Racism laws a waste of energy

SHOULD we react to racist comments by enacting laws in Parliament? I don’t think so, because it is futile to legislate against attitudes, opinions and views. It is a sheer waste of time and energy, it is futile, puerile and symptomatic.

The ANC was quick to react and respond to racist and white supremacist comments by saying they were going to enact a law to punish people who suffer from neurosis and psychosis such as, for example, Penny Sparrow.

But many Azanian People’s Liberation Army (Apla) political prisoners have spent more than 26 years in jail and the PAC and Apla leaderships have been appealing to have them released, but those appeals have fallen on deaf ears. Yet apartheid war criminals and death machines such as Eugene de Kock have been released without conditions. How different are self-haters in the ANC leadership from neurotic and psychotic individuals like Penny Sparrow?

As African-American Psychiatrist Dr Frances Cress Welsing said, if racism is undefined and poorly understood there is general confusion and chaos on the part of the victims of that system and it becomes impossible for victims of racism to effectively counter it.

The ANC government is clearly confused and in a chaotic state. Another psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon, clearly dealt with racism in his book Black Skin, White Masks years beforeWelsing even became a psychiatrist.

He wrote that South Africa has a racist structure, as well as Europe. Penny Sparrow is part of that structure, which the ANC government failed to destroy by not treating the symptoms of racism but by confronting it through positive measures such as introducing anti-racist education by making books such as Black Skin, White Masks as well as Robert Sobukwe’s 1959 inaugural speech required reading in the education system.

Sobukwe said, in that inaugural speech “the Africanists take the view that there is only one race to which we all belong, and that is the human race. In our vocabulary, therefore, the word “race” as applied to man, has no plural form”.

Hiding or suppressing the teachings of intellectual giants and visionaries such as Fanon and Sobukwe is the bane of society and the ANC’s problem because the governing party wants to remove the memories of Sobukwe and Fanon from the collective consciousness of the African people at home and abroad.

The ANC was quick to react to the comments

Kagiso