anti-Black progressiveness

Written by Maleke Montshiwagae

"black issues can't be lumped into progressive issues, gay issues, women issues, or even a religious issue. Race issues in this country is very specific and we need to address these issues as such.

a solution that does not address black people directly are solutions we should abandon, including this ridiculous progressive argument that West makes. a black person has been the face of global racism, that's all you need to know, this bullshit West is talking about is distraction! . . we need to focus on black politics, not this progressive bullshit". . he said. ..

after I read this comment from a black brother in America. .. I thought to myself that in South Africa we have in respect to Afrophobia, that. ..

suddenly even across the media houses like radio we have the "stop xenophobia for the sake of human dignity" kind of pronouncements!.... tv distributing similar sentiments. ...

soldiers and police being sent into inhuman hostels housing black people under inhuman conditions and I thought what a contradiction. ... who are these humans for whose sake xenophobia needs to stop? ....

we have some kak political diplomatic act of militarizing the black environment that is already in an inhumane condition for black people to leave in via the hostel dwelling. ... black people were assaulted, they had to get out of their crowded rooms only wearing shorts pants into the corridors, doors were kicked down in the middle of the night etc. .... even the minister of defence saying that "those people" must know that the soldiers do not know how to handle people nicely so they must be careful!

the remnants of the global racist and antiblack system of whiteness manifesting as Afrophobia, .... and the black government trying to diplomatically respond by showing the "world" or should I say investors that they can further dehumanise the black soul on tv screens as assurance that Afrophobia is been dealt with! . . remember how they killed black people in marikana to show white capital that they could deal with the black issue?..

we have similar progressive and bullshit technical arguments around how to control Africans into African countries etc. .. but no one speaks black politics of the situation. ... look at how black people are drowning in the Mediterranean sea in search of better life in Europe? ... the very conditions created by global racism they have to flee. ..

I recall the Nigerian Boko Haram abduction of the kids were the whole of the progressive world were calling for the USA to send troops to deal with boko haram and also bring back the girls campaigns mushroomed all across.. that would surely support the militarization of Africa project by the evil US whom are actually the fundamental cause of Africa's problems and thereby giving themselves a better military control over African issues and thereby recapture. .. were are those progressives as we speak?

the solution therefore to Africa questions is not some progressive arguments such as good governance and border controls, but reference to getting rid of global racism and therefore capital whose foundations are the suffering of African as the "other", just like we saw in the inhuman hostel . .

don't tell black people that we are all humans because we are not, otherwise we wouldn't have to have a constitution to tell us that! . .... we are black people and our issues must be dealt as such. ... once that is done we can then come back to the human issue. ..

... ... black first