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Published: 2017-09-07
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKxPj4lq-Bc
psalm one on me Johnny good evening hello unlock bunch of okay so like every other so that we can that stood up here on the stage including I will consider South Africa now %HESITATION I'm gonna cost you I'm gonna be using a concept of Tonya Bob's pay young man's life who basically grew up in this very city often America's %HESITATION I'm also going to ask you
to raise your hand when you relate to things in the story %HESITATION personally so very song whole who else do have got a hot okay some didn't so well that now my talk this evening however I'm I consider making a human being and this would be once %HESITATION body which is the physical possibly see they help us do things a practical our mind so what makes
us do the things that we do and %HESITATION decide upon decisions that you make within our journey on life %HESITATION as we have on the earth and the last one is your soul so what is the core foundation of you being to the reason why your mind and your body does accent that does things that you end up doing now some response back in the year
nineteen eighty seven %HESITATION if you look at those numbers going the other way it's mine it seven but %HESITATION in October in this very city where a young man was born in a community while going to a community which is what leads I don't see any hands him so his own from weapons and with that %HESITATION he grew up basically with the first three years of
his life under the watch on his grandparents without his parents they %HESITATION and if you think about this at the same time dance of Africa and then I think at large lot of liberation stories for coming with different countries %HESITATION we're looking at Boston colonial systems throughout the continent and so when I'm speaking to you as all of my story think about Africa at large and
not only South Africa in ninety nine C. the settlements three years old his parents found work in Johannesburg as many other people in South Africa Johannesburg being the economic hub and place that attracts many of the young people so worth it but I try to full which was a big turning point for South Africa but also for the region as many people look at South Africa
at that time as a huge good story to tell %HESITATION one transformation and exhibits that not only are on race groups but also religious groups as well and what I want you to think about is how there was a lot of politics around it but also personally many people's lives correlates it what exactly what the exact same feelings and emotions and decisions that will happen many
people needed to be force would be able projects are included in this system some people began to integrate through difference of schooling system urban areas rule areas I'm not for the story had OSC how many of you have ever lived in a place that you and the one in okay so you know that feeling of that's the difference you're learning stuff at the same time which
you've heard from previous because yeah your feelings soul because you want to be accepted you want to be acknowledged and you want to be part of that same system back to the young man is six years old and he spends his first job schooling right hand in marriage and his grand that possible way his grandfather at the time remember he looks after him as a father
figure because his parents are living in cries I in the next year because of the changes and the financial stability and it's cracked country look off to him he ends up moving to an unknown space in Johannesburg with these two new adults and to you people that we have to look at it as a mom and dad when he's used to his grandparents at the moment
that I am a loan that brings a whole to some aspect because he's very use to watch his grandparents told him the way they do things I have to change it's in the system well time to Harrisburg what language do you think this man mainly spoken Nnamdi okay so I'm sure it will be testament to Heidi's stats it's on pecans yes so Afrikaans I'm sorry a
six year old and if you think about people as you go up when the young kids I want a soldier does not close our eyes and think back to when you were a kid what can you picture yourself back then and realizing didn't you enjoy what did you enjoy and walked into joy did you know the difference between good and bad do you know the difference
between black and white do you know the difference between Christian and Muslim do you know the difference between wrong and rockets okay you can open your eyes I was that is how this is the same items once formed and will Fosse track to the end of primary school was an avid student %HESITATION went on to high school but his parents but divorce due to the infidelity
of his father and if I were to children out of marriage I sold also happen to be from a forum person from sauce and so here comes the that often I know reading your minds because I saved the area that this person was born in the city that from so you really have a position of in your mind how this person looks and have a have
to now learn %HESITATION to adapt to this new role that they play and because they mom %HESITATION suffered from schizophrenia what the divorce case back to stay with the father so they were forced to adapt to the new family system but the person who's not his mother how soon adapted to new source does one being three and the other being one and learning another new language
as well within this household and cults a game and adapt to those changes after that his father gets radio having two thousand three if all of us we had left because that was the height of the HIV epidemic I was a lot of stigma and discrimination around it and in your mind hoping that parallel you're flowing with the life of this young man and the life
of our country and the life of a continent in the nineties Uganda South Africa some bubbly and Swaziland and the suits you have the highest rates of HIV are those countries today Uganda has totally turn that around and have a pivotal in sight of them have four percent well us hints of Africa haven't really had much chance what was what with everything that we have and
the resources that we have anyone's thank you now this beautiful vase concerned about as there is one point two billion people richest M. in resource oil at this race track but I think the economy come using them channeling those resources to overcome such things of HIV tuberculosis malaria or fighting different statements and discrimination but back to the story the young man's fifteen years old and it's
all the busses on but you to the statement explanation is not made a way of the reasons why so of course it's been covered up by pneumonia and no he keeps it enough so all these opportunistic infections are to blame let's make some noise but then there's the cost this little %HESITATION it's this person needs to manage them and I continue on the pa the story
goes that Beckwith will be one of the biggest selling points in the settlements live like for many and I don't see hand sales so I don't think many of us are affected or infected by HIV but yet to decide to take on this baggage I make it a negative parts what channel it into a positive you'll have to make a decision now the lady who was
his step mom they didn't really have a good relationship so you have to decide between because he returned to be a mass but and survive with his mom was on the social Braun do to mental illness and live really just getting through stuff and let go of the life of attending a model C. school and knowing the opportunities they could be missing out on a few
shops that out amazingly well that is going through the mind and soul of those around this person saving without him even knowing at that time his school office him free to sustain it is not a top performing person not a sporty person and say that you don't you can stay here and finish off your schooling off to school he have to because also returned back to
me gray came from the mavs I mean that very other he returned his mom possibly I and from that he worked there is also the skills from what I understand I'm feeling as if I should have moved three years ago after his father passed away now wants us to compare that to South Africa we had about the euphoria and the rainbow nation in the early nineties
we going through many divorces our political landscape and we saw final buff things and keep them together %HESITATION and even on the African continent if we look at that has to happen in science and with one of our leaders first ladies you know and so this is relationships and the substances and they do affect us not only of individuals passes a community of society a country
and as a continent and that young man his knee I never like I knew it whites go from that to any and I'm sorry the pots often that's on the reason why I think I'm here today I'm not a I'm not a degree graduates not on its graduates not of Australia I don't have all these academic approvals but yet I constantly find myself being chosen or
selected speak to people like assaults on stage is like this and when I was given this opportunity by the team I was really humbled but also confused like and I looked at the other people speaking mouse like this about a money %HESITATION but okay if you if you think us to be healthy and I don't think I'm going to use these two topics but we're very
one is very scientific and the other I could sort of adapt %HESITATION I thought you know what I've had to immigrate so many times over and over again and that's the story and one of us sitting in this room have gone through those immigration processes I'm and I believe that the the more challenging your immigration process is the better you will come off because you'll know
the struggles that's the most difficult and most downtrodden and most vulnerable and most marginalized individuals go through so that you can have empathy and you have and you're coming with a reference of understanding rather than an overview of what John said like of misconceptions and judgments and box everybody into saying %HESITATION on average once use because people might be offended by this old gay people but
in this box why does this person not in that box and it's confusing yeah I am a gay man just to clarify and but I don't allow such things to define who I have because each individual's and we have little and I also believe that I'm so holistic and incluso and that's I I I thought I put in my brief that I want you to use
of %HESITATION and African concert insurance of names and if you look at concentration those of us who drive when you get to the merry hell because I'm on a very busy often the which line do you go behind the line with the trucks align with the claws so the people would trust us Macha because actually that truck juegos much quicker because there's like ten trucks had
only put in two tracks thirty because so it goes much quicker so well that and that's why I'm talking about start questioning how you in your space and with your actions and your thoughts reacts to the outside so what Christian them leave you with is how are you image racing other people into your space thank
