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Black & White Bigotry: FlySafair

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Dear Editor

Regarding the airborne FlySafair skirmish involving the SABC Brand Manager & outright self-confessed ANC Anointee, Beneficiary & Indoctrinee [ABI] as in ‘I’m an ANC Bitch’ reference, Nobuntu ‘Nobs’ Mkhize, that was just another case study of the commonalities between Black Educational Snobs [BES] and Verkrampte Witmense [VW], as in White Supremacists, of South Africa since the advent CODESA about 30+ years ago.

As I have experienced and observed it for many years, often than not Black People that have some documented qualification/s and White People with feelings of inadequacy, tend to share some of these attributes:

  1. Prejudice that is based on an often unfounded sense of superiority
  2. Entitlement
  3. Naïveté; if not outright ignorance
  4. Being snooty towards their fellow race group members that haven’t seemingly leveled-up to their status quo; as in money, social status, education and/or material possessions
  5. Defend each other, in some dramatic irony, especially when a presumably none or ill-educated and/or materially less well-off person from their very own race group is raising a disturbing issue against either parties involved.

Black Educational Snob, as in the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment [BBBEE] context herein, entails Nubian Africans, Coloured-cum-Khoisan nowadays, Indians, Chinese and the rest of Non-Aryan groupings. In one of my personal experiences, a snooty Black former colleague at Volkswagen in Uitenhage that clearly gets paid much better than myself, told me in my face with thinly-veiled comedic contempt that I would have been a “problem” if I was “educated”, essentially meaning being an ordinary production operator does not qualify to be respected by his delusional kind; but I brushed off that remark as being a Snob, Status-conscious and/or Shallow-minded like himself just mean the very same thing as those phenomena are fuelled collectively by bigotry, intellectual inferiority and child-like ignorance; at the very least.

Lest we forget, the majority of Black South South Africans tend to be ignorant of the fact that education has never increased anyone’s Intelligence Quotient [IQ], albeit embellishing its recipients; thus making someone with a documented qualification as being automatically ingenious if not outright wise than anyone seemingly beneath their educational status.

In the part of White, Coloured and/or Indian colleagues, some have quipped that I seem to think that I am “clever” or that “you are actually ‘smart’ for a Black man”; often meaning that I should cower when they are making disparaging blanket statements and/or thinly-veiled racist jokes about bumbling Black politicians and/or presumed ‘BEE’ millionaires in my presence.

The said Nobuntu “Nobs” Mkhize saga therefore has ticked all the ignorance boxes in the Black Educational Snob [BES] checklist, especially with the stereotype that presumes that:

  1. Western Cape Coloured people typically originate from racial & cultural demarcations like Mitchell’s Plain
  2. The wearing of expensive jewellery by the said racial group takes precedence over having a Degree or any qualification, at that
  3. The occupation of being on a flight attendant remuneration bracket does not warrant her the affordability of having a car; let alone simple treatment with human decency.

I am therefore often vilified, gossiped about and/or bad-mouthed by the post 1994 Radical Economic Transformation [RET] entitled “activists” as being jealous of other Black people’s money, an under-achiever that remains stuck in a dead-end job in a German factory, “worshipping” Whites, Coloureds & Indians and/or a moaner against “black excellence”, whenever I am pointing out such blatant disrespect & disdain towards a fellow human being.

The disrespect that is also not afforded to me is often also based on the very same said flight attendant lady on that FlySafair flight, as a prejudiced & presumed lack of shallow earthly commodities that are money, status and/or materialism which are blatantly worshipped and flaunted nowadays.

Regards

Luyanda Marlon Kama
Kwa-Dwesi, Gqeberha

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