You may not concur with me when I talk about slavery but any time I hear this single word then I either get bitter about what history is enumirating or either pitty our brothers and sisters who took part in it. My biggest question therefore is, why allow history to encroach in our yards if all it displays is bitterness, shame and sham that we do not need to cover but uproot and unearth so that we do not fall on the wrong side of the same antiquity? I authoritatively write this article to shun with the strongest terms possible this evil act of repainting child slavery and displaying it as away of practicing humility.
There is a bitter repercussion in every single injustice we do today. Lets benefit out of it today but we will pay the bitter exorbitant price tomorrow. I am not happy with what I see today, and I cannot accept to see the world being pushed to its brinks by a few nefarious people who are up to benefiting more than they deserve. Martin Luther king once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” So why do we create time for injustice today if we know very well that the very same injustice we practice will someday haunt us?
I have a feeling that these innocent children are being hurt, I have a feeling that the whips they lash on their backs hurts, the sweat they drizzle on the fields toiling for wages that do not benefit them is a slavery and above all they are denied the most of all important rights that the world needs today. In some matters we do not need to bring in these supranational organization to fight for us because we jingle the solution in the palms of our hands. We have the answers to the questions we raise. We have the solutions to all the predicaments we entangle ourselves with but we still cling to these weights that sets us sinking deep in the miry clays of child slavery.
You do not clean a house by hiding your dirt under the carpet, this is the time to air our dirty linens and expose them so that the shame we get today will be a source of fame and pride tomorrow. I grew up with a common say that children are the leaders of tomorrow yet we are not given that special opportunity to show the world what we are worth. These children we do not give formal education are the leaders of tomorrow. Making me ask if we are children of a lesser God? Are we children of a lesser God? One more time I ask, are we children of a lesser God?
We are already on the wrong path and even going more astray if we cannot send these innocent children to school. We are having uncivilised generation in the future, we are having uneducated leaders in the future, we are having poverty of the highest magnitude in the future, we are having a security threat in the future, we are capcizing our own ship of hope and chocking our selves if we can not suport education today because we want to benefit out of these innocuous children.
Hate me for telling the truth, but I am mad and will continue pointing fingers at my self if I deny a child of his/her rights of getting a formal education. Eras of devide and rule are past gone, and this is the time to fight barberic idea of manipulating the voiceless. I am not the first whistle blower but just echoing the voices of those who came before me that an uneducated society is a debilitated society. We all know that education is directly proportional to development, then how can we develop as a continent if we cannot suport education? We are setting our own traps and we need to know that there is no tommorrow if we cannot give today a chance.
It is a time to learn from history not a time to let history repeat itself. This is the time for change and change starts within us. A society that does not fear God and suport the truth is deem perishing. Life is too short and we are making it more shorter if we continue to enslave these children by denying them their rights. Fredrick Douglas once said, “It is easier to build strong children than to repair brocken men.” This starts by the way we bring up our children.
To paraphrase again the prophetic words of unlce Douglass, “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” This a message that cuts across all societal echelons, from the kids sent on the streets to beg to street families, to my brothers and sisters in brothels, and to that hopeless less-than-seven-year-old child who is cursing the day she/he was born. A message of hope, that one day light will shine, and God will untangle the chains that bind our ankles to slavery. This is my solemn creed that slavery MUST be fought through action and prayers. GO LIGHT THE WORLD!
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