we had to make sacrifices that they
didn't understand
you know nobody sees that our grocery
bill was insane
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black tax can be summed up as a
duty that the child has to the family
most of the time we find that our
families give up
so much to ensure that we get that
degree
and once we get that job it is
payback time to me the time is still
foreign i don't think to me as an
african man
i agree with the words especially the
tax i'd rather say
family responsibility
we do grow up in communities that are
far behind sometimes it's actually quite
nice to
start empowering people in our
communities if one two
three people are giving you know through
it means the greater community is
gaining
so in order for to uplift our people
i'm happy to really do what i can
blacktext
has both negatives and positives
the positive thing for me is ensuring
that
a nephew gets the much needed education
but on the downside it means that i
personally have to make a lot of
sacrifices
so a lot of people do struggle with that
mainly because the obligation is
engraved within us like deep mentally it
has definitely gone too far and i think
it's still going too far for a number of
people
mainly because of um the inability to
set boundaries
at one point i had to pay for my younger
sister's creation fee
and it i didn't look at it as something
that i was forced to do
i had to do it because i was not going
to look at suffering
in my presence while i can help i love
to be valued
because of what i have done for myself
and the others members of the community
i think that is wealth the thing is if
you're always coughing up money you're
not
you're actually not going to be able to
progress because it's a lifetime
commitment
actually i think set a budget of how
much you can afford how much you can
give them and how far you're willing to
do it for
i think so but i think it's going to
take some time and i think it's going to
take
us which is the new generation coming up
from like the 94's upwards
to change it it is definitely about
breaking that cycle
we don't want to burden our children as
well
we want to set them up for a for a great
future we want our kids
to be the first generation that actually
builds trust funds for their own kids
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