Blacks are bunch of lazy people...

Cyber Junkies

South Africa is a young democracy, still in its teenage years; 15 years to be exact. The country is still reeling from thousands of years of mental/psychological, social, physical slavery, and emotional torment at the hands of former colonial masters under the ideological masterpiece - "Apartheid". Can 15 years into a democratic dispensation quash centuries of oppression? Some affluent black academics seem to think that Blacks should get over the victim or slave mentality.

In one of the lectures that I always attend at the University of Johannesburg, one of our Educational Theory B (which is part of Psychology) lecturer, Dr. Sedibe to be specific, asserted that 99% of Blacks are lazy. It was freezing on the day, the "lazy blacks" who constituted 98% of the overall attendance were in class. If there was any racist pig in the lecture, his/her stereotypic thinking about Black people and where they are as opposed to where they are supposed to be, was confirmed and perpetuated by the learned doctor. On what is her assertion based?

I think there is a tendency about us as Black people that when we become "those that got away" or affluent, we look down on those who are in the quest of making things happen. Who is making white people's houses homes? Who is raising their kids? Lazy Black people I suppose. How many Blacks work in 5 star hotels and yet cannot afford a buffet or 1 night in one of the rooms they so meticulously tidy? Who possess the wealth of this country? She, like many affluent black people, has locked her family in enclosed mountaneous areas, who do they expect to role model the 'lazy black kids'? How many affluent black people who matriculated in township schools, still want to be associated with and invest in their former disadvantaged schools? They rather associate themselves with schools where their kids are, in order to maintain their bourgeoise class.

The doctor's assertion is synonymous and can be equated to what the Australian losers and the IAAF are putting the South African athlete, Caster Semenya, through. How can a girl from the 'bundus' outdo her "masters"? She is supposed to be lazy, ill disciplined, care-free, and maybe pregnant, then she would be a typical black lazy person; but when the inverse is true, eyebrows are raised. These incidents at this juncture are indicative of the relevance of ideological principles like Black Consciousness, which aimed at instilling Black pride and encourage the collective ownership and sharing of resources; where the Talented Tenth (10%) would use their aptitudes and propencities to advance their communities (90% of the less fortunate), as is the practice with mostly Jews and Muslims.

Maybe this is just the concept of "The Wonderful I" - the other person is late, but I am delayed...