A week ago thousands of South Africans marched against the
ongoing farm murders in a campaign called “Black Monday”. Now I personally don’t believe in marching
and protesting to spread or bring awareness to anything– the government is well
aware, and in some cases, they are the problem in my opinion.
But out of all the negativity that we extracted from ‘Black
Monday’ we forgot to pay attention to the fact that nobody broke down, burnt or
destroyed anything. Yet, ‘Black Monday’ came under scrutiny for being called ‘BLACK
Monday’. How racist, right? Would it have been any ‘less racist’ had it been titled
White Monday? Probably not.
In my COLOURED opinion - since you might be wondering - I honestly believe that no matter what we call
a collective of predominately white people marching against farm murders that
are probably committed by predominately black people it would have been called
racist.
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South Africa has been a divided nation since before 1994 for
obvious reasons. But I feel our situation now is much worse. The apartheid
regime may no longer be in ‘constitutional effect’ but it is active. It seems
to me that the ANC has for a long time been trying to ‘turn the tables’.
Perhaps they wanted power but not to abolish apartheid and be Ubuntu and a Rainbow
Nation. Perhaps they wanted power as a result of the entitlement that they felt
- so that they may in turn be the oppressor. Perhaps a rather clouded
observation but let’s not dwell. I might be just as inaccurate as the farm
murder stats.
Which brings me to ‘Kill The Boer, Kill the Farmer’ – a song
Zuma and Julius Malema chanted and danced to. A song that was regarded as hate speech
and unconstitutional by the Equality court and the very song that Gwede
Mantashe defended by saying the above statement is impractical and un-implementable.
Yet in the 6 years that followed farmers, their families and their workers are
being attacked and killed.
Why was the singing of a song banned when the words have
become a reality?
At the beginning of the month DA, ANC and EFF members chanted
this song again as a WHITE man appeared in court for raping his BLACK domestic
worker. “Shoot the boere, they are rapists”.
How come nobody chanted to shoot Zuma when he was accused of
rape?
Because he took a shower afterwards?
So it’s okay for a BLACK man to still run and steal from a
country after he has been accused of rape but a WHITE man should be shot?
Good to know.
Coloured and Black people are killing each other – and allegedly
farmers – everyday. Children are going missing, they are brutally murdered (see
part one and two) by their uncles, their boarders, their parents. Do we chant
general statements such as ‘Kill the Parents’, ‘Kill the Uncles’, ‘Kill the
Coloureds’, ‘Kill the Blacks?’
Let me know if you have heard that. And for anyone who wants
to comment that ‘Kill the Boer’ is an apartheid song, please leave now – and go
write a new one.
But sass aside, the point that I am trying to make: Why when
a white person commits a crime, they are grouped as a collective? Why didn’t they
call for this particular man to be shot or killed as is done when a child is
killed or raped? You know who the alleged is and his name is not ‘the boere.’
So soon our violent
nation will go hungry because all the farmers are being killed – because Malema
said so? No wonder Kwazulu – Natal has resorted to cannibalism.
As a PERSON, I condemn the killing of any man, women or
child regardless of race, of skin colour, religion or creed.
- - Distressed Citizen
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