The Public's Opinion
I'm not going to say much about this because I want the public's view more than anything else. So,a few minutes ago i was scrolling down a few stories and one was about a woman who sees colour [Check out the Being Colour Blind: The beautiful shades of South Africa to understand what 'm talking about] and let's just say she also pulled a Zoe or had a Zoe moment with a police officer [not a very smart thing to do now is it Vicki Momberg?] where she was throwing verbal insults and on her hate/racial slur tip and allegedly stated:"I don't care what anyone says, I don't like a single black in Jo'burg [Johannesburg] " so after that she was fined R100 000 to offer Clement Mkhondo by the Equality Court [extracted from the Destiny Man]. I honestly don't think it was befitting because let's face the facts, she still hasn't learnt her lesson whether or not she loses a few Rands- She'll still be a bitter, racist white South African woman so maybe she should have been given a life sentence. So i also decided to check out the comments and i;m positive enough to say that the Colour Blind few will agree with me but then i came across a comment which triggered my concerns on what I'd like to call, Politics of Reverse Racism. I won't the dude's name but I believe that he is a White South African and well, we're all entitled to our own opinions which is why i am also adding my 2 cents on this. So his comment under this topic read:
The punishment never fits the crime her [here] in South Africa [.] we have different punishment for whites if they are deemed to be racist and blacks are never racists give me only one example were a black person who utter racist remarks were punish.
Hmmm got me thinking there Joe [Not his real name]. So i guess my guess my question to my emancipated reader is: Can black people be racist? Does reverse racism exist in the new South Africa? During my short lived time as contributor for the Sunday Tribune Youth Edition, one my sources and I briefly engaged on this issue and her reasons can be interpreted around the idea that Black people can't be racist because there are not derogatory, psychologically diminishing and slanderous terms that can be used for White people. the supposedly offensive term 'Mlungu'in the Nguni language is directly translated as 'White person' which is their social classification but if we had to compare that to the numerous terms used for people, i.e, Zoe diction, the stigma that is attached to being a Black South African citizen - that's enough to destroy that person completely so if we're looking at it from that perspective, linguistically of course, I would concur. But let's look at definition. A racist being is someone who indicates [Zoe] or feels [Vicki] discrimination or prejudice against people of other races or who believes that a particular race is superior to another. Its a chauvinistic disease, a virus of pure hate be it consciously, subconsciously or unconsciously- I don't care. If you are prejudice by nature- you need help because you're suffering. In my few year of experience I've heard a lot of hate speech from black people, which is understandable from my view- we've suffered a lot from the oppressor and it led me to believe that maybe reverse really does exist. so I am asking you today, What are your thoughts on Reverse racism and should equal punishment be enforced for supposed racist commentary by black Africans even though, there hasn't been much or any discovered or heard-of bigotry terms for White African citizens?
Well I haven't come across any and willing to learn from different opinions.
-Stay Liberal.
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