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“Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.”

— Rumi

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Poems & Words

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“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”

— (via amargedom)

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Thanks to all those who have brought us thus far. Sharing, donating and simply holding the cause in mind. 4 days to go, race done and dusted, if you want to help get us over the line, please support ECD in S.A. Link in profile 😎 #Asiyeki #RunForSomething #RunForCECD #ECD https://www.instagram.com/p/BwtTwnVhAOgC3aFLB405PhHQfA-K1JhWDBsk6M0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lbzje4hqb7su

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We made it! Sub-230 as predicted 😎🙃 We thank the LORD. What a vibe OMTOM. Crowd support like I've never seen. Too bad OM is stepping out. Dedicate this run to CECD & the work they do. #RunForSomething #RunForCECD #Asiyeki #NeverStop #OMTOM2019 #Gqibile (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/BweErAIBx4MbKMd5zCLAzt3AWsmvIaOdpjNAF80/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1026m0zd3pi7f

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😁😁😁 Beamin' 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️ (at Midrand, Gauteng) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv3IQt8hD-iL4NkriAGlbTy-RzZGrN4QZbbZqY0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=z4wdn2b0r94o

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Because our children deserve a chance for a better beginning than we had. If you can spare anything, do for someone what they can't do for themselves. Give. Link in bio --> #RunForSomething #RunForCECD #NeverStop #RememberAndGive #GivenGain (at Gauteng) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvrh21dhvZtcUL_yf6FDWyiT2fX9dZOnZyMwzQ0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=74ux6gcew51m

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Us (2019) Spoilers

I really don’t know how critics can say they don’t get the underlying message and metaphor in Us.

Its about class in America. This is astoundingly obvious from the moment Adelaide’s doppelganger starts speaking.

I’ll lay it out:

1. The film proper opens with a TV playing a promo for Hands Across America, a campaign to fight poverty and hunger

2. Prior to that, we’re given a text description of the tunnels beneath America, tunnels largely inhabited by some of the most impoverished people in the country.

3. Adelaide first encounters her doppelganger in a native American themed boardwalk attraction. Reminding us of some of the first people to suffer for American wealth.

4. From early on, we see that the family are well off. They’ve got a summer home, a boat, a nice car etc. Some bougie motherfuckers on here seem to think they represent some kind of working class average joe family which is just baffling to me. This is not how most people are able to live.

5. Despite their relative wealth, Gabe is jealous of Josh and Kitty’s greater wealth. They’ve got an even nicer summer home, smart home tech, fancier car, fancier boat, cash for cosmetic surgery, etc. Josh’s family the sort of family well off people always point to so they can go “No I’m not wealthy. That’s wealthy. I’m just average/middle class/working class.”

6. Adelaide’s doppelganger describes how for every joyous occasion Adelaide and her family have, her family has to suffer. The joy of the upper classes is built on the suffering of the poor.

7. The doppelgangers wear red jumpsuits, evoking labourers, prisoners, and communists.

8. The doppelganger says “We are Americans.” asserting their place in the power structure of America. They’re there every day. This isn’t about foreign labour, its about people living in desperation right next door to people living in luxury.

9. Adelaide is replaced by her doppelganger as a child. This is doubly significant. Firstly, the Adelaide we follow is a class traitor, abandoning and killing her own people to live in prosperity. Secondly, the Adelaide taken below is a representation of the class conscious bourgeois intellectual who organizes revolution. She can speak and think freely, unlike the doppelgangers, like how intellectuals with the free time for education and introspection can form plans and ideas that the poor are denied.

10. The replication of Hands Across America by the doppelgangers is a revolutionary statement. Their attacks on the surface are terrorist actions meant to garner a reaction for their cause. This is foreshadowed by Jason asking Adelaide if she thought he was taken by terrorists.

11. We can infer the doppelgangers were created by the government and its stated they were meant to control the surface people. This mirrors how in real life the elite build systems that mentally enslave even the more privileged members of normal society. This is, I believe, also meant to directly remind us of the horrific government mind control experiments conducted in the 20th century.

12. The facility the doppelgangers are imprisoned in looks like a 1980s shopping mall. Another allusion to materialism.

I think the insistence by many people here that this film is about race despite Jordan Peele clearly stating that it isn’t comes from two places:

1. People assume he’s a one-trick pony which he isn’t.

2. Some black Americans are afraid to confront the fact that they contribute to suffering and the dehumanizing effects of capitalism the same way white Americans do. (I think this is also why many posts on here cast Adelaide’s family as blameless normal folk and Josh’s family as completely opposite to them when they’re really very similar.) Its mentally and emotionally easy to imagine yourself as a victim and not consider how you might hurt others.

3. Many people are unable to view a black cast as “normal”. In their minds the blackness of these people has to be the meaning of the film. Its an unconscious othering which is perpetrated by both non-black people and black people unused to seeing black families portrayed in American cinema. While it plays into their characters, the family’s blackness is incidental to the actual message. What matters is that they are Americans and they have money.

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Running in support of Sizwe Xulu who has been diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. Run hook up via @chillirunners Thanks for the vibe guys. Ndizophinda ndini join-e one of these days for itraining. #RunForSomething #Asiyeki #NeverStop (at Gauteng) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvQz1Fmhhk3nzALT4KFuwXOi469B7iDy-Q_i6E0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2qorm36veahy