Our Black Government is Racist, and therefore so are we

There is no kind way to put this, so gird your loins and swallow hard.
If you are black, and support our ANC led government, you are racist.

Some may not practice racism and many may be anti-racist. Others may mistakenly believe that we live in a non-racist epoch. Some may be left wing and others may be moderate or right wing – but the bottom line is that to be an ANC supporter in South Africa is to be racist.
Accepting this is the first step to recovery.

It is impossible to effectively take on, challenge and deconstruct black supremacy and racism if we do not comprehend and acknowledge that as black people we are automatically part of an African government-system that favors blackness over all other “races”, and that we reap these benefits at the expense of other races — regardless of where we fall on the “political” or “standard of living” spectrum.

We have to recognize that we are all, despite our ideologies, intrinsically bound up in the fabric of this liberal Communist inspired African system of domination, which bestows privileges onto us by virtue of the color of our skin, empowering us to undermine and destroy all that is “western-like”, and as long as we are demonstrating our loyalty to this doctrine, we are never “not benefiting” from our blackness.

The greatest challenge to us as black people, and especially to those who believe that they are transcending racism, is admitting to our own racist indoctrination and the very real possibility that we carry and practice unconscious racism. This is intertwined with the “carry over” feelings from the Apartheid era, which has understandably created resentment and the desire to accelerate the advancement of blacks, thereby encouraging us to overlook the return of bias, prejudice and discrimination - this time being directly and indirectly imposed on minorities, and sponsored openly by our ANC led government.

Black Consciousness is being tied to the reclaiming of the nation of Azania. It calls upon the Black people’s conscience, hearts and minds to rise up, to recreate and relive the life that was created by the Azanian civilization. A growing element of South African society, fueled by insecurities, are eager to recreate Azania. With full government cooperation, they have reinforced black superiority over other races and position us as the default human race that will realize the Azania dream.
In this Azania nation; blacks will be intellectually, morally and economically superior to all; this will be reinforced via language, family, psychological osmosis, history, society and social media discourse.

This black supremacist system of power, should the ANC continue to endorse it, will be in place for hundreds of years and will continue within our collective psyche of DNA memory. It will take a lot of undoing to extricate our psyches from that.
Under the current government sponsored system:
Our children will be inevitably racist even before they are born.
We are racist by virtue of black consciousness gone wrong, and our inaction of speaking out when we see institutionalized discrimination (no matter how it is justified).
We are racist through essence of still being tribal in our thinking, and by our tendency toward Xenophobia.

We are racist because we are black, and now even more so under the current ANC led government.
So what if you are born into this system?
We have no choice around our birth (as far as we know) but we do have a choice to learn from history and reject the roles we are endowed with by virtue of our colour.
The real questions arise later on in our development.
Are we comfortable with the status quo which privileges one race over others in all spheres of life?
Are we willing to be an oppressor of fellow human beings, especially when we were so recently oppressed ourselves, and know the feeling and ramifications all too well?
Can we do anything about it?

If we cannot live with the status quo the only choice we are left with is to become a race abolitionist.
There are no halfway measures in this equation.
For those who claim to be anti-racist or “non-racist”-- actions do speak louder than words.
We are either irrevocably race abolitionists or we are racist.
That is the hard cold truth.

If we are on the path of race abolition or anti-racism we must continue to recognize that this requires constant waking consciousness around our ongoing indoctrination as black Africans.
To remain on a conscious path we need to always bear in mind that we are recovering racists.
We need to be cognizant of our indoctrination and recognize that learned racism has been deeply embedded by our government in our lived-experience and has a way of rearing its ugly head even when we are not aware of it.

We can never assume that we are not racist and that we “get” western, or white people stuff. That is impossible really because we will never walk the path of a white person.
Empathy and solidarity are entirely different to speaking on behalf of or the appropriation of the lived-experience of people oppressed by blackness.
It is only by first recognizing and understanding our historical and personal embedded indoctrination that we can begin to diagnose and deconstruct the wider spectrum of ideological and systemic racism.
Until we do this we cannot work in solidarity with white people (and other minorities) to end racism entirely.

Working to end racism means working towards the eradication of the African system that privileges blackness. Is some “leveling up” needed to help those who were dis-advantaged for years under Apartheid – yes, of course!

Transforming only “certain things” and not everything is a fallacious and expedient approach to activism and helps maintain the ANC cronies and their advantaged comfort zone whilst paying lip service to anti-racism.

It is this halfway activism that perpetuates insidious and covert racism in the end and is as equally harmful as right wing racism.
Until a critical mass of black people are walking the path of race abolition and call out racism at every turn, we will never be able to rid ourselves of the ANC-Elitism, and claim to be living in a post-racist society.

The things black racist ANC supporters need to acknowledge:
We are constantly being told by the dominant discourse that we don’t have racism in this country anymore, or that racism died with Apartheid. We find black freedom fighters saying this, or blacks pursuing Azania preaching this. They don’t realise this quest in itself racist. Clearly the political pundits and leaders saying this are corrupt and benefitting economically from a cause that it has clouded their judgment.
Many black people deny that they are racist yet continue to show hatred, and discriminate against minorities.

Racist incidents are prevalent in our society which proves that we are not beyond racism and nor do we live in a color-blind-non-racist-rainbow-nation society.
There is always a deafening silence around these racist, violent, hate driven incidents from the larger black population, which either means that they do not care or they think they are not implicated in the incident.

Blacks are taught to not recognize systemic racism or their role in it, a web spun by our government to justify advancing their agenda to the detriment of minorities, and forcing the transfer of wealth.
Systemic racism is manifest in the discourse of domination that upholds racist values which are disguised in terms such as “reconciliation”, “emancipation”, “self-determination”, “and black consciousness”.

Without a doubt “rainbow reconciliation” is a false discourse peddled as an opiate for the masses and constructed to protect the ANC cronies, the well off, and the ANC black elite spinoffs.
Since the new race construct is based on a system of power and since blackness is the African system of domination over discourse, public spaces, media, sexuality, white people are the only people who “can be racist”. Of course since a large percentage of economic power still resides with minorities, this makes racism towards them easier to justify as part of “black economic transformation”.

There is an absence of interest in, or an inability to hear, what minorities are saying or think about the perpetuation of racism and black privilege and these views are seldom heard on mainstream media.
This renders these views invisible and the dominant black view is normalized and passed off as the only view that matters or makes sense.

There clearly is an urgent need for the entrenchment of programs to balance out the centuries of the systemic disadvantaging of black people. This should be accomplished with full support and participation from all races, without having to discriminate against minorities.
Black people reveal their unconscious racism by what they choose to remain silent about, for example the atrocious and systematic killings of minority-white-farmers, and their blind trust in the racist ANC.

By remaining silent on issues of systemic racism you are participating in the perpetuation of racism.
The growing black ANC elite and burgeoning black upper-middle class may have increasing economic wealth but they are unfortunately largely coming into their wealth by diverting public funds & illegally gained profits. All this while 16 million working poor have untenable living conditions that they are expected to, and forced to, endure whilst the ANC cronies live in relative, and often, obscene wealth.

The future for minorities has become dire in South Africa while black elite owned business thrive with their corrupt practices, hidden behind the ANC cloak.
We can’t overlook greed and mismanagement as a factor as well.

Corporate accountability is virtually absent in mainstream discourse and the business-owned mainstream media seldom focuses on the role that corporates play in the growing divide between the rich and the poor and the multiple layers of injustices that this sector wreak upon the poor.
The poor carry the economic burden of this savage capitalism and are expected to happily accept hand outs and live in desperation whilst on the other hand restaurants and hotels are mostly overrun by whites who apparently have the disposable cash to spend on luxuries.

The hard cold truth of the matter is that until we have a majority of black people working towards genuinely dismantling government sponsored black privilege and systemic racism we are all implicated in the perpetuation of racism.

It is for this reason that we need to ask if black people are making any real effort to fully dismantle the ANC sponsored racism or if indeed, the effort is spent on preserving ANC privilege instead.
In a society where the rumblings of revolution are heard in the distance, black people need to let go of their arrogance or naivety and ask themselves whether a revolution is going to have any sympathy for the obdurate nature of black consciousness and its refusal to genuinely become part of a just transformation that demands the equality of all its citizens.

May this article allow you to deeply reflect on what blackness is and learning how to undo the disturbing racist policies supported by our government?

Forward with radical social transformation, forward! By Chris Mapassa Former black Racist (also former ANC Member).

Menzi Solomon Shange

 Published on South Africa Today – South Africa News

Power to the People Patriotic Alliance disrupts DA Meeting VIDEO

Gayton McKenzie founder and leader of the Patriotic Alliance (PA) attacked the Democratic Alliance (DA) and Helen Zille at a meeting. Ranting and raving like a lunatic, shouting power to the people, cheered on by the followers. McKenzie said the people are suffering, and the DA did not care about the colored community. Children are dying, people have no homes and suffering in the cold. The man reminds us of Julius Malema, always criticizing.

The DA as always remained reserved and did not reciprocate to the abusive and destructive behavior of the PA followers who vowed to disrupt all meetings of the party. The PA are contesting the local elections and are hoping for a significant win in the Western Cape. 

Voting for the PA political party would be voting for one criminal to another.  Corruption, poor governance, and greed are the identified factors of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the PA express a similar trait.  The abusive and disruptive behavior at meetings is an indication of what power hunger politicians do for the sake of greed.

The people tend to forget that Gayton McKenzie might be a motivational speaker and string the voters along with the superficial voice of a better tomorrow. We need to remember that McKenzie was a convicted bank robber in partnership with Kenny Kunene, a former convicted fraudster, now a business person and socialite. The founders of the PA political party reminds the people that the same criminal elements of the ruling ANC are found in the PA.

The PA, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) are always badmouthing other parties. The ruling party the ANC does the same, criticizes the former apartheid government. The similarity between these parties indicates that it is always easier to pass the buck. Where is the initiative and focus, where is the originality?

Once again, the uninformed voters are conditioned into believing the hype and empty promises and it all sounds wonderful but the reality it is another story. The big question is who will be voting for Gayton McKenzie and Kenny Kunene’s political party the Patriotic Alliance.

Laura Oneale - published on South Africa Today – South Africa News

Soweto uprising June 16, 1976, remembering the past

Forty years have passed since June 16, 1976, turned into a bloody day for young students of Soweto. It all began during 1975 when the Regional Director of Bantu Education called for the practice of Afrikaans language in schools for certain subjects, including mathematics. A call for natural indigenous languages to be used for music, social lessons and religion that was unacceptable the students believed.

It was a time when there was the worldwide growth of resentment toward the South African apartheid system, the increase of 'black power' in the USA, and the impact of colonialism in Africa caused the system to show visible signs of weakening in the early 1970's. The black students, in particular, associated Afrikaans with Apartheid, and as English was a prominent language worldwide, they preferred English with a native African language as the official languages. This compelling instruction remained widely criticized, and teachers at that time raised concerns and said Afrikaans would discourage critical thinking.

 

It was during April 1976 that the students of Orland West Junior School went on strike and refused to go to school over the resentment of the Afrikaans language. Soon the rebellious students action began to impact on other schools who started to join the protest. The students demanded to be taught in English and said that they deserved to be taught equally to white children. Secret meetings and plans to have their voice be heard by the oppressive apartheid government took place during the following months. June 16, was the date set for a peaceful march to demonstrate the unity and power for change.

On June 16, 1976, an estimated 20 000 black students took to the streets and marched toward Orlando Stadium to protest against the use of the Afrikaans language in local schools.  The police had barricaded the roads, and the students advanced along another route. Several teachers marching alongside the children told them not to annoy the cops, and the students continued to wave placards as they walked to their destination. Waving banners with slogans such as "down with Afrikaans", and Vivi Azania", and the classic one, "if we must do Afrikaans, Voster must do Zulu".

It was supposed to be a peaceful protest, but the agitation of the students became evident when they began to throw stones at the police officers. A warning shot was fired by the police and that caused the students to panic. Screaming children started to run, and more stones were thrown in the direction of the police. Police dogs were let loose in an attempt to control the rioting, but the students stoned the dogs to death. The police fired more shots as the situation worsened and lives were placed in danger. Yes, the police fired shots at the children and the first child to die in the uprising was 13-year-old Hector Pieterson. It is his death that became the symbol of the Soweto uprising where 176 students lost their lives.

It was a day that turned into a war zone, between angered students and the police. A day when hospitals could not cope with the wounded and bloodied people. A day when the apartheid government set up emergency clinics to assist with the devastation of an unfortunate event. Nobody remembers the selfless acts of kindness.

The chilling events of June 16, 1975, heightened the separation between the internal and external conflicts of South Africa. A turning point for the South African Government to transform the apartheid system and yield to international pressure.

What is forgotten is how many white South Africans condemned the action and staged marches through the City of Johannesburg protesting the killing of the children. The country was fuming, and riots broke out in townships causing an escalation of the conflict. 

International condemnation of these acts caused the country to be viewed negatively around the world. The internal chaos triggered the currency devaluation and plunged the government into a crisis.  Drastic measures to remedy this misery and economic instability became a curse for the state. The black resistance grew, and the government could not restore peace and social stability of the early 1970's.

The ANC continued their fight for freedom printed and distributed leaflets with the slogan "Free Mandela, Hang Voster". The ANC established a leading role in the struggle for democracy. The ANC requested the world to take action and impose sanctions against the apartheid regime.

The radical rise of political instability to the apartheid system and the strengthening international boycott since the uprising in Soweto became a reality for the government when their attempts to rectify the injustices failed.  The 1970’s and 1980’s claimed the lives of innocent people around the country. The ANC terrorist group and the Apartheid government used horrifying methods in the fight for freedom.

We tend to forget the innocent people who died and the severely wounded ones, from the actions of both regimes fighting for control. The ANC took responsibility for several bomb blasts around the country during this time where both white and black people lost their lives. We remember the students but are inclined to forget the others who died just as violently as they did.

After his release from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela said he acknowledged the debt owed by all black South Africans to students who lost their lives on June 16, 1976. No reference was uttered of the white, colored or Indian people who died during this dramatic turning point for freedom of South Africa.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu referred to Afrikaans as the language of the oppressor. Forty years have passed, and Afrikaans is still in use, and the born-free students continue to protest by burning down schools, universities and destroying property. What has changed since the Soweto uprising, especially for students? Education is no better now, and protests are the norm. South Africa, the apartheid system was wrong, as so is being ruled by a government that keeps people oppressed.

Laura Oneale  - published on South Africa Today – South Africa News