"XENOPHOBIA": A FLAGRANT AND MALICIOUS MISNOMER TO BLACK-ON-BLACK VIOLENCE

Black on Black violence, craftily and meticulously coded "xenophobia", a deliberate, deceiving and malicious misnomer to the current unfortunate and news making Black condition in South Africa, should from the bird's eye view be understood and dissected within the context of white supremacy system as one of the most important substances brought forth and harvested by its social engineers and scientists. Understanding the psycho-dynamics of white supremacy, understated white racism, it would seem that with the ultimate decadent manifestation of self-hate, that the so-called xenophobia is, this anti-black system would have either earned itself eternity or an assurance to longevity.

Since, history bears witness, this goliathic system's survival depends on the vastness or the extent to which Blacks and other non-whites hate, negate and annihilate themselves, it stands to reason that the spawning and nurturing of Black self-annihilation would appropriately most probably be the duty of those with vested interests- a white racist/supremacist society.

Given the above, a question may arise; how is this malady possible under the 'black government?'. It would seem that our struggle has either been hijacked by sell-outs posing as revolutionaries or naïve people who lack a deeper understanding of the dynamics of white racism/supremacy and its magnitude and effect on the victims. Since 1994, with the proclamation of freedom which has revealed itself a 'free-doom' on our people, all emancipatory programs, purportedly aimed at empowering our people, ever implemented by the social reformers, lacked the moral content evoking a sense of purpose and alignment with the impartation and instilling of knowledge and consciousness of being to our people. Our people were given a husk without the kernel. Our wound has been treated as though it were not a wound at all. Our problem is not purely economical, we are not mere economic forces as materialists would suggest, we are also moral agents as spiritually composed.

Among the so-called 'Black middle class', into which former freedom fighters have been fashioned, there is a tendency to deny the well known, at least to the mentally liberated, antecedents of Black-on-Black violence, that are rooted in white racism's devastating legacy or overlook and blurring its continuing impact on the Black population. Black self-hate manifested in what is coded 'xenophobic attacks' in Alexander, Diepsloot and elsewhere in South Africa and the rest of the Continent has, at its matrix, racism and psycho-social conditioning going hand-in-hand, and underprivileged young Black males appear to be the most bitter incubators of this venom.

Apartheid South Africa had always embraced materialism and individualism as integral components of its racism. Having internalized a shallow western way of thinking with its capitalist values, our people have become reluctant to challenge the powers that be because doing so is tantamount to challenging themselves. However, the anger subsists and is now being misdirected.
I think it's about time that true revolutionaries rise and pick up the baton to conscientize the colonized black minds and redirect the focus of our people to real issues of the struggle pointing out who the real enemy is. The foreign minds we posses make us see our own brothers from the other parts of the continent as aliens. This implies that the real enemy has found a safe hiding place in the recesses of our souls. A black man in South Africa is taking instructions from the fugitive he is hiding in his mind, an anti-Black mindset causing him to hate anything that looks like him. It is also time to chastise the black leadership that operates within an individualistic, self-serving paradigm.