Nigerians and Black people around the world fought for the freedom of all black people in South Africa. Black Africans are still fighting for their freedom in Africa. Xenophobia is a side effect of Apartheid, metropolis of illusions, invisible NO BLACKS or DOGS signs, Uncle Toms paraded as leaders while cleaning their masters kitchens. – @OgbeniAyotunde
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You ain’t wrong! (You left out “No Irish”. It’s: No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs” to complete the phrase from the North London bording houses of the ’60’s and ’70’s). The poor don;t get enough chance to travel and the rich are dangerous (In South Africa) because they don’t do enough about housing etc. Apartheid is sleeping, not gone.
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In a way you’re right. Apartheid is not dead, it is being perpetuated by the new Black elite, mostly politicians.
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Hmm…the words we both use…they carry personal connotations to both of us, separately. The press doesn’t help either. Prejudices don’t help either. I could say “I don’t like Bathonians (people from Bath, in general” and I have openly, (Conservative British bastards) but that isn’t xenophobia because in my eyes it is THEY who are xenophobic and i am the stranger. But there would be two sides to the coin again. So let us be peaceful in our choice of words. I’m part Irish, part gypsy. Big deal. Oh well. There’s no place like home. Enjoy the sun, buddy.
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I have to admit, I’m very prejudiced… against politicians of all colours.
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You are absolutely right Bioman, I visited South Africa (Johannesburg, Cape Town and Sun City) summer of 2001 and I sensed black South Africans felt out of place, I believe it would have been no different than when African slaves were set free in America 150years ago.
Africans who find themselves explaining to their African American brothers and sisters that our ancestors did not sell their ancestors into slavery and the propaganda given to us in Africa that African Americans are violent is just another tool of slavery (divide and conquer). It is a policy to keep Africans and African Americans divided and have the successful ones enslaved to the system.
You see African American Billionaires like Oprah, Bob Johnson, Michael Jordan etc keep their billions working in America to build America while rich caucasian Americans keep their billions in Europe and tax shelters around the world. That kind of misplaced patriotism is why Africa is underdeveloped and a form of xenophobia.
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On the subject of violence – I have experienced more thuggery at the hands of the British whites in Bath than I ahve experienced in Johannesburg, Philadelphia and London and New Orleans and everywhere else in the world, and I have travelled on my ass, not wrapped up in the cotton wool of taxis and expensive hotels. British whites are violent. No wonder they love war so much. On the subject of the only Afircan country I know well, South Africa, I went back after a prolonged absence in 2002 and i was very disappointed in what I saw. I had become used to the British way of small economically viable housing….and what I saw in SA made my heart sore. nothing that I thought had been Winnie Mandela’s promise had come to fruition. Poverty and homelessness. The white economic rule – in this case “white” not indicating race but the “white” of the educated class, with their hands clean. I wanted to rip it up and start again.
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Thank you for the knowledge Bioman. How much of what is going on in South Africa do you believe has to do with not having capable black leadership considering the transition from Apartheid? BTW just a few weeks ago the Oba of Lagos also made an inflammatory statement against the Igbos in Lagos.
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I Believe that the right wing whites of South Africa said a figurative “fuck you” to Madiba when he did not take a war stance upon his release from prison. The South African war machine was prepared for it and it would have resulted in a slaughter of many. As a consequence, with the support of the neo-cons of the rest of the world, they retained their hands upon the economic power of the country. Nationalism is the enemy we all must fight as we bring down borders. Pity the poor boat people crossing the Mediterranean to Italy.
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Thank you truly “bring down the borders”
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A picture is supposed to be worth a thousand words. I appreciate your colorful display of Africa in your photos. I appreciate even more your concise statements regarding social issues affecting us all. Xenophobia is in all of us and stems from our own fear in a chaotic world. We must become strong and secure from within before we can help our fellow human beings.
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Thank you so kindly Peter, I truly appreciate you. You know I have not looked at it that way It sure is a chaotic world where politicians believe the only way to survive is through aggression. How much do you think religion plays into this.
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Religion indeed plays a large role. Too big a topic to discuss within the context of exchanging comments. Thank you for your reply!
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Thank you Peter.
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How have we become so intelligent without learning anything about humanity?
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Intelligence actually is a blinder to humanity, you see the more intelligent man becomes the more religious beliefs and humanity will fade. Those supposed to show humanity are the most inhuman.
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Lennymaysay – this isn’t MY blog, but watch the Brit tv program “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” sometime, or the Guy Richie Movie “Snatch” with Brad Pitt, with a few “pikeys”, and form your own opinion. There are alot less traveller sites in the UK now.
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Ogbeni – I was PAC when I left SA, not ANC. Biko, not ANC. I took my meagre belongings and I left, preparing for the best. Instead….geographical isolation plays into the hands of the white right. I have raised a fist in defiance at a white South African policeman and found myself in a Mental Hospital in Port Elizabeth only two years ago with my non-white brothers and sisters. This is not a game I play it is serious. I BELIEVE in my mind in a manner that requires myself to forget what I am. I am no’ a agoin’ to say anything about the US since I know it not, not compared to SA and Great Britain, but…I will say this…offshore accounts do not make for a greater union. They make for a diaspora of confederate souls who eat, steal and drink themselves into a stupor while around them all are suffering. It is a commonplace phenomenon and I preach that it is forbiddon to happen. Yet tax shelters continue to found like Dubai where P Obama has so many golfing links (if you’ll excuse the pun) and I’ll bet there’s alot of South African money there too. Just as there is in the UK, in particular I think of one Barclays Bank and de Beers for instance, to say nothing of the SAB. Beer huh and champagne lifestyles on beer money, if you’ll pardon the old adage. So pleasant talking to you, Mr Ogbeni my friend. Bruce
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Thank you brother.
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The Follow through – I can’t resist.
The follow through of what I said is this: I believed there would be a war in South Africa when I left. I did not want to be part of it and to fight for the apartheid army. I joined the anti-apartheid union Natfhe in London and worked as a slave for the mentality that it should be ended and yet it did not. It continued. It continued for a decade and then Thabo mBeki got in and he got threatened. And then Jake. Now it is all gone, The enflavour of the past is gone and instead we have slavery and more enslavery of the youth to the drug they love – no not dagga, but love. Love for their country which is pitiful. It is pitifulto hear the chant “Proudly South African” on the SAA Airbus of British make. To hear the end of the game shall be the white dominance in the media again. I wish it had been a war and Nelson Mandela as I shall call him should have been remembered as a soldier and not a confederate of the cause to free the African slave and open the border to the European national in search of sun anda few kite flying missions. I wish it should be so. I wish it should but it ai’t. It ain;t and my heart reeks of it, It reeks as I remember what I ahve said and what it has been. Now I wish it to be a better place than it is and I hope it shall. For in the end it shall eb the end of the time and the end shall not be a better one it shall be a worse as i grow old and hope that it shall come a reckoning for the bastards that made me do what I did and leave. I did and i stand by it but one day I shall write a book that shall make them stand and be awake. I hope. I cry for me, not my country.
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