Written by Maleke Montshiwagae
Some time back I travelled home for a particular commitment and as usual, one ends up interacting at various "levels" with various individuals. Also, one gets exposed to the cold realties facing one's community and which makes one feel that yes, I have escaped this condition by the needle eye or by luck. I say by luck given the process one had to go through in order to attain a colonial education that would eventually give yours truly an access ticket to the eurocentric industrial complex, and hence a higher Labour value in order to make a "meaniful" material life, while our black sisters and brothers are left to cheap labour in the agricultural industrial complex.
Two of the individuals I got the opportunity to mingle with were two young black and beautiful ladies whom by virtue of their socio-economic status, the class project locates them elsewhere on the ground! But since yours truly has had an understanding of the need to commit class suicide as proposed by Amilcar Cabral, it becomes clear that ourselves as black people in our community are separated by virtue of our locations in the agric and industrial complexes beyond which we are really one black people. The material constructions important only to the physical mortal becomes a dirty source of division amongst ourselves as a black people, very short of even connecting us at spiritual and humane level characteristic of the African classic.
In the moment of all of this, the black women are left vulnerable to the sex thirsty white men in the agric. This sex question and thirst towards black women commodities by the white Baas, arising as a result of anti-black racism as power, was at the core of the narrative by these beautiful and courageous black women.
Essentially they were slaving the land of their forefathers as commodities of Baas themselves since they were paid close to nothing, living in appalling hostels and working to remove potatoes from the ground in the burning heat. In all these conditions, Bass had the nerve to make sexual approaches claiming to love one of the black ladies. How contradictory love can be?...if one is willing to let the one he claims to love, slave and labour the land while wanting to further burden her with sex. It appears as if Baas was confused here, confusing his anti-black sex power relations with love!....
It is again a reminder of how even black men under slavery, were exposed to sexual abuses by white elite women purely because they had the power to do so, it is reported that the white Patriarchs often left their women at home as they were not allowed to participate in many activities.
Therefore these elite white women became sexually frustrated and by being in the master power position, they exercised that power through sex upon black men to pleasure themselves.
It was indeed painful to hear these horror stories in 2016, the condition of Black women exacerbated by lack of access into the industrial complex in the absence of education.
Our sisters will continue to appear as sex beasts and objects in the eys of the agric Baas..... if nothing is done
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