Commentary

Apartheid in reverse?

JACKASS SEY DI worl' no level. Jackass read wan sittin wan white ooman write bout Sout Hafrika han haffi laugh 'heeeee haaaaaawwww!'

This woman was writing from the perspective of a white person visiting friends - white uns - in South Africa, a decade after Mandela was elected leader of the country. She spoke of the pervasive fear among white South Africans, in that they have sold their homes in the suburbs and retreated to gated communities; they have these panic buttons on chains around their necks, ready to press as they see it necessary (and that is often); and they generally feel unsafe in South Africa.

Hmm.

The writer went on to say that the country is worse than under apartheid, in that crime is up, racism (against whites, of course) is rampant and implied that blacks were better behaved and had more opportunities under apartheid.

Hmm. This woman sounds like un stupid daughter of a mule.

The world is not level at all, is it? Here is a white woman visiting South Africa saying how things were better under apartheid, yet has not even once considered the savagery that non-European, especially Black, people faced under that regime.

In a way, though, she is right. Because apartheid is not over yet. Sure, there may be one person (not man, person) one vote in the country, but little else has changed. The majority decides and the minority rules - much like how the 'democracy' that has been visited upon us is all over the world. In addition, the economics of the country still remains the same. The whites own and everybody else grabs the scraps that they can get.

This writer woman spoke of the economic divide and how things are going to get worse. Wonderful! Where did the economic divide come from? She even went as far as to say how Soweto was peaceful and a comfortable place for her to visit under apartheid, but now it was a place of sullen, resentful people.

Woman, it was always a place of sullen, resentful Black people. But if they showed it then, then chances are they would have ended up in a jail cell, depending on how far they went in expressing their resentment at being treated worse than dogs in their own land.

The world is not level, is it? Consider how white people feel now, from that woman's perspective. Then amplify that by countless millions and that is a small indication of how Black people felt under apartheid and probably still do in a situation where they are the least of the least in their own country.

And why should they not be angry? Why should they not be resentful? Why should they not be sullen? If the situation was reversed, Jackass is pretty sure this white woman writer would not be satisfied that the Blacks are pretty comfortable from the profits of a crime.

She want a jackass bite.

Jackass sey di worl' no level. Jackass sey de white people dem inna Sout Harfrica fi hol' tite. An some lan' an minerals fe tek whe roun' dere. Heeeeeee!