I am privileged.
It’s a pretty strange and intensely uncomfortable
place to be for me.
Privilege relates only to the rich,
the politician, royalty, people in power, those popularly known to be benefiting
from current gender, racial and socioeconomic arrangements. I am clearly none
of these...or so I thought.
In many ways, I am privileged. It dawned
on me as I rationalized the logical progression and impact of the corona-virus. It
registers whenever I consider the objects and coverage of policy measures
rolled out by governments across the world to manage Covid-19. I am left in no
doubt as I watch internally displaced persons in my own country and in other
countries trekking home in distressing circumstances due to the collapse of their already unsustainable livelihoods.‘We’re doomed. If we don’t die of the disease, we’ll die of hunger,’one of them is reported to have said.
So apparently for obvious reasons, I am
privileged.
I am embarrassed that I did not
realize this earlier. I am humbled that I occupy a position of privilege because to be
in a position of privilege is a privilege.
#lendahand
#lendyourvoice
#supportthevulnerable
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