Link.Andile Mngxitama
The Economic Freedom Fighters are the only party truly set on redressing apartheid inequalities, and through that whites can finally find salvation.
Why should white people vote for the radical new political party led by Julius Malema? The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) does not mince its words, it stands for the expropriation of land without compensation and nationalisation of mines and banks. EFF basically wants to end the 350 years of white domination that started with the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in 1652. The white and black relations over this time have been defined by conquest and subjection of black people by a settler minority that has become an economic, political and cultural majority in a foreign land it has usurped.
Whites domination has been so complete that in South Africa, that whites haven't even bordered to learn the native languages, instead they have forced blacks to learn white languages and as part of cultural domination even forced blacks to have white names for easy instruction as servants. In fact, in the eyes of whites blacks are impersonal mass of labour suppliers, we could all be Pieter, John or whatever the individual white wishes. Growing up in the old Transvaal now North West province, it was common occurrence that a random white would call a black they have never met before by any name they wished and the black would sheepishly comply to the erasure of their beings. Basically, whites could do as they wish with blacks, literally.
Jani Allan has asked me on Twitter to write her a letter, to try persuade her as a white woman to vote for EFF. As a Black Consciousness adherent, I generally have nothing to do with whites, I honestly believe that whites owe blacks such a huge debt they can never repay in full. But I also believe the responsibility for redress is a burden of black people alone. We blacks must determine what it would take to get reparations without regards to the feelings of those who benefited from our oppression.
Allan is the disgraced and ostracised one-time supermodel and influential Sunday Times columnist. She is currently in the USA, working as an overqualified waitress. Allan has been ******ised for her alleged romantic transgressions with the now late arch white supremacist Eugène Terre'Blanche?. Those old enough would remember the scandal of peeping through keyholes and tattered green underpants. Vile stuff of friends' betrayal and tabloid destruction of personalities.
The treatment Allan suffered is generally what the white world reserves for blacks, that is why I believe she has been temporarily ******ised, a little like what Hittler did with Jews, the holocaust is what defines whites relations to blacks since the begging of our encounter. Jews were “"******ised", as the Afro-American scholar Cornell West says.
I have a weird sympathy with Allan, I believe she was punished as part of the general white psyche designed to shirk responsibility by sacrificing one or two whites to absolve the rest from blame. Allan’s association with Terre'Blanche was used as a mechanism to claim moral superiority so that collective accounting for the oppression of blacks is removed from view. She is basically a scapegoat. Anyway, it's almost four months since Allan asked me to write the letter. I know such a letter would be a futile exercise, the majority of whites will respond as all guilty people do, by denial and derision. I will be called a mad racist. But I think even then we must indulge whites sometimes, so that no one says I didn't know on the day of reckoning.
Whites must vote EFF because it's the only party that provides a path to salvation out of the terrible burden of unearned privileges of whiteness founded on the mass murder of blacks. The Khoisan were decimated from the surface of the earth by whites. Furthermore, the current wealth and relative security provided by suburban life while blacks are condemned to townships and squatter camps is a direct outcome of land theft and forcing blacks into a labouring class in the kitchens, gardens, farms and mines of white owners. Whites' wealth is created on the slave wages of blacks. Whites are the beneficiaries of genocide, land theft and are a group that lives off of the continued exploitation of blacks - what we can call the generational white curse. No white is immune or above this curse. The circle has to be broken so that new relations can be founded on a different foundation completely.
There is a truth that can't be shied away from forever: as long as there is no historical redress, whites will correctly be seen as usurpers. It doesn't matter how long they have been here, so long as they have the land and wealth and blacks are excluded then the curse shall cascade to generations to come. And every generation of whites shall try to perform its position as master as we see with the emergence of neo-Nazi groups at white universities by white children born after 1994. They believe they are the master race, and the material reality confirms this terrible belief. And why wouldn't they, when the only blacks they see are the cleaners, domestic workers and hungry desperate job seekers that come to their parents?
EFF seeks to end these relations of coloniality and white supremacy through radical economic redress. This is the only path to black salvation out of the indignity of poverty, dispossession and defeat. Ironically, the same path is the only way to break the white curse so that the status of whites as beneficiaries of theft and genocide can end. But whites have over the ages covered themselves in hypocritical justifications, including the absurdity that their relative comfort comes from hard work, when it has been blacks doing all the hard work. The denial runs too deep.
White supremacy breaks down class differences amongst whites. It creates white solidarity against reparations claims of blacks. It has been interesting to see how relatively poor whites, including those struggling to pay their rent and bonds would protest against land redistribution. These are landless whites. Land in South Africa is owned by only about 50 000 white families. Similarly, it has been a marvel to see how, on social media, whites have decided to stand with Johan Rupert, the global capitalist who owns large chunks of our economy against EFF. It is race solidarity that makes whites go against their best interests.
If whites read the EFF Manifesto without race prejudice (an impossibility) they would have seen that in fact, justice is good for all, more so when it redresses historical injustices. Without breaking the white curse, our children and their children and all our progeny shall be confronted with this ugly reality. It can be said that white supremacy has a massive blind spot and parties like the Democratic Alliance are exploiting it for short term gains. Black are a majority in South Africa, sooner or later they will claim their redress and lets us hope, like the poet Don Mattera, that it wouldn’t be too late for the whites' children whose fathers raped the sea and sand.
For whites to vote EFF is to vote for a shared future that works. But as we all know the privileged are not in the habit of voluntarily surrendering their power. This leaves the dispossessed with no option but to reclaim their lost land and dignity by any means necessary. Whites have the burden of whiteness, a burden that they have no immediate desire to shed. Blacks also have a burden to redress the past; it is a burden that can’t be tolerated much longer.
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Why whites must vote for the EFF
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ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
Read the first paragraph and stopped... Andile can go and Fsck himself very violently
I stopped reading after that part. NOT a good way to get my attention in an article when I get addressed in that kind of generic fashion :/
I imagine you got as far as me then?
OrbitalDawn
Ulysses Everett McGill
Complete piffle, as expected.
Zewp
Banned
What salvation do I need? Salvation for deeds I had no ****ing part in? Jesus, will vultures like this never let Apartheid go?
In 2094 we'll probably still be hearing about how the whites must make up for past transgressions. Thank god I won't be alive then. I hope.
In 2094 we'll probably still be hearing about how the whites must make up for past transgressions. Thank god I won't be alive then. I hope.
Bobbin
Honorary Master
I stopped reading here... "I honestly believe that whites owe blacks such a huge debt they can never repay in full."
Kornhub
Blackburn Fan
Redeemed you are one hell of a troll
We're already told about 300 years of slavery so expect that excuse to be whipped out for at least another 280 years...
Compton_effect
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I'll pass.
I saw some EFF members in action today. and I was both impressed with their initiative, and at the same time very uncomfortable how easily they did it.
I do not want to live in a country where they in any way have a impact on our laws or government.
I saw some EFF members in action today. and I was both impressed with their initiative, and at the same time very uncomfortable how easily they did it.
I do not want to live in a country where they in any way have a impact on our laws or government.
Jabberwocky
Expert Member
Stopped reading after the first sentence.
Don`t need salvation, don`t owe anyone anything, would have been better off if I was born where my distant ancestors came from.
Even though the ancestors that did come here worked harder than a motherF*&^ to carve out a life for themselves in this godforsaken craphole of a continent they have nothing to do with what I owe anybody.
As for myself, I`ve contributed way more than I`ve taken from this leeching economy. So f#@#$ you
The white guilt card has been overplayed.
Don`t need salvation, don`t owe anyone anything, would have been better off if I was born where my distant ancestors came from.
Even though the ancestors that did come here worked harder than a motherF*&^ to carve out a life for themselves in this godforsaken craphole of a continent they have nothing to do with what I owe anybody.
As for myself, I`ve contributed way more than I`ve taken from this leeching economy. So f#@#$ you
The white guilt card has been overplayed.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
There can be no reconciliation in the systematic rape and economic ruin of a country.
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Fudzy
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Guilt festers itself in denial AND anger which makes your post a little ironic.
Jabberwocky
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Words of nonsensical wisdom breeds itself in hands devoid of white guild cards.
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porchrat
Honorary Master
Jesus Christ I didn't believe there were racist people like this any longer. I was a baby when Apartheid ended. I had no part in it and I don't owe you a damn thing.
adrianx
Expert Member
OP - I don't understand your signature. I think my white brain is not in tune with nature (or something). Please help me!
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I vote that there should be a poll about how far the readers got. Something like...
One sentence or less
First paragraph
Less than half of the "article"
Completed, proceeded to drown sorrows in Listerine.
One sentence or less
First paragraph
Less than half of the "article"
Completed, proceeded to drown sorrows in Listerine.
Jabberwocky
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got stuck at "Mngxitama"
Grant
Honorary Master
I got to the end.
I was fascinated - reading that was a little like driving past a 10 car pile-up on a freeway - could not avert my eyes !
Andile Mngxitama = vervoed & Terre'Blanche rolled into one, but wrapped in a black skin.