IMĀN ZANELE OMAR
From the ground
Who Would You Be Under Apartheid?
Would you be silent?
Would you be violent?
Would you be an activist?
Would you be deemed a terrorist?
Would you be complicit?
Would you have resisted?
Would you have chosen not to see?
Would you have made art and poetry?
Would you have cared,
if millions were being displaced, malnourished and living scared?
Would you have been justifying,
the ethnic cleansing of a population while children are dying?
Would you be completely unmoved and desensitized?
Would you refuse to say the word GENOCIDE?
The questions are endless.
The answer is simple.
The person you would be under apartheid, is exactly who you are right now.