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exploitation, apartheid and structural racism. No one has taken responsibility for this
genocide committed by whites.
History teaches us, that our collective experience as black people with whites have
always dehumanized us, robbed us of our dignity, reduced us into permanent visitors in
our own land, turned us into migrant labour, perpetual beggars and living copse.
Interestingly during the Rhodes Must Fall campaign and the subsequent defacing of
other colonial statures, the public discourse did not highlight the atrocities committed
against black people by these white colonialists. The black people that found the
statures offensive and the ideas of white superiority they represented were labeled as
senseless barbaric criminals who should be arrested. The justification was that despite
the white supremacist ideas which these individuals held and the violent land grabs they
committed, its heritage and should be preserved. In fact, a handful of whites chained
themselves onto the statures prepared to die or harm anyone who dares touch their
history.
I wonder why Professor Habib did not send a public apology to us black people when a
fourth year law student Sinethemba Memela was told by a white student I will fuckin kill
you, you black bitch! when she confronted the student about mocking the accent of a
black lecturer? Is it because it was a black student who was racially abused? I wonder
why he has not written a public apology to our outrage at the fact that at least 30 black
workers outsourced to MJL electrical, a white company by the university have not been
paid in months or that theyre not allowed into the library if they want to read and not
even allowed to use the public toilets they maintain?
I also wonder how whites in their collective conciseness justify their privilege generated
out of the indignity, dehumanization and exploitation of black people. Do they think its a
coincidence that wherever the white/black dynamic exists, the white is always at the top
and black at the bottom or is it because they, all of them in their collective
consciousness believe in their supposed superiority and hard work and that black
people are simply lazy.
I fear that Wits University punishes black radical thought, anyone who dare offends its
white established values or offend white Jews will be punished like the 11 heroic
students who put their academic careers on the line and challenged university
management for bringing its name and values into disrepute by hosting Israeli funded
pianist Yossi Reshef