Written by Maleke Montshiwagae
There is a lot of noise being made around current political developments with SONA in the mix, rightfully so and it should be so. . But less noise is made about the people central to all of the noises, and those are the ones trapped in the black grammar of suffering, the black people that is! . . .
We are very good indeed at understanding constitutional processes, parliamentary decorum, procedures and processes of how the honourable should be treated and respected etc. etc. that too is ok you know
But how many of us understand the procedure to attaining of the black people and I mean here, the wretch of the earth, the "black human" status?
how many of us understands the constitution of a "black being", in other words what constitutes it as opposed to what constitutes "black the man"?.. .
just like the SACP's misunderstanding of the black program in that, they seem to imagine the political "black object" as having been ripped off labour power, little do they know that no, the black object has been ripped off its "black human" status! . .. It’s not surprising that their centrality is black the worker, rather than black the human or the being! They do not seem to differentiate these two together with their mavarara friends. They are probably blinded by their Marxist obsession as opposed to if they were to be black conscious! . it's really not surprising at all .
Fanon in his writings speaks of race as a vertical distribution of values within humanity in which "black the human" is absent or does not exist, and black is a sentient placed below. . He [Fanon] further continues to say that if blacks were to acquire these values, humanity would expand into a shapeless, worthless and incoherent mass. In other words, for human relations as it stands to continue to be valid, blacks must remain below this vertical distribution of human values as a dehumanised entity! Therefore, blacks faces two very important unethical structures, one being the political economy where the "other" is the worker and the other one being humanity, where the "other" is the black.
Our current government seems to concern itself with maintaining of the unethical structure of political economy where jobs are the main focus and talk of the SONA, where infrastructural developments focuses on creating more workers the "other" in which the black is interchanged with the worker! . . Under these circumstances, the unethical structure of humanity is untouched, perhaps for the fear of expanding the whole of humanity into a shapeless, worthless and incoherent mass as outlined above. . . the black grammar of suffering must maintain human relational symmetry here! . .
This approach by the government of the day is actually an anti-black approach because it actually promotes structural racism.
Steve Biko assists us in his analysis of racism as follows: that racism is discrimination and subjugation:
Discrimination having to do with exclusion of the black, while subjugation has to do with submission enforced over 500years, power and control of the oppressed. Therefore racism is not only a prejudice issue but has a lot to do with human power relations, which is how whiteness was enforced to eliminate blackness.
The only way to can restore the black to a human recognition level would be to collapse the anti-black structure, the structure that thrives on the basis of the absence of the black human, and that structure is the anti-black-white-world structure that is so obsessed with capita relations that the fundamental human relations is ignored.
This, as one writer indicates, should not be the redistribution of capital like the ANC did with their RDP programme and many others, it should be a violent collapse of capita relations and refocusing on uplifting the black into the black human status.
I'm not talking here of assimilation of black into whiteness through white culture and values, it should be antiracism not non-racialism preached by liberals and Mandela. Because it is said that non-racialism is bringing together of superiority and inferiority complexes into an integrated complex that essentially maintains the status quo under white supremacy structure. .. Therefore antiracism is the way to go.... Once the anti-black structure is destroyed, we can then start from scratch.
Until this can be achieved, even our liberal constitution will talk of human rights as opposed to a human discourse that attempts to restore black the human!
Our battle is not a human rights battle; it's a battle to restore black humans into the vertical distribution of human values!
Mandela misled us with his statement: "I fought against black domination and white domination"
Black domination cannot exist under the context of colonialism and apartheid!
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