OPINIONISTA: Dissecting White Genocide: What is to be feared and why? By Andile Zulu
to the South African Human Rights Commission, in a 2017/18 report, 64% of black citizens and 41% of coloured citizens live in poverty, while that circumstance is only maintained by 1% of the white population.
Of course, a lack of social consciousness isn’t a trait exclusive or inherent to being white. It is a particularly human struggle that cuts through categories of race, class or gender. For example, the cruel persecution of the LGBT+ community was somewhat dependent on straight people knowing very few, if any, gays or lesbians, or not caring to know them and only being told of the existence of “fags”, “sodomites” and “dykes”, but not of ordinary people like them.
The white gazes that look upon black faces as different, maybe as inferior, as faces whose bodies are imbued with an affinity for violence or as black bulks whose blood brews with a craving for revenge, such a perception is a historical artefact that can be traced back to colonial rule by the British. White fear in 2019 is the cumulative effect of institutions like apartheid pressing down on the psyches of its subjects.
Considering the inheritance of ignorance, and that it often flowers as fear, the seduction of minds by the propaganda of the alt-right isn’t surprising.
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