WHAT MAKES IT SO EASY FOR BLACK(AFRIKAN) PEOPLE TO BE DISRESPECTED?

 WHAT MAKES IT SO EASY FOR BLACK(AFRIKAN) PEOPLE TO BE DISRESPECTED?

One of the greatest tragedies of humanity is the disrespect and ill-treatment Afrikans are subjected to be it here in Afrika, Europe , America, Asia and all over the globe.

The Black body is never treated with the same respect and courtesy accorded to the Europeans , Asians , Arabs ,ect. The death of a Black person be it murdered by the State or as a result of tragedy it never brings the world to a standstill. The saddest reality is that even Black people have bought into the idea that the life of a Black person is worthless hence we as Black people ,especially Black men never think twice about visiting violence on each other. Take South Africa as a prime example the official stats point to a very grim picture which shows that Black men die more than any other group and they die at the hands of fellow Black men. This points to the reality that Black men have bought into the inferiority complex which has been hammered by the colonizer.

We can a trip to the United States of America as part of exploring further the disrespect and ill-treatment of the Black body. It is in the United States of America where Black men are subjected to the most vicious forms of violence by the State(police) , the well publicized murder of brother George Floyd by the police is a case in point. In the United States of America Black men are subjected to mass incarceration on the flimsy charges, therefore denying them an opportunity to raise their children which in the long run has a negative impact on the Afrikan family structure.It is not only the Police who continue harassing and subjecting Black people to the most vicious forms of abuse, the Europeans (Whites) in the United States of America have not stopped the KKK( Ku Klux Klan ) activities of terrorizing the Afrikan community.

Now let us return home to the colonial criminal entity called South Africa which is the epitome of the disrespect and maltreatment of Afrikans. In this country Black people continue to live like rats in their own country ,their native land, this is despite the 1994 Breakthrough or transition. 

Black people remain at the bottom of the human pyramid , continue to be slaves to the Europeans and now the Asians in the form of Indians , Chinese and the Pakistan nationals..

We are forever greeted by images and visuals of White people abusing and assaulting Black people, we even come across cases of White people shooting and killing Black people and claim to have mistaken them for a monkey or a dog. This reasoning is consistent with the racist belief or should I say conviction held by the Whites that Black people are not human enough.

The Indian , Chinese and Pakistan nationals have joined the fray in undermining and disrespecting Black people.

You do not have to go far to discover what I am talking about, all you have to do is visit the factories and businesses owned by the Indian ,Chinese and Pakistan nationals and witness the slave conditions they subject their Black employees to. In this factories or businesses Black employees are always paid late or are never paid at all, worse are even assaulted . The Labour laws are broken at will with no consequences at all.

The source of disrespect of Afrikans is the fact that we remain a powerless race with no economic muscle . Despite the 1994 breakthrough our economic situation has not changed for the better as the African National Congress has failed to address the structure of the economy.

Without economic power we will remain an economically dominated race.

After all POWER RESPECTS POWER!.

By

Teboho Sekhosana

Political and Social Activist

0844361494

sekhosanateboho9@gmail.com