Is our generation going to continue paying black tax?
My grandparents had a nice home. They were middle class earners with a very nice lifestyle. They married young and spent more than fifty years of their lives together until my grandfather passed away.
I spent a good portion of my life with my grandparents. Since they were well to do, we had unnamed distant relatives in form of cousins, sisters, aunts and uncles stay at the house. My grandparents always made room for people to stay. There was more than enough food to eat. They were comfortable. These folk came to Lagos for better opportunities, it was either for employment or education.
My grandparents accommodated and supported people. I watched people live rent free in a room in the house, eat three square meals and adapt to the household while they found themselves. The success of my grandparents was a result of hard work, they could take care of immediate family and other people. In other words, they had gotten to the top floor and had to send the elevator back down.
The thing about sending the elevator back down is that it allows for anyone to occupy its space, but what happens while they ascend the different floors. Will they be successful? Will they send the elevator back down?
