BLOG: ‘Dying Seeds’ (Cape Flats Karma™ – Planting The Seed) by Earl Albert Mentor

BLOG: ‘Dying Seeds’ (Cape Flats Karma™ – Planting The Seed) by Earl Albert Mentor

WHY THIS PLANT REFUSED TO BE PLANTED, WATERED & NUTURED My Journey from Long Street to Main Street I remember at the age of 9 I found myself roaming the streets of Cape Town begging with my childhood friend called Reimpie (grew up together in Petunia Court). Begging was never part of my plan, but… […]

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Planting The Seed: ‘To ignore the fact doesn’t change the facts’

‘To ignore the facts does not change the facts…’ All my years of researching and studying the inner workings of the powerful force of our mind, particularly amongst POC, i have found some repeated decorative design that we as a people have dangerously created in our mind and life in general. This is based merely… […]

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‘The Silk Cloth & The Bed Of Thorns’ – Our Mental Health Issues

https://youtu.be/mkYSUaQYB2c ‘Deep Trauma that Lead to Deep Mental Issues’ We are constantly in a state of tension in our communities which inevitably lead to unconscious behavior that elicits the conflict in our personal lives and amongst our own. What this formula for conflict teaches us is that we need to be slaves under the rod… […]

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Planting The Seed: ‘I want be appreciated & loved’

‘I appreciate you more because of the road I’ve traveled. My story brought me to you, and I wouldn’t revise a word of my past if it led me anywhere but to your door.’ – Aaron Polson   It was tough growing up as a teenager. A young man always searching for love and appreciation.… […]

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‘Concentration Camps’ – by Earl Albert Mentor (Cape Flats Karma BOCS™)

I barely recognize my own, with sunken eyes and puffy skin and a blank stare that constantly reminds me of our people living in marginalised communities on the Cape Flats and Township areas who’d suffered massive personal devastation. Mourning for me as a custodian for positive change in my line of work is not an… […]

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Planting The Seed: ‘Opportunities Lost’

‘How dare you settle for less when the world has made it easy for you to be remarkable?’ – Seth Godin When I was young I was always told that I would never amount to anything because of my rebellious nature. This came from my teachers that seem to have gotten it wrong. I almost… […]

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‘Degeneration Of Coloured Seeds’ (Why we are in this mess)

DEGENERATION OF COLOURED SEEDS “Within this darkness of mine, I try to seek and find, one tiny hole so I can spark the light in my mind.” – Earl Mentor 1970 census, the Coloured people were distributed as follows:  Classification of the Coloured People, 1970             Population classification Census Distribution Coloured Asian Cape Coloured 1 914… […]

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Coloured On Coloured Crime: Part 1

“It’s okay if you hate me, I hate me too.” It had been a good 16 years that I have researched the make and break of our people residing in high-risk communities in Cape Town, South Africa. ‘Marginalised People’ having to endure the painful reality that much of what limits us in our lives is our… […]

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