Reverse Apartheid Now!

The truth is white people would have ended apartheid 10 years earlier if we had just called ourselves ‘Rhinos’.

Don’t get me wrong; I love rhinos, and white people. But let’s get honest, melanin-deficient comrades included, white people still own just about everything except the government and Muvhango, and change often happens on their own terms. So what the frik is ‘reverse apartheid’?

Two weeks ago on LNN I interviewed the DA shadow minister of police, the queen of 80’s haircuts, Dianne Kohler Barnard. For the record, she is a DA member without fleas. Nice lady, but a bit mal. She believes we shouldn’t have quotas in Affirmative Action. Obviously when the DA makes tea they don’t stir. They just put the sugar in and hope. I am sure Ms Kohlernoscopy Barnard has a Rottweiler in her garden whose teeth have been removed, and that just sucks everyone away.

The problem when you talk about this kak is that right wing lunatics don’t know how to separate their racism from their economics. There is nothing wrong with white people. White people are just black people who are slowly realizing it. We must hug them. Unless you are Tiger Woods, because he will try have sex with you.

As I say, just wait until Msholozi finds out that white women don’t charge lobola. The coloured population of the country will triple… Although the problem with Lady Gaga is she’d just wear the lobola.

Come on pink pals, you are earning on average 6 times what black people earn, and have been doing so for generations. This didn’t happen because you are cleverer than us… Ja, we have seen 7de Laan. This didn’t happen because you were more deserving than us. It happened because some ous moered the hell out of us.

If we used Kohler Barnard’s logic then lazy men would never do the dishes. The dishes would just sit there until they do themselves. Kohler Barnard’s kids must love her, unless they are black.

A few backwards cavemen, escaped from the back of Dr Phillip Tobias’ bakkie shout “no, bloody hell man, its reverse racism man”. Are you stupid? Reverse racism? If you were any more illogical Jacob Zuma would use you for bond registrations (did he get compound interest?). Let’s be clear: the system was invented to back up white privilege. This system is still there. The majority in any boardroom or executive suite is just about always white.

The people who hire and fire are still mostly white. If you are white your chances in life are ridiculously better than for the average black South African. I don’t care if you worked your privileged little ass off, or if you only arrived in SA yesterday. Yes, this is a blanket statement. If that is upsetting, shame.

Sure, you probably applied for a job or two and never got it. Imagine that that happened to your great-grandparents, your grandparents, your parents AND to you. That’s what its like for most black people. So white people complaining about affirmative action is like Khulubuse Zuma complaining they gave him Canderel. Suck it up.

Ok, now the cavemen bras reading this are getting all sweaty: “but look at all these loaded BEE types, china”. They are a tiny, miniscule minority. Affirmative action and what we usually call BEE are two completely different things (unless you understand BBBEE, but we usually don’t).

What you are doing is like saying: ‘I don’t know why disabled people get all the privileges, Oscar Pistorius is fine’. Obviously I am not saying black people are disabled, unless you are Floyd Shivambu. The only thing that’s easy for Oscar Pistorius is shoe shopping.

So, ous who cry “reverse apartheid”, please be honest: you want to maintain the unequal status quo. Rather call it “continue apartheid”, because if you actually wanted to reverse apartheid you’d embrace Affirmative Action like it’s a presidential niece in a kanga and baby oil.

Chester Missing is a political analyst on Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola on eNCA and etv.

  • Rob

    Ag Chester, if you didn’t already have a white guy up there…

  • Rob

    Ag Chester, if you didn’t already have a white guy up there…

  • http://www.facebook.com/jacques.marneweck.5 Jacques Marneweck

    It’s not reverse racism its just racism You can cover it up put it in a bow and poor sugar on it. A race based law stays a race based law. In other words it is a racist law.The old NP party also made apartheid seem fair and equal buy saying it is to prevent communism and racial violence.Buy saying a race based law is good now is like saying apartheid was the best thing that ever happened. And the other point you made about most CEO’s are still white. That’s like white’s, Indian and colored people complaining that there are no king in Africa that repentance their race in the Zulu kingdom..

  • Darrell Lush

    Just some questions that I’d like Chester Missing to try and answer with honesty. Some ou’s have only being moering you for a ridiculously short period of time in the bigger scheme of things. Why then, is it that the white man crawled out of his cave long before you black okes did and why did he go about creating stuff before you even discovered fire and the wheel. Why is it that we whites are not the exploited ones? Why did the black man not advance as quickly as the white man, yet still claim to have been around longer in terms of history? Sies Chester…take a closer look at yourselve before blaming the white man for all your hardships. You allowed yourself to become exploited and you allowed youself to be technologically overwhelmed. Just read your history to ascertain the facts….but I guess you, being just as smart as white people never considered world domination…after all a bow and arrow is no match for an ICBM……now be a good boy and go find out what an ICBM is.

  • fancyness5

    darrel u seem to be missing the point chester is tryna make in his colum here.the backlog of apartheid is too wide.How can u even say that we allowed ourselves such exploitation and oppression?so ur basically saying had Madiba not forgiven the apatrtheid government and opted for peace then yall (whites) would hv allowed urselves the exploitation too?

  • Rachel

    As a middle class white woman, I agree with MOST of what Chester is saying. Most.

    I feel the black argument is to “other” white people as alien to Africa. Like black people have some greater claim to being “South African” than we do.
    This is a fallacy.
    Most black tribes moved into South Africa from the north. So did we.. we were just much further north and arrived by boat.
    But Chester my brother, you and I were born here the same.
    We have different surnames and parents, but the colour of my skin doesn’t make me less African.
    I pay the taxes you do. We went to the same school (in fact you probably had a better white collar school upbringing than my Plumstead high) my point is that we are all working TOGETHER for a brighter future for OUR country. You didn’t get here first. I’m like 3 years older than you friend. So technically i got here first :P

    I believe if our country adopted my attitude and saw our country the way I do.. not Black vs White vs Indian vs coloured vs quarter Asian etc, but rather as “South Africans” working together for all our best interests, then we’d already have a brighter future.

  • http://www.facebook.com/leighvn Leigh Van Niekerk

    Reverse apartheid – stupid concept. Ridiculous to compare decades of oppression to an unfavourable job market. Small problem with BEE being applied via quotas – quotas lend themselves to blind application; i.e. someone getting the job because they are black and not because they are the best person for the job. Ironically, it is often whites who think blacks are “all the same” who are most guilty of this practice.
    What we need is more blacks who have the skills to do the job. Maybe BBE quotas are better applied to education (right from the bottom up) than to business. At the very least, you can’t have the latter without the former.
    But perhaps it suits the powers that be for the majority of the populace to remain uneducated. As the Skunk Anansi song goes: “We love your apathy.”

    Just a thought.

  • Darrell Lush

    Fancyness…rather read my post again…I’m referring to black people allowing themeselves to become exploited long before apartheid was invented. At some point in history, the black man succcumbed to white dominance…this happened long before apartheid was even dreamed up…

    • Zukisa Prince

      Your knowledge is limited. If you really knew history, you wouldn’t be saying that

  • Ken J Lancaster

    I have recently started following you on twitter and enjoy what you have to say so maybe will continue to read your stuff. I live in BC Canada and you, no doubt, would be amazed to learn that apartheid is alive here which is a great shame because I left SA due to apartheid, the Nationalist Government and my family who left for better lives in UK and now in Canada. South Africa is a beautiful country with lovely people and it would be a shame if it was ruined by politics and greed. Best wishes, Ken

  • Ken

    But surely black people would like to know they got a job because they deserved it? Not because the company hadn’t filled its black people quota for the day?

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