Rambler…Of White Privilege

“I’ve noticed that you continually spew your venom at the ‘evil whites’ and I have a question for you which is of great importance to me: Exactly what is this ‘white privilege’ you often speak of?

My white-skinned grandson is one-year-old and I’d like to ensure that he benefits from it someday – his parents are ordinary working-class people struggling to make ends meet, they have no connections in ‘high places’ and don’t mingle with any elites.

Also, when he tries to find a job someday, he will, no matter his qualification, be last in consideration for any job because of the colour of his skin and the racially discriminative laws of this country. I’m worried about his future, so please tell me where I can organise him some ‘white privilege’ …” – zapata [sic]

This tragic comment was left under my column on The Namibian’s website last week.

I just can’t let this one go.

Zapata, my friend, your racism and ignorance must fall.

I apologise if I repeat myself.

I’ve said these things before but let me play my role as teacher.

Ignorance can never be used as a legitimate excuse for anything. Especially if you come across as supremely arrogant.

Zapata, my friend, you don’t have to organise anything for your grandson. His white skin has him sorted. He’s lucky enough to have the benefit of being both male and white. He was born with an advantage over his darker skinned peers, and over every woman he will encounter.

You see, whiteness is the norm in the world. Even here at the *rse-end of the dark continent.

Your grandson therefore doesn’t have to overcome any of the struggles that come with a black skin.

Struggles ‘r us!

How about people judging you on other black people’s mishaps? Having to prove, more than whites have to, that you are competent and able to do your job?

Just because he’s white and male, society will see your grandson as a leader, even when he’s a dipsh*t.

Black was wrong and white right and that’s how it’s always been since your people came here on a boat and raped our women and grabbed our land with your holy book and your guns.

The world is built for right-handedness. So it is for whiteness.

So you and your ancestors worked hard for everything you have today?

‘Tsek!

Your great great grandfathers had one hell of a scheme going all around the world with that slavery thing.

The kaffirs who worked for you, for free, for generations, sometimes in shackles, built up quite the little nest egg for you guys.

You have the 100-year-old breweries, big farms, hotels and retailers all built on the back of slave labour.

The offspring of the very kaffirs who built your wealth on their lashed, bloodied backs are still living from hand to mouth.

They are even now insulted by any manner of house negro occupying whatever political ‘power’ they think they have.

Unemployed is the default setting for black people and yet our dear leader, while cozying up to his white mates, turned unemployed and black into a slur for sh*ts and giggles.

And then they still have to endure your dumb*ssery.

White privilege is so far up your *rse it has made you blind to what’s going on around you.

Zapata, if you ever cared to step out of your cocoon, you’d realise how comfortably your children and grandchildren are living.

When public schools went to sh*t because government just couldn’t keep up with providing ‘equal’ education for all (and not just a handful white pupils), you guys left in droves and either put your privileged offspring in some posh boarding school in South Africa or established exclusive private schools ‘open’ for all who could afford it.

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