From left to right: Dineo Ranaka and Nandi Madida. Pictures: Instagram and supplied Media personality Dineo Ranaka has responded to criticism following her comments on a viral video by Nandi Madida. Madida recently appeared on L-Tido’s podcast, where she spoke about the social and economic challenges faced by black men.
“People don’t have support from the government. Your 400 years of being oppressed, where is this money going to come from?” Madida said. Taking to Instagram, Ranaka said she disagreed with Madida’s point of view.
How she said it and to whom she was saying it. And the climate in which we live, and how what she said will be understood and misconstrued by the very men she’s campaigning empathy for,” Ranaka wrote. She said she struggled to relate to Madida’s argument based on her own observations, rather than personal experiences.
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“Now I’m not saying be without empathy. But I’m saying don’t be careless with it. We can’t just willy-nilly feel sorry and not hold accountable,” she said.
Ranaka added that she believed empathy for black men should be balanced with responsibility. “Slow down on throwing a pity party for black men who aren’t fighting for the economic emancipation of the black nation at the same level of the empathy required,” she said.
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