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  • we had to make sacrifices that they didn't understand.

  • Nobody sees that our grocery bill was insane.

  • Black tax can be summed up as a duty that the child has to the family.

  • Most off the time we find that our families give up so much to ensure that we get the degree.

  • And once we get the 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 weight, especially the text.

  • I would rather say family responsibility.

  • Okay, we do grow up in communities that are far behind.

  • Sometimes it's actually quite nice to start empowering people in our communities.

  • If 123 people are giving you know through it means the greater community is gaining.

  • So in order for toe uplift our people, I'm happy toe really do what I can.

  • Black Tex has both negatives and positive.

  • The positive thing for me is ensuring that a nephew get the much needed education.

  • But on the downside, it means that I personally have to make a lot off sacrifices.

  • So a lot of people do struggle with that, mainly because the obligation is engraved within us like deep mentally, it has definitely going to find.

  • I think it's still going too far for a number of people, mainly because off the inability to set boundaries.

  • At one point I had to pay for my younger sister's tuition fee.

  • E 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 off what I have done for myself and the others members off the community, I think that it's wealth.

  • The thing is, if you're always coughing up money, you're not actually not going to be able to progress because it's a lifetime commitment.

  • Actually, I think that the budget off, how much you can afford, how much you can give them and how far you are 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 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 great future.

  • We want our kids to be the first generation that actually builds trust funds for their own kids.

we had to make sacrifices that they didn't understand.

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