Bloggers unite for Human Rights

Today the 15th of May bloggers all over the world have been challenged by Bloggers Unite to speak up on human rights.
Here in South Africa human rights is still an ongoing battle. It seems the weight just gets shifted around instead of the problem getting solved.
Fine a lot of people are doing a lot of things to help relieve the situation, but the majority of people seem to not want to let go of past injustice.
Everyone knows about South Africa’s apartheid struggle. It is nothing to be proud of, yet we have overcome it and have been trying our best to put it behind us. The thing is it seems that the majority of people like to not forget about it as it lends them a kind of ‘comfort zone’ for lack of a better term.
It’s easy to say, yes because of what you did in the past, I deserve to have this and that and with that attitude the problem will never go away.

Fair is not fair anymore. what was fair in the past to try and fix the problem was to give certain individuals the opportunity to rise to the top while holding others back in order to reset the balance. Now however the system is being abused as it is so easy to get what you want if you keep the other party feeling guilty all the time.

If you had to hurt someone, whether by accident or on purpose or even ignorance and later you feel bad about it and apologise, isn’t it unfair of that person to keep taking advantage of you by referring to the incident over and over again?
Isn’t this an infringement on your human rights? You’ve paid your dues, you’ve apologised, now let it go. LET IT GO!
What makes it worse is when that person keeps on taking advantage of the situation even after you have left the earthly abode by referring the generation after you to the injustice which was caused by you. Now that is major infringement on your human rights.

South Africa has a long way to go. Until certain parties can’t let go of their grievances or even better, until such a time as everyone are treated equally (meaning no special favours based on the colour of your skin or the language you speak) the issue will never be resolved. We’ll carry on going in circles. Round and round and round.

Related article on MyPE: Are You Guilty of Human Rights Abuse in PE?

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