By Thando Sipuye
As long as the descendents of Europain settlers and invaders still occupy our land, racism will never end in South Africa.
The very foundations of this business enterprise were built on racism. The very essence of its socio-economic and political fabric is racist.
In South Africa, racism is normalized under the guise of constitutionalism and white demoncracy.
Black people in this country have been experiencing racism since the coming of the first whiteboy.
And the Black experience defines in essence what racism is - its motive of not only annihilating people, but also their culture, spirituality, memory and history.
In South Africa, racism is the invention and device of the whiteboy.
THE AIM OF RACISM
The aim of racism is not mere prejudice against the perceived other; its aim is to subjugate or exterminate.
This is what racism has done all over the world, with success in some parts.
This is what racism has done all over the world, with success in some parts.
Racism exterminated the Tasmanians, the Herero, the Twa, the Koi and the San.
Racism exterminates to perpetuate itself.
It kills to preserve itself and to advance the interests of the global white power structure.
CHARLES DARWIN THE RACIST
Charles Darwin, the father of scientific racism, is taught in schools. He is portrayed as a great man. "THE FATHER OF EVOLUTION".
Well, Darwin was also the FATHER OF SCIENTIFIC RACISM. All racists and white supremacist theorists and scientists used Darwinism as basis for justification for white supremacy.
Darwin believed in the superiority of the white race.
He went further to write in his book, The Descent of Man, that "at some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world".
Charles Darwin saw natural selection at work in the killing of indigenous peoples of Australia, the Aboriginals, by the British.
He saw natural selection at work in the killing of the Herero and Nama people by the Germans.
DARWIN EQUATED BLACKS TO GORILLAS
Charles Darwin believed Europains were highly evolved and that all other people. Afrikans in particular, were at the lowest level of evolution.
In the book, Descent of Man, Darwin equated Afrikans to gorillas and baboons. According to Darwin Blacks were at the lowest level of human evolution.
We therefore had to be enslaved and colonized in order to be raised to the highest levels of human evolution/ civilization.
The colonization, dehumanization, butcher and Europainization of Black people was simply a part of natural selection, the process of evolution in effect.
FRANCIS GALTON THE RACIST EUGENICIST
Furthermore, one of Charles Darwin's cousins was Francis Galton, the founder of the Eugenics Movement in America. Galton, like Darwin, also advocated the idea of the Europain as superior or highly evolved than all others.
Francis Galton started the Eugenics movement for the study of "human improvement" by genetic means. Galton believed in:
1. The idea of planned "human betterment" through selective mating - a system of arranged marriages between men of 'distinction' and women of wealth - to produce a 'gifted race' with 'evolved' mental qualities (i.e. white genius and talent).
2. Conscious intervention to avoid over-breeding by "less fit" members of society (contraceptives, abortion and sterilization amongst Blacks) and the under-breeding of the "more fit" ones.
Francis Galton established the Eugenics Movement study of human improvement by genetic means. Galton, following Darwin, wrote that: "Negroes were vastly inferior".
Francis Galton's Eugenics movement performed sterilization experiments on Black people, inoculated Blacks with infertility poisons.
MARGARET SANGER, FAMILY PLANNING & MARIE STOPES
Galton worked closely with the racist founder of Planned Parenthood/Family Planning Margaret Sanger as well as Marie Stopes.
They promoted contraceptives, abortion, sterilization and all other forms of preventing birth among Blacks. And in all their dirty racist work they referenced Charles Darwin.
All over South Africa, we have abortion houses named after these racist white criminals like Marie Stopes and Margaret Sanger. This country embraces and celebrates racists.
SOCIAL DARWINISM'S RACIST EXPERIMENTS ON BLACKS
Another of Darwin’s cousins, Sir John Lubbock, Banker, Biologist, Member of Parliament extended Darwin’s ideas to the study of social institutions and family property.
Lubbock developed the idea that inheritable property rights were the highest form of social evolution.
According to him society gradually evolved through stages and the rate of “evolution” in these stages was different for each race. The Europain was highly evolved.
The movement known as Social Darwinism was inspired by the work of Charles Darwin, and these Social Darwinists used Darwin as the basis for all their racist theories, ideologies and experiments.
Lubbock developed the idea that inheritable property rights were the highest form of social evolution.
According to him society gradually evolved through stages and the rate of “evolution” in these stages was different for each race. The Europain was highly evolved.
The movement known as Social Darwinism was inspired by the work of Charles Darwin, and these Social Darwinists used Darwin as the basis for all their racist theories, ideologies and experiments.
Consider the case of Ota Benga—a pygmy from Congo, who in 1906 was caged in the Bronx Zoo with an orangutan.
Remember the so-called Jews and Blacks in the gas chambers devised by Hitler to advance the Aryan “master race.”
Reflect on the Australian Aborigines hunted down in the 1800s by Europain evolutionists in search of what they called the “missing link".
What of the plight of many Afrikans throughout the continent who suffered brutally under anthropological and scientific studies conducted by white scientists and scholars.
Charles Darwin inspired all these barbaric cruelties conducted in the name of science and white civilization.
CHARLES DARWIN THE GLORIFIED RACIST
Yet, Charles Darwin is glorified as a great man. In fact Darwin is often listed as one of the ten most influential thinkers in Western history. He is celebrated and propagated as a progressive scholar.
Our children learn about him at school. They internalize his theories and write exams about it. And not once are they told that Charles Darwin is the FATHER OF SCIENTIFIC RACISM.
So, in the greater scheme of things, the likes of Penny Sparrow and Gareth Cliffs of the white world are justified in their perception of us. Afterall, in South Africa racism is institutionalized - repackaged, disguised and normalized. Racism is the South African way of life.
BLACKS AS ADMINISTRATORS OF RACISM
And sadly, today Blacks are also its administrators; they pass racism on to their children as general workers, teachers, nurses, police, lawyers, accountants, marketers and legislators in white institutions. In all these roles, Black people reinforce and legitimate racism as the basic standard and norm of life.
As such, Black people willingly send their children to be trained to be qualified slaves for white corporations, institutions and businesses. We have no power, no authority, no respect in the world.
RACISM, A NORMAL WAY OF LIFE
Black people have not only internalized racism, we have accepted it as the normal way of life.
It has become acceptable that Black people belong in the townships, squatter camps and ghettos similar to those Hitler built for Jews in Germany.
It has become acceptable that Blacks are the burden bearers, garden cleaners, maids and helpers, waiters and waitresses, security guards, managers, officers, officials etc. of whites and their institutions.
It has become acceptable that Blacks should live with white killers, robbers, thieves and rapists like F.W. de Klerk, Pik Botha, Eugene de Kok and Clive Derby Lewis - in the name of demoncracy and reconciliation.
Throughout this country, white racists are glorified and invoked. The cities, towns, street names, rivers, mountains and oceans in this country are named after white racists and killers.
RACISM, AN OPEN SECRET IN SOUTH AFRICA
And so we must not act surprised when the likes of Penny Sparrow, Chris Hart or Gareth Cliff reveal white racism overtly.
Today racism in South Africa is an open secret. It's concealed under the guise of white liberalism, constitutionalism and democracy. But everyone knows it's there.
Today racism in South Africa is an open secret. It's concealed under the guise of white liberalism, constitutionalism and democracy. But everyone knows it's there.
After all, the dispossession of Blacks in this country was an act of racism by racist invaders and killers.
The continued dispossession of Blacks under the ANC regime is still racist.
The ANC thus protects racism on one hand and claims to fight it on the other.
Double standards of an organization which serves two masters - the oppressor and the oppressed. But we all know that "you cannot serve two masters".
The continued teaching of a white curriculum to Black students is racists. Continuous glorification of racist white scholars and ideologues as "great thinkers" in institutions of learning in this country is racism.
The continued dispossession of Blacks under the ANC regime is still racist.
The ANC thus protects racism on one hand and claims to fight it on the other.
Double standards of an organization which serves two masters - the oppressor and the oppressed. But we all know that "you cannot serve two masters".
The continued teaching of a white curriculum to Black students is racists. Continuous glorification of racist white scholars and ideologues as "great thinkers" in institutions of learning in this country is racism.
ANC TAUGHT BLACKS TO FORGIVE RACISM
It is the ANC government that taught Blacks to forgive racism, and accept it. Ruthless murderers were forgiven. An evil man like P.W. Botha was given a state funeral by the ANC. Can you even imagine the Jews giving Hitler a state funeral and flying their state flags at half-mast for him? This is what they ANC did to Blacks in this country.
The ANC tricked Blacks into forgiving whites like P.W. Botha and recently freed Eugene de Kok for his evils against our people.
Yet the white Jews in this country show us everyday that they hate Hitler and all who conspired with him to kill Jews in Germany.
So in essence, it is wrong for Blacks to hate whites as their historic enemies, but it is right for Jews to hate theirs?
Yet the white Jews in this country show us everyday that they hate Hitler and all who conspired with him to kill Jews in Germany.
So in essence, it is wrong for Blacks to hate whites as their historic enemies, but it is right for Jews to hate theirs?
CRIMINALIZING RACISM - WHITE RACIST CRIMINALS
If the ANC now wants to criminalize racism, they must know that all whites in this country are criminals.
All beneficiaries of evil are evil.
Whites in this country benefited and continue to benefit from the rape, exploitation and plunder of our land and its mineral resources.
They are criminal settlers. The Oppenheimer family must be number one on their arrest list.
All beneficiaries of evil are evil.
Whites in this country benefited and continue to benefit from the rape, exploitation and plunder of our land and its mineral resources.
They are criminal settlers. The Oppenheimer family must be number one on their arrest list.
We cannot talk about racism in abstract in democratic South Africa.
Racism, in essence, is prejudice plus power. Racism defines the actions and behavior of white people against others, Blacks in particular.
Racism is white supremacy.
Therefore, anyone can be prejudice; but only whites can be racist.
Only whites have the power to be racist. And through their enormous power, they have managed not only to universalize and institutionalize racism, but also to normalize it.
Only whites have the power to be racist. And through their enormous power, they have managed not only to universalize and institutionalize racism, but also to normalize it.
We must realize therefore, that the struggle against racism in South Africa is the struggle against the whiteboy.
