Why blacks can't be racist

The danger of not grasping the full meaning of blacks can’t be racist is playing itself out with tragic consequences.

It is blacks who are being punished for racism, not the historical and ­contemporary authors and beneficiaries of the system of racism.

In one week, a black columnist was fired for writing a satirical piece (she regularly writes offensive ­material).

The swiftness with which Kuli Roberts was removed from the pages of Sunday World serves as a warning to blacks not to raise the race question.

Gareth Cliff was rewarded with a presidential lunch for insulting blacks, including the president. Roberts loses her column?!

Jimmy Manyi is currently under extreme pressure as a result of comments he made about coloureds and Indians.

If he loses his job, then we can safely assume that any black who speaks about racism is fair game.

We shall be terrorised into silence.

We have to understand racism to defeat it.

A dangerous animosity within the black group has been orchestrated by extreme right wingers with the help of a media bereft of an understanding of anti-racism.

Is it not shocking that it was the anti-transformation and anti-black trade union Solidarity that dug up a year-old clip on Manyi’s comment about a coloured “oversupply” and then placed it on the public forum out of context?

Is it not ironic that it is the DA, a party of white interests, that has released a year-old clip on Manyi’s factually correct statement that Indians are over-represented in senior management?

Why now? And who stands to benefit?

What is even more shocking is the fact that Trevor Manuel has come out against Manyi with guns blazing. The Broederbond has come out to praise Manuel for being a true warrior of non-racialism.

Are we that stupid or is it because we have lost all sense of building a unified society based on values of justice? Has the ANC joined the DA to go to the ethnic gutter for the “coloured vote”?

Blacks can’t be racist for the simple reason that racism was created by whites to oppress blacks.

Steve Biko defined blacks as all the oppressed (African, coloured and Indian), but Biko’s definition has a proviso – that the oppressed identify “themselves as a unit in the struggle towards the ­realisation of their aspirations”.

Only blacks have suffered racist oppression from slavery, colonialism and apartheid.

Therefore, racism defines a specific act of oppression against a specific group who have suffered as a result of their skin colour.

If we do not maintain “conceptual fidelity”, we end up with the nonsensical situation where victims of racism end up being punished as racists when they seek justice.

To be sure, there are tribal prejudices among Indians, coloureds and Africans, but they are not of our making; they are the result of the divide-and-rule strategy of the apartheid regime.

The failure of the ANC to transform South Africa into a society that cares for blacks is responsible for recurring ethnic tensions.

Right now, our attention is removed from continued white racism under the ANC’s watch.

We are allowing whites to divide us yet again. It’s a sad day in our country and continet.Most Africa country employed uneducate white with jambo payment and expatriate allowance,when most educated citizen have no job or work and be paying pinut,Africa goverment must learn how to love their citizen,especialy Nigeria and sub shara Africa.