was simply the way things were...
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