White Privilege in South Africa

White privilege was legally enshrined in South Africa through apartheid, which lasted formally into the 1990s. Under a7partheid, racial privilege was not only socially meaningful—it became bureaucratically regulated. Laws such as the 1950 Population Registration Act established criteria to officially classify South Africans by race: White, Indian, Coloured (mixed), or Black.

Many scholars argue that 'whiteness' still corresponds to a set of social advantages in South Africa, and conventionally refer to these advantages as "white privilege". The system of white privilege applies both to the way a person is treated by others and to a set of behaviors, affects, and thoughts, which can be learned and reinforced. These elements of "whiteness" establish social status and guarantee advantages for some people, without directly relying on skin color or other aspects of a person's appearance. White privilege in South Africa has small-scale effects, such as preferential treatment for people who appear white in public, and large-scale effects, such as the over-fivefold difference in average per-capita income for people identified as white or black.

If I was a White South African. These would be my #WhitePrivileges

1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.

2. I can avoid spending time with people whom I was trained to mistrust and who have learned to mistrust my kind or me.

3. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.

4. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.

5. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.

6. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.

7. When I am told about our national heritage or about "civilization," I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.

8. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.

9. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.

10. I can be pretty sure of having my voice heard in a group in which I am the only member of my race.

11. I can be casual about whether or not to listen to another person's voice in a group in which s/he is the only member of his/her race.

12. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods which fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser's shop and find someone who can cut my hair.

13. Whether I use checks, credit cards or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability.

14. I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them.

15. I do not have to educate my children to be aware of systemic racism for their own daily physical protection.

16. I can be pretty sure that my children's teachers and employers will tolerate them if they fit school and workplace norms; my chief worries about them do not concern others' attitudes toward their race.

17. I can talk with my mouth full and not have people put this down to my color.

18. I can swear, or dress in second hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty or the illiteracy of my race.

19. I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my race on trial.

20. I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race.

21. I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.

22. I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color who constitute the world's majority without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.

23. I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider.

24. I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to the "person in charge", I will be facing a person of my race.

25. If a traffic cop pulls me over I can be sure I haven't been singled out because of my race.

26. I can easily buy posters, post-cards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys and children's magazines featuring people of my race.

27. I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in, rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance or feared.

28. I can be pretty sure that an argument with a colleague of another race is more likely to jeopardize her/his chances for advancement than to jeopardize mine.

29. I can be pretty sure that if I argue for the promotion of a person of another race, or a program centering on race, this is not likely to cost me heavily within my present setting, even if my colleagues disagree with me.

30. If I declare there is a racial issue at hand, or there isn't a racial issue at hand, my race will lend me more credibility for either position than a person of color will have.

31. I can choose to ignore developments in minority writing and minority activist programs, or disparage them, or learn from them, but in any case, I can find ways to be more or less protected from negative consequences of any of these choices.

32. My culture gives me little fear about ignoring the perspectives and powers of people of other races.

33. I am not made acutely aware that my shape, bearing or body odor will be taken as a reflection on my race.

34. I can worry about racism without being seen as self-interested or self-seeking.

35. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.

36. If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.

37. I can be pretty sure of finding people who would be willing to talk with me and advise me about my next steps, professionally.

38. I can think over many options, social, political, imaginative or professional, without asking whether a person of my race would be accepted or allowed to do what I want to do.

39. I can be late to a meeting without having the lateness reflect on my race.

40. I can choose public accommodation without fearing that people of my race cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.

41. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not work against me.

42. I can arrange my activities so that I will never have to experience feelings of rejection owing to my race.

43. If I have low credibility as a leader I can be sure that my race is not the problem.

44. I can easily find academic courses and institutions which give attention only to people of my race.

45. I can expect figurative language and imagery in all of the arts to testify to experiences of my race.

46. I can chose blemish cover or bandages in "flesh" color and have them more or less match my skin.

47. I can travel alone or with my partner without expecting embarrassment or hostility in those who deal with us.

Women and Other things.

To many typical cases of pseudo-intellectualism involve pre-pubescent "15" year olds that think they have everything figured out, including, but not limited to: life, religion, politics, education, relationships and sex. Ironically, they have never quite experienced either of the aforementioned. 

Lemme share something with you about men but before I do never ever assume you understand and know men because they act different around you, don't come here with that bullshit yokuthi "Only boys think like that". Mina i say to you, when men are with other men. You'd probably faint if you eavesdropped a convos between your fathers and uncles, amazing. Stop claiming you know men, you know their dicks, men will always show the "other-side" in a company of women and strangers.

Anyway...next 

Go through "things" does not make you an expert. You crossed that path but that does not necessarily mean that you understand men. Stop bullshitting yourself, it's not cute.

As much as men have tried to figure out what women want, women think they have figured out what men want. Which is very interesting. One reads a lot blogs when pre-pubescent teens write and tweet about love, relationships and so forth. They somehow think that because they dated 15 guys, loved one screwed over by 14 they're now expert. Wait a minute. You experienced in dick not love. 

Anyway...next

THIS is why you can't find a steady relationship! It's YOU! You're unstable! Yeah, you like to call your shallow inconsistency, "impulsiveness"... Call it whatever the hell you want. Fact is, you've had at LEAST 4 fucking "flavours-of-the-month" in the short time and you think gonna find a man with all that baggage? 

Anyway... next subject

What pisses me off is women who constantly bitch and moan about how they don't like to be used as sex objects. If you feel like that, fine but you girls  have to realize that that goes both ways. You don't want to be treated like prostitutes well you have to stop acting like a prostitute. Start treating men like actual human beings and not as a means for financial gain, and maybe you will get a little respect every now and then. You want to know why you get stuck with the ass holes. Because when it comes to picking men, your priorities are assed backwards. You claim you want to be treated with with respect, then stop meeting men at clubs. You say you want a man who is working but if that guy at work who drives a Toyota looks at you too hard, you cry sexual harassment. But yet you break your neck for that bad-boy with his grandpa's Merc whose idea of a job is going to visit Tops often, who doesn't have respect for himself let alone you. You let him mooch off of you. You let him in with based on his looks or the size of his penis. Knowing damn well when you met him he didn't have a job. You knew he was an alcoholic when you met him at the bar and for every one drink he bought you he bought himself three. You knew he slept around because when you fucked him he had a wife,a mistress and three girlfriends. You knew that he was only going to use you for sex because he couldn't keep his eyes of your titties and his hands off your ass, but you fucked him anyway.You thought you could change him. And when you found out that you couldn't you say ALL MEN ARE SCUM/PIGS/DOGS or whatever else.

Girls make me sooo angry! Why do they make me angry? I'll tell you. It's because they sneak up on you when you're doing okay- never great, but stable mind you- and then they rough you up and get you thinking of bigger and better things than your previous loneliness. Then- just when you're starting to smile for no reason- they crap all over you. And the best part is, the good ones don't even realize they're doing it. I'm holding my heart in my hands and she's got no idea...

Girls do whine, moan, cry, and bitch about everything. To women everything is feminist, it pisses me off, how they can get any of us in trouble by lying and saying we are discriminating women. But, women do bring everything upon themselves, they do act like sexual objects and later on bitch on how men treat them. I am also very pissed on how women are allowed to organize bullshit rallies and claim a sexist crime to get what they want, and the other bitches(women) in office allow them to and give them whatever they want. But, what would happen if Men were to hold some rallies against anything or maybe lie about a sex crime, that's right all hell breaks loose, and they are seen as pigs. Stop with your feminist anti- men bullshit and go back to washing dishes and gardening.

Anyway...i'm out

Blackface is offensive!

Respect the position of people that aren’t you. It’s social intelligence.

It should go without saying that costumes using racist imagery should be off limits. Your costume party should be about fun and not hatred.

In 2014 no one should be telling white people that #blackface is wrong. It is offensive.  Blackface represents a time when white people would paint their faces black and act out incredibly racist and offensive stereotypes about black people. This goes back years and years ago. The symbolism of a blackface is insensitive and racist. This is a fact and it’s not up for a debate. Knowing white people when it comes to matters of race, the attitude towards blackface is that it’s just face paint and shouldn’t be taken as offensive. It’s the same thing as using the K-word and saying you not racist. Who you trying to fool here? If you racist. Be racist. That is not going to change. Don't try and justify your racist act.
What I find more offensive with this racist act is that there’s always that black person  who wants to defend such an act or defend racist offensive words. This is how black people that have gone through a weakening process think. The mind is still colonised (Gert calls someone a K-word  and Sipho his friend defends him “Gert is not racist, I’m sure he was just tired”)
Now these are the type of people that need to go through the process of Decolonising the Mind because they still see white as better, they the ones who makes jokes about black when around white people. They will do anything to fit in the “white community”. These black still need to going through that process of decolonising the mind, it is never too late. It is important to de-colonise the mind before de-colonising the body; if the mind continues to be trapped within the walls of colonial interpretations then the freedom of the physical anatomy would be rendered futile. The compulsive need to be recognized and acknowledged by the parameters of white people have to be shrugged away so that individuality and subjectivity can mature in full clarity and adequate visibility.
So, going back to the University of Pretoria with those two white female students, we have clearly established that the blackface is something that’s at its best in best taste and at worst an act of unflinching racism. Those two white students in the University of Pretoria have clearly shown that by participating in this act, they admitting that they don’t care who they offend or what symbols of oppression they perpetuate.
Blackface to me is as offensive as calling me the K-word.
Blackface was used by whites to show blacks as having social imperfection, being inferior and having a lack of mental capacity.
Some white readers here may be thinking “hey, this chap is overreacting” and some black folks may be thinking “there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s funny”. The fact is, blackface is still seen as incredibly offensive to a lot of black people.
Too often, though, it’s the offending party who tries to determine what’s offensive to subjugated groups. It’s always white people and white experts who go out of their way to convince black people not to feel offended, a basic exercise in hegemonic privilege: “ Because I don’t feel offended by it, you shouldn't either”
Offenders stand firm in their belief that they don’t care if it’s not offensive to them.

The fact remains you guys can masquerade and "make fun" yet return to your lives as a privileged racial class. Black skin is no joke. Black skin is not "funny."

It appears that there is little historical perspective here. Understand that the Blackface was  meant to portray Black people in the most demeaning light possible and you guys think we should just "get over it, its just paint."

The history we have since we first crossed each other's path has been death, destruction and desecration of what we hold dear.

Consider yourselves fortunate that many of us are sedated into "integration." 

I wonder why you ask us to "lighten up". It's because of that mentality I will remind my children and grandchildren to be vigilant in recognizing that mentality. They know that if they are ignorant of history, they are doomed to repeat it.

By the way, when you may see a refined Black man or woman who may appear educated... be aware that many of us are equipped to recognize what lies behind your eyes. Though we share the same beds and offices, we are watchful. Like the Jews say "never again"

Dear white people, if you're just dying to use paint on your faces, go Incredible Hulk on your face.

Open Letter to Edgars

Dear Sir/Madam

I acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 7 August 2013 in which for the third time, you request that I pay the monies owed to you.

I first want you to know that by no means do I
dispute my debt and I intend to reimburse you as soon as possible.

However , I bring to your attention that I have many more creditors, quite as honourable as you and whom I wish to reimburse too. Thats is why, each month I throw all the names of my creditors into a hat and draw one randomly who I hasten to refund immediately. I hope that yours will come out shortly.

Sincerely Yours,
Themba Radebe

PS: I have great regret in informing you that given the unceremonious tone of your last letter you will not be taking part in the next three draws.

Open Letter To Hoes

A Hoe Is Just A Hoe…

I'm writting this letter to all hoes. *as a woman*
(Go say Gay kunyoko)

We as women have come real far in this “man’s world”. And as usual, it takes a bird ass bitch like you to make us look bad and take us back a few years. I understand that this is your life and the way you choose to live it is on you. Since you chose to put your business in the streets, I would like to offer you some advice. You should learn a trade or something because fucking D-List rappers and bragging about it is not going to get you that paid. It might get you enough to buy some new heel from Rage  shoes and a bikini but hun, that’s about it. Being a groupie says a lot about your self esteem, you have none. There is nothing positive coming from what you do. I mean besides seeing the inside of a studio, a few texts from D-List rappers and a ran through pussy, what do you get out of being a hoe?

Be smart. You are doing exactly what these dudes want you to do. You may think you are putting them on “blast” but you are just making yourself look stupid. Sleeping with the cornballs from Kong. Sway etc is nothing to be proud of. Really. And if I were you, I would go and test.

And some of you hoes are mothers. One day This makes for great stories for your child at school and with their friends. I am sure they would be proud to announce that their mama can make Rappers and Djs Bunk Beds Rock…. #ParentingFAIL . I know times are hard and everybody needs cash but feba nge order please.

Learn a trade cuz pussy dries up.

Open Letter KaraboNYC

Thatha your links back. Amasimba

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Ngicela i Love Back

Kwathi kugamanxa ihora lesihlanu ekuseni pheliyane ukutho, ngivuka kubhakubhakuza i heart strong. Ngiphume embhedeni ngivule umsakazo ngihlale ekhishini ngididle ukip kip phecelezi ama corn flakes. Khusanjalo ngisabanga ngawe kumane kudlale uNomalanga ka Zuluboy kanti vele nami bengisane vision yobuso bakh' emva kwe spoon ekhishini ngihleli ngicabanga ukuthi why impilo injena where did our relationship go wrong, where did I go wrong? Kanti kusanjalo kumane kukhale ucingo lwami phela i ringtone yami ka Zola - Uzubuye yamashaya edeep down imane ingikhumbuze lamazwi esilungu athi appreciate what you have before its gone and wena usuhambile seku late kodwa ithemba lisakhona yona i love back ngiyayifuna. Ngiwabonile amaphutha ami sengihlezi ngedwa endlini yangasese.

Sesikhuluma iqiniso wena Thandolwethu ngiyakudinga in my life, lendaba yokuvuka ngihlale ngicanga wena.  Angsakwazi nokuphuma khululeke namajita ngoba iyangidla lendaba yami nawe. Sengidabukisa okwendiya elingenastolo sadness and hunger for your love is all over my face. Ngiyakidinga back in my life Thandolwethu.
Ngyathembisa ukukuthanda ngalendleni edida unwabu lidlulwa izingane ze color blocking.
Uma futhi ngase ubuye kimi uthandolwethu Ngeke silokhu silufihla njengoglamour escratcher i airtime kaR5. Wena phela uyimbali yami iqhakaza entwasa hlobo isikhiye sokuvula iheart yakho ngisasiphethe, sengidinga.imvume nje yokusivula ngibuyisele uthandolwethu ndawonye.

Uyazi ngyakuthanda, manje nawe ngyabona nje ukuthi usangi drayisele usunqena ukusheshe usho ukuthi Themba ngyazi fela ngawe njoba nami ngizifela.
Mina Thandolwethu angiluphuphi uthando lwami ngawe ngiyalwazi lukhona. Angicabangi ukuthi ngyakuthanda kodwa ngyazi ngyakuthanda ingakoke ngi Ngeke ngiqambe amanga kuwe ngithi ngeke ngiphile ngaphandle kwakho, ngingaphile, ukuthi nje impilo ingaphileka kangcono nginawe.
Ngeke ngikuqambele amanga ngithi ayikho enye into engiyicabangayo ngaphandle kwakho ekubeni kukuningi okunye engikucabangayo, ukuthi nje imicabango enawe iyintokozo nenjabulo kimina.
Ngeke ngiqambe amanga ngithi akulaleki
ngicabanga wena, ukuthi nje ngilala kangcono
ngicabanga wena.
Ngeke ngiqamba amanga ngithi, ngendlela
engikuthanda ngayo ngingatshela umhlaba wonke ngoba angeke ngikwenze lokho, kodwa umhlaba ozozibonela wona ukuthi ngiyakuthanda. Ngalokho futhi ngizishaya isifuba.
Thandolwethu uthandwa imina wena. Ngicela uthandolwethu back.