Something that’s been on my mind recently and I’ve mentioned these memories before but in the context of Musk I do think it bears repeating.
1987. Not that long ago right? Now I was about to hit my teens. I’m not much younger than Elon. Moved to South Africa. He lived in Pretoria, me Jo’burg.
We arrived. Within a couple of weeks we had our own maid. If you didn’t take a maid in people would be at your door every day begging you to give them a job. A maid was paid peanuts.
Quite parenthetically, I was still in high school that same year, and two of us performed a short anti-apartheid play in front of the school. I played a Johannesburg "housewife" and the other girl was the maid. I wish I had kept the script, but I do remember my part was all about my daily routine, my hopes, joys, worries, etc., and her part was all about her own life and what she was actually going through. What a time. What a time we're in now.
@LiseL just sometimes it runs around my brain and it’s like wtaf. I mean, I know there’s places on the planet now that are as awful for women and people, but when folk talk about “Christian values” and all as if it could never happen again. This was a “Christian values” country through and through.
Things can flip pretty quickly right? People alive not only lived through things like this but actively supported it.
They walk among us and we let our guards down.
@process
Truly frightening.