04/11/2015
ON STUDENTS PROTESTS, LAW,
VIOLENCE AND MEDIA BIAS!!!
Posted by Mayihlome News
Ever since the commencement of
student protests, beginning with Wits
university on Wednesday the 14th of
October, which has now, a week later,
spread to UCT, Rhodes and other
institutions, the students have had to
undergo a trial by white media where
they are scrutinised for behaving
“violently” or breaking certain laws.
Questions on legality of certain actios or attempts to enforce on them certain
apartheid laws of 1959, to nullify their
cause, has been the order of the day…
so has been attempts to label them as
being violent (in the same fashion that
the Marikana miners and many other
struggles were branded violent) in
order to distract focus on their
objectives and purpose of revolt. Now the white media thinks we do not
know their age-old tactics, however
we are going to debunk the whole thing now, for they no longer hold clout to scare us on what they report.
The Law and its Oppressive Nature
You see, people most of the time,
because white supremacy has
enforced it this way, fail to distinguish
the difference between law and justice.
But the truth of the matter is that
Roman-Dutch law has always been
unjust, instead it is used as a tool of
oppression wherever it has been
implemented. Slavery was legal,
lynching blacks was legal, apartheid
was legal, so was killings in the 1960
massacre and 1976 uprising. By no
means did it make this just. Mangaliso
Robert Sobukwe taught us that you
cannot implement an unjust law justly.
It is by the same logic today that the
students have taken to protest,
because the laws that are always used to oppress blacks are yet again
prevailing. Laws that allow whites to
keep 87% of the land, laws that allow
whites to still keep 95% of the
economy in their hands, laws that
allow whites to commodify education
and make it de facto inaccessible to
blacks, whom they are shunning out of
the economy. The same laws that by
these stances, have allowed the
dehumanisation of blacks through
landlessness and poverty, to continue
unabated and yet are ironically hailed
by the world as the “most progressive”
constitution (of course the world in this case means white world, Europe,
which sees nothing wrong with the
systematic oppression of blacks).
So we are not going to be dictated to
by oppressive laws – which are in
place to protect our oppressors – on
what to do, how to go about and how to behave in freeing ourselves from the oppression that is maintained by the very same laws. It must be understood that only revolutionary law reigns in our cause and nothing else.
Media Bias
The bias of the media is nothing new, it has been prevalent for centuries and it prompted this analysis by Mark Twain: “Do not read the newspaper and you are uninformed, read the newspaper and you are misinformed.”
The media has always been an outlet
of dispensing propaganda to twist
public opinion to favour the owners of
media outlets who are the ruling class,
that is obviously white (Tony O’Reilly
media empire comes to mind). This is
why on Wednesday the 19th October
1977 the apartheid government issued
a law yet again, that banned black
consciousness groups and media
houses; so their undiluted propaganda
could prevail in painting them as just
while demonising black people. Such led Malcolm X to brand the media
as the most powerful entity in the
world, for they have the power to make the innocent look guilty and the guilty look innocent. Students must therefore not be surprised when white media houses and publications label them as savages, uncivilised, violent and whatever else. They are only
continuing a job they have been doing
for centuries in dispensing propaganda that attempts to justify black oppression.
On Violence
When Maximillen Robespierre speaks
on the ex*****on of Louis XVI after the
1789 French revolution, he states
beautifully that Regicide (the killing of a king) is not justified by showing that
the king committed some crime
against the people. The very existence of a king is a transgression against the freedom of humanity; therefore the violence of the people against a monarchy is always defensive.
White supremacy is a monarchy unto
blackness, feeding off blackness to
sustain itself very much like Louis XVI
and Marie Antoinette’s monarchy
sustained itself on the back of French
peasants in the late 1700s. Therefore
we needn’t justify any action we take
against white supremacy in any form,
because the very existence of white
supremacy is a transgression not only
to the freedom, but to the very
humanness of blacks. Any action taken by blacks against white supremacy is defensive; and by that stance it is already just and justified.
The second part is that whites have no moral ground speaking about non-
violence, when white supremacy is the most violent thing the world has
known. It is whites who killed over 200
million blacks during the course of
slavery, through the most brutal
methods known to mankind. It is white
people who used black babies as
alligator bait, made human leather from the skin of blacks, castrated blacks, burned them, had them ripped apart by stallions running in opposite directions (depicted in the Levi Strauss – Levi’s logo). The same whites who chopped up blacks and buried them in mass graves during apartheid, who shot at unarmed students, who threw people
out of skyscrapers and labelled it
su***de. Why must the very same
people speak about non-violence? Who are they? When they have wiped out whole tribes off the face of the earth in the Americas and Australasia.
Today they say they are going to Australia where the population is 90% white precisely because they found
Aboriginal Australians and wiped them
to near extinction; even issuing hunting licences permitting the hunting of the Aborigines until as recent as 1975. We will not be told by whites how to behave in freeing ourselves from their oppression, or how to unleash black anger from generations of oppressed
forefathers crying for justice in their
graves.
Lastly, we do not owe whites
forgiveness. It is our onus to forgive or not to forgive, and we will not forgive until our land and economy is back in our hands. Even then, we still are not obliged to forgive, for we learn from Maximillen Robespierre yet again that to punish oppressors of humanity is clemency, to forgive them is cruelty.
Why must we then be cruel to
humanity when we can serve
restorative justice? We will decide
then!
Conclusion
Whiteness must be very afraid,
because black anger will reach boiling
point in the not-so-distant future. We
will mete out justice on a grand scale,
revolutionary justice. That white boy in a corsa bakkie who drove into students at Empire road in an attempt to run them over was beaten up to send a message that white bodies are not above the violence that white
supremacy metes out to blacks on a
daily basis in all its structural and
institutionalised forms and states. The
students prayed for him and his
vehicle in charismatic fashion to
exorcise him from the grip of the
demon of white arrogance that made
him think he could just run over black
students because in his worldview of
whiteness black people are no different from chimpanzees. This is why whites as late as the 1960s still kept human zoos. However, we will exorcise this demon, the charismatic power of revolution is on course and no one is above it. No demon of whiteness shall stand in its way, for each and every one that attempts to stand in the way
shall be guillotined.
