Keitu Reid, Author at Consciousness.co.za Magazine

Made-it Blacks

Keitu Reid — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:11:22 +0000

(@keitureid) Increasingly I have been observing black people who have ‘made it’. And made it they have. They live in suburbs where fresh pleasing leaves decorate the streets, not rusty beer cans. Black 4×4’s with armed security patrol their gated communities. Their children attend esteemed private schools – at times driven by a chauffeur. On [...]

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Keitu Reid

Keitu Reid — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:42:56 +0000

www.blackscribe.co.za … I love words. More than that, I love words that are put together to give simple but stimulating messages. ____________________ by Keitu Reid (@keitureid on twitter) Universal Victim I am the universal victim searching for that manmade dream of happiness. When I sleep the Gods say they are all a possibility. When I [...]

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Dear Black People

Keitu Reid — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:08:48 +0000

After my *‘Dear White People’ article, my usually restrained brother – emailed and called rather distressed. He felt I was perpetuating the feeling of victimhood amongst Black people when instead I should be asking them to interrogate themselves and ask why everyone conquers Africa – the Europeans, Americans and Russians; now the Chinese and Indians [...]

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My Africa

Keitu Reid — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:07:39 +0000

Twitter: @KeituReid You watch television and all you see is Africa and its dependency. Why is this the only thing they ever say about us? You open the newspaper and you read that another African leader has stolen money from his famished nation. Why do our leaders do this to us? Surely this must embarrass [...]

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Will Malema free us from economic slavery? I doubt it

Keitu Reid — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:07:57 +0000

You know why I like Julius Malema? I like Julius Malema for one reason only – he dared to challenge us as a black youth to have ‘economic freedom in our lifetime.’ It is important at this stage that I must add a clause saying that I am unsure of Malema’s intentions. For the most [...]

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