Apartheid, Colonialism, White Supremacy: Affirmative Action for White People

Apartheid and colonialism were affirmative action systems for white people, and I have come to the conclusion that they can only thrive when they suppress us.

Let me explain why I believe this.

It’s a good thing that some time has passed between me deciding what this column would be about and me actually sitting down to pen it because I have had a chance to calm down.

Whenever I write while impassioned, I spend the next few weeks with my palm to my forehead, wishing I had not chosen to be so candid.

As soon as I saw Cupcake and Cheeto sit down for their meeting in the Oval Office, I knew I wanted to talk about current relations between South Africa and the United States (US), and the myth of the Afrikaner genocide.

The first thing I want to make clear is that this is an issue that is most certainly my business.

I may not be South African, but because our countries have such an intertwined history, their global and local politics continues to affect me.

The exact moment I chose to address this whole kerfuffle actually happened while the South African and American heads of state were sitting opposite each other, one grovelling, the other lying through his teeth.

Cupcake (South Africa’s president) had to bring a delegation of white people with him because he knew the US administration would never dare listen to a black person, but as soon as his fleet of whites started debunking the Afrikaner genocide lie, the US head started ignoring them.

Then, for some reason, Cheeto (I’m going to keep calling him that) allowed his friend to speak to the room and testify about the struggles of being a millionaire Afrikaner with multiple farms and properties.

This man’s job was clearly to corroborate Afriforum lies, but something he let slip told me all I needed to know.

No one else seemed to pick up on this, but he spoke about how crucial the allegiance between South Africa and the US has been, and thanked the country for assistance with the “war we had in Angola”.

This told me Cheeto was never going to listen to or accept the truth, not if his close friend and golfing buddy is grateful for turmoil in places like Cassinga, where many of our countrymen died.

I understand now that history always favours the more brutal and evil hearted. The ones who came with guns and suppressed everyone else have been able to rewrite history repeatedly and we are witnessing, in real time, their attempt to do so again.

In case you didn’t know, the term Afrikaner was originally adopted by a subgroup of the Orlam tribe, as a continental nomenclature.

The language that these subjugated communities constructed to communicate with settlers was a Dutch patois with Khoe, Malay and other influences. These were black people.

Years laters, in the wake of the Anglo-Boer War devastation, the Dutch slowly took the name and language for themselves.
I am telling you this story so you can see how they operate and see how easily they lie for each other, just as they’re doing now.

The funny thing is that I’ve seen so many of Cheeto’s fanboys suggest that farmers fleeing South Africa should “salt the earth first”. This is an evil practice common among the most vile, bitter racists.

It’s happened before all over Africa, where withdrawing colonial governments sabotage the country they’re leaving behind by destroying sewage systems, hiding city plans, burning buildings and assassinating pan-Africanist leaders and thinkers.

It’s all part of the same playbook, but I have a serious question: If we Africans are so inept and incompetent then why do you still need to sabotage us? If we really are just a bunch of uncivilised jungle monkeys who can’t build great societies, then why not let us fight among ourselves?

Why not let us destroy ourselves if that’s just who we are?

It must be some form of jealousy or mental illness to be so butthurt that we can actually stand up for ourselves. It’s like threatening to leave a toxic man and he tries to impregnate you to make you less attractive.

For me this is just further proof of my divinity as a black person, because I can’t see any other reason for there to be such a thirst to keep us down and hold us back. This is proof that they can only thrive when the rest of us are handicapped.

I can’t see any other reason for them going on a global campaign of subjugation, brutality and immense cruelty that lasted so long they’re trying to convince themselves they are native to this area.

The truth is, white people, Afrikaners especially, would not be able to handle any actual oppression if this is what they consider genocide.

They are too fragile. It’s not a trait we should necessarily be proud of having, but black people have endured and can endure such deep levels of hatred and malice and still be here beautifully, holistically, artistically and vibrantly.

Maybe that’s why they hate us so much.

– Anne Hambuda is a writer, social commentator and poet. Follow her online or email her atannehambuda@gmail.com for more.

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