Why Do White People Despise Blacks!
There is not doubt that the recent social media posts by white supremacists referring to blacks people as animals and uneducated dirty mass are mere symptoms of a much entrenched phenomena of racism. Anti-black racism has been the order of the day in South Africa and our twenty two years of democratic rule have dismally failed to uproot its causes. Why do white people despise blacks? Why is it that they find it easy to look at us with disgust and undermine our humanity?
The answer to this question lies in the structural organisation of blacks lives, the material conditions that have been made exclusive to black people. What colonisation and apartheid did, was to make poverty, hunger, under-education, landlessness and cheap labour part of the exclusive identity of black people from generation to generation. It did not matter that one black person, or a family, or a group were educated, maybe even better than other few whites, as long as the majority of black people lived in conditions of squalor, this remains the identity they all share.
A black revolution should therefore be about the structural transformation of the black condition as a condition of inhumanity. Until such a time, it is futile to expect any white person or white people as a group to respect black people or treat them like human beings.
The attitude of white supremacy, the idea that white people are brought up with, that psyche of being above blacks, rests on their privilege and advantage over black people. It rests on the reality that each day of their lives, from birth, their lived experience as a collective is to be served by blacks. From the people who clean their homes, streets, and schools, to the people to serve them in restaurants, markets and those that do all the menial work in the country. They are raised, some directly and others indirectly, to believe that blacks exists so that they can live a better life.
The point of the colonial project was precisely to achieve this fact, that as much as possible, there must always be millions of black people available as cheap and easily disposable labour for the advancement of the privilege of white people. The sooner we accept this as a country the closer we will get to the resolution of anti-black racism.