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- 1. #SA_MUST_RISE I look at our magnificent country and all its people and the only thing I see is negativity. Negativity as far as the eye can see. I look at our magnificent country and all its people and my eyes fill with tears. I am a seventeen-year-old white male. I am a student at Paul Roos Gymnasium in Stellenbosch.I've lived in South Africa all my life and I wouldn't want to call any otherplace home. I am incredibly privileged to be a part of the born-free generation. Born free. Freed from the shackles that tore into our country's tenderskin. Freed from the hate, the racism and the suffering. Or so I thought… I woke up to a twitter storm one morning after a deranged real estate agent compared black beach goers to monkeys. An employee of the Gauteng Department of Culture, Recreation and Sport subsequently called for the slaughterof all white South Africans. Where is the love, I ask you with a lump in my throat. Get up from behind your laptop, your 140 character Twitter opinion can wait. Go out and make a real effort to eradicate racism in yourcommunity. Make an effort to clean up the garbage that people like Penny Sparrow and Velaphi Khumalo leave behind. Our beautiful country was ripped apart by the claws of Apartheid and many of the problems we face today can be placed at the feet of that very evil. Apartheid might have been the cause of racial hatred in South Africa, but that definitely doesn't make it an excuse you can hide behind just because your thought processes date backto the 60’s. Apartheid left behind a putrid can of worms, half opened and left to seep into the very fabric of our nation, but isn't it time for us to stop pathetically looking for people to blame and take responsibility for our nation's future? The racist white elephants of the past have thrown our nation into the deep end and President Zuma seems to be poking holes in the life raft, but are we really going to waste our last breath by complaining that life isn't fair? I don't think so.Screw them all. Screw the white elephants,the pessimists and the haters. Screw the greedy politicians, stuffing their mouths while the nation dies of hunger.Most of all though, screw the racists that still inhabit our country like parasites, poisoning our blood stream. Let them drown in their own self pity while we rise above our obstacles to become the South Africa we were destined to be. The South Africa Madiba knew we would one day become. I hereby call upon all South Africans to inspire change within themselves and within their communities and start a revolution. A revolution that will mark the end of inequality, hatred and racism and will spark the birth of a great South Africa. I look at our magnificent country and all its people and I see hope.Hope as far as the eye can see. I look at our magnificent country and all its people and my eyes fill with tears. Tears of happiness.Happiness at the knowledge that South Africa will rise and rise again from the demons of its past like a Phoenix from the ashes,until the lambs become lions. Put that on your banner in Long Street.