Black Neanderthals
I am a proud Black man. My favourite part about our very brief stay within this realm is that I get to do so as a Black man, living with my Black empress, nestled firmly in the warm bosom of an over 80% Black majority of this country(colony but y’know what I mean). I can literally go for days without the displeasure that arises from encountering and having to deal with any caucasoid mess. For the most part it’s heaven, but even the best of dreams can very rapidly become our worst nightmares, because not all skin folk is kin folk. There is this new pervasive trend permeating the South African polity,a proliferation of shameless, self-loathing, self-hating Negropeans with a spectacular lack of self awareness, persistently spouting unsolicited sentiments that harken back to the supposed glory days of an oppressive regime; a strange nostalgia that can only be described as apartheid apologism. Now I don’t want to risk giving any more oxygen to this raging fire of ignorance, because we do not care about the opinions of white supremacists on white supremacy… however it is crucial that we counter these nonsensical narratives weaponised against our Black race globally, particularly in lieu of the ability that white power has to perniciously corrupt and control people who look like us. Just as bro Malcolm said; “they will pay one of us, to kill oneof us, just to say it was one of us”. Revolution happens in phases, our part in the revolution is to educate the masses to raise awareness about the existence of a system that still dictates how Africans conduct our daily affairs.
Racism is the “predication of decisions and policies on considerations of a race for the purpose of subordinating a racial group and maintaining control over that group.” Racism is rooted in an ideology of inferiority, it is this pathology that underpins the fallacious doctrine of white supremacy, which created the conditions of inequality in the economic, political and social spheres which form the lived reality of most non-white folk in ‘post colonial’ societies. Racism can be of an overt or covert nature, and may occur at an individual level or at a collective (institutional or systemic) level. Individual racism is overt, like when Vusi Thembekwayo tweets “apartheid state machinery was capable” before launching into a senseless diatribe drawing flawed inferences and conclusions — the logic was a pedestrian mishmash of bottom of the barrel dog whistle politics — the more the chap expatiated the more the existence of some sort of apartheid sanitization program became evident!
Institutional racism is a systematic set of patterns, procedures, practices and policies that operate within institutions. Unlike individual racism, systemic racism is far more covert, and can operate independent of the proclivities of individuals within the system. Therefore, institutional racism manifests in the unfair or discriminatory hiring practices that exist within organisations, disparate income levels between people of different race groups, neighbourhoods allocated for occupation by non-white persons, the quality of education and healthcare available, as well as access to clean drinking water, electricity and healthy affordable food. The structures and institutions created during colonialism were of a European nature embodying European value systems and cultures, intended for the sole benefit of European settler colonialists. Hence these systems are inappropriate and inadequate for the creation of just and effective African systems of governance and administration. Institutional and individual racism constitute what is known as structural racism. Racism is a system containing multiple moving components working in unison to achieve specific outcomes, this system resulted in South Africa being the most unequal society on earth today.
The intellectually bankrupt culture of feigning ignorance and downplaying the negative effects of racism is part of a strategy to ensure we never address systemic racism and the legacy of apartheid colonialism; driven primarily by beneficiaries of whiteness as well as those few pliable Black people (see: Uncle Ruckus) who managed to successfully integrate themselves into the white supremacist system. This is why there is little discernible difference between the reasoning capacity of a “colourblind” white racist and that of a Black person who presumes their perceived personal success is due to “hard work”. Political analysis is empirical, it is based on facts; whereas political commentary is based on opinion, as such it need not be true. These mendacious coons must be challenged wherever and whenever they spew their anti-Black racist bile — not because we are correct but because young people look up to these characters.
There is a professor at the university of Stellenbosch, fittingly this is an institution that was at the forefront of formulating racist apartheid policies, who consistently pens some truly abhorrent opinion pieces masquerading as honest academic exercises. This professor insists on comparing apartheid(a crime against humanity) with the albeit failed governance of the ANC — mind you the ANC has neither sanctioned nor censured this senile old timer to date. Black people were poorer under apartheid, had little to no access to education, healthcare and amenities, were violated and exploited in the workplace, they were both over and under policed because despite there being resources allocated to policing Black communities very few of those resources were dedicated to actual investigative police work! Doctor John Henrik Clarke said: “In a revolution you’ve got no friends and you’ve got no relatives. You’ve got the people on your side and the ones not on your side. If blood don’t see fit to come on your side then shame on blood.” The ideologues spearheading this anti-Black revisionist project are easily identifiable, most have an affinity for minimizing or erasing the brutality of the apartheid past, they profess to be apolitical but always have an underlying conservatism(rightwing politics), they tend to denounce identity politics, choosing to rather focus on class struggles while shunning racial solidarity… basically, these charlatans are what happens when a person has a glossy STEM degree but the consciousness of a five year old! Elections are around the corner, and methinks this agenda has a lot more to do with influencing the outcomes of the elections many have described as watershed… time will tell, but trust your uncle will be watching closely ready to crush the cockroaches! Peace and Black power.