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NgoFebruwari yinyanga yembali emnyama. Kutheni kufuneka ukuba ibe mnyama?

NgoFebruwari yiNyanga yeMbali eMnyama eMelika. Yinyanga apho, njengelizwe, sibhiyozela impumelelo yama-Afrika aseMelika. Inyanga apho samkela khona igalelo lamadoda nabafazi base-Afrika abenze kweli. Yinyanga apho abantwana abakwiminyaka esesikolweni benziwa ukuba bamamele intetho kaGqirha King "Ndinephupha" kwaye banokunikwa amaphepha anemifanekiso yakhe yokufaka imibala kunye nokuxhoma eludongeni lwegumbi lokufundela.

Umbuzo: Kutheni le nto sivuma oku kuphunyeziweyo, le minikelo yinyanga enye kuphela ngonyaka? Kwaye kutheni ichongwa njengembali "eMnyama"? Xa kuxoxwa ngeminikelo eyimbali yabantu abahloniphekileyo baseYurophu asibhekiseli kubo njengembali "emhlophe". Isixa se-melanin, okanye ukunqongophala kwaso, okukhoyo ngaphakathi emntwini akufuneki ukuba kuchaphazele ukuba impumelelo yabo mayibhiyozelwe nini.

Umbuzo ekufuneka ubuzwe kukuba kutheni ezinye izinto, ukufezekiswa kunye / okanye impumelelo ziphathwa ngokwahlukileyo ngokusekwe kwimbali yookhokho. Igalelo likaGqirha Martin Luther King Jr, Harriet Tubman, uGqirha Charles Drew, uGeorge Washington Carver nabanye abaninzi baye banceda ekubumbeni ifayibha yeli lizwe kwaye bakhonza ukunceda ubomi babo bonke abantu baseMelika, hayi abo baseAfrika kuphela. imvelaphi.

Ugqirha Charles Drew ufumanise into ebalulekileyo ekugcinweni nasekuqhubekeni kwegazi lotofelo alupheleliselwanga ekusetyenzisweni kwabo bantu baziwa njengoMnyama. Kananjalo inkqubela phambili kunyango lwesifo esibuhlungu esenziwa nguvulindlela nguGqirha Patricia Bath okanye uqhaqho lwentliziyo oluvulekileyo nguvulindlela nguGqirha Daniel Williams. Ukuqhubeka nokuthoba ukubhiyozela oku kunye nokunye okuninzi okufumanekileyo kwinyanga ethile yonyaka kubonakala ngathi kuyala kwaye akuhloniphi.

Njengoko bekutshiwo ngaphambili, intetho kaGqirha uKing "Ndinephupha" kubonakala ngathi kukuya xa ufundisa zonke izinto ngembali emnyama. Kodwa, ngaba njengelizwe sakha sayeka ukumamela ngokwenyani amazwi entetho yakhe yomfanekiso? Ugqirha King uthe, "Ndinephupha lokuba ngolunye usuku esi sizwe siyakuphakama siphile ngeyona ntsingiselo yemfundiso yaso:… ukuba bonke abantu badalwe belingana." Ukuba sinokuze sifezekise le njongo, kufuneka sizisuse kulwazi lokuba imbali yabantu abamnyama baseMelika ngandlel 'ithile ingaphantsi kwembali yabantu abamhlophe baseMelika kwaye ifanelekile kangangeentsuku ezingama-28 zokubhiyozela. Kufuneka sidlule kulo mkhuba wokwahlula kunye nowokucalucalula kwaye samkele ukulingana kwembali yethu.

Ukuvala, ayisiMbali yabaMnyama… yimbali nje, yimbali yethu, yimbali yaseMelika.