Predicament of being black and self-hating

THERE is no greater proof or showing of the predicament of blackness than the social reality of black people in Africa and the US today, where white supremacy and arrogance are accommodated. It then becomes difficult for any black person to still blame colonialism and apartheid.

There was state capture and corruption in South Africa from the time of our forefathers to the era of apartheid. But apartheid never failed to change the lives of whites in South Africa.

But what has democracy done under black people? Whereas the native problem was the basis for apartheid ideologies, disunity and self-hate are the backbones of exacerbation of underdevelopment and disempowerment of disadvantaged people.

It is this predicament that warrants the right for whiteness to question the reasoning capacity of Africans when they do not “understand”, and “condemn” Russia for doing what was previously done by their Western standards to Africans and other people.

Both the US and Europe did not really condemn colonialism and apartheid – not with the same passion that they do the war in Ukraine. There was never a European war even for control of any African colony, let alone independence of one, and there was never a military intervention on the scale of what we saw in Libya, or direct military assistance from the US and the EU against the apartheid regime.

That is because white South Africa assisted the allies against Hitler – certainly not for the sake of freeing black people! KHOTSO MOLEKO |