START SOMEWHERE BUT DONT START SMALL !

START SOMEWHERE BUT DONT START SMALL! 
Written by Jabulani Mabuza ( candidate attorney at Khoza and Associates) 

On Sunday I was invited to a lunch by a friend. Sat with a group of young people, from journalism graduates to psychology student safe to say in the group of 8 we had 2 graduates and 6 students. All of them young gifted and Black. The converstations were quite growing "clever blacks" is what they are.

The problem started when one said "we need to start small because without whites we are nothing" The debate ensued I'll leave it for the next article that will deal soley with the contents of the debates. Now what changed me was a comment from this law student who countered what was said with a bold statement START SOMEWHERE BUT DONT START SMALL.

Is that how we measure our success? Via the white man? Being a Pan Africanist doesn't mean being anti white but rather liberating the black mind to apprehend that we are better even better than the white man.

As a Candidate attorney to one great lawyer I look everyday at how great he is, I sit in hearings with him n see him as an Attorney tear apart the case of a White Advocate SC. That has taught me that only we limit ourselves by lowering the bar to reaching our goals.

He Himself started as a Constitutional Court researcher at one stage he was the clerk to the late Chief Justice Arthur Charkalson. Today he is the best at what he is does. He started somewhere, he didn't start small.

The Journey is never the same but the  principles are. We honour the journey, we learn and we grow from it... Not every humble beginning has a great end, we can't start where our ascendents(parents/ grandparents) did.
We feel our success stories are only authentic if we have struggled.

The black struggle is already heavy, don't add to it. I Started somewhere but I definitely did not start small. You decide Black Child !