Former DA leader Tony Leon recently caused a public storm when he told us that Mmusi Maimane’s leadership of the party was an “experiment gone wrong”.
Even the bluntest minds among us understood what Leon sought to communicate: that the DA will never again install a black stooge at its helm to appease black people. In short, to hell with black people!
The expression of anger by the black commentariat has not shaken Leon; his message was meant to assure millions of his white followers that their party is now back and safe in white hands.
You can fault Leon for many things, but you cannot accuse him of dishonesty. Even when Nelson Mandela was still SA’s president, Leon rallied white people to “fight back”.
The problem with us South Africans is that we are a politically correct and dishonest bunch. We say one thing in public when we believe in something else. How many white people claim to love Mandela compared to those who voted for him? If you loved him, why did you not vote for him? Indeed, it would be hard to find a black person who loved Helen Zille and did not vote for the DA.
Thankfully, people like Leon do not waste time pretending; they practice what they preach. When they feel the urge to “fight back”, they say so. When they regret an experiment gone wrong, they call a spade a spade.
The truth about the majority of white South Africans is that they supported apartheid, a system rooted in the idea of white supremacy. The attitude of white supremacists is that black people are things to be experimented with, not complete human beings capable of independent thought and action.
Such is the mentality that has undergirded all white ideologies in relation to black people since the early days of white settlement in SA.
The early Dutch saw black people as slaves to be subjugated. With their condescending pretentiousness, the English converted black people from slaves into proletarians – to toil in English- and Jewish-owned mines as “free” labour.
The question animating white politics in SA has always been the same: How can a minority of white people control the black majority?
Throughout the ages, white liberals, like Leon, have regarded themselves as the smartest. They have advocated for the dissolution of all national groups so that they, liberals, can remain at the top. They use subterfuges like “meritocracy” to conceal their position of power.
It is not true that liberals in SA never subscribed to nationalism; they even fought wars against the Afrikaners and Africans to advance English national interests. The Jews among them, like Leon, have not forgotten their Jewish national heritage. Study them carefully, and you will discover the permanent threads they have devised to maintain their national unity.
Poor Maimane; he submitted himself to be experimented with, thinking that he was a real leader of the DA. Conspirators like Leon have always viewed Maimane as an “experiment”. Let us be honest: most white people in SA have never liked the idea of being led by a black person. Where there is black leadership, they walk away. Look at football, for example. In politics, white people never vote for a party dominated by black leaders – unless they control such a party.
Something must be said about the ANC and how it has opened the gates for all manner of racists to come out. The greatest crime the ANC has committed against black people is to prove that all white stereotypes about black people are true.
Leon is now proud to insult black people because the ANC has become so corrupt that it is difficult to argue that not all black people are corrupt. The biggest enemy of black people is not Leon; it is the ANC. A black person who behaves in a manner that vindicates racism is worse than a white racist.
Here is the most important question: How will black people rescue their collective image from the mud of the ANC?
Before black people disassociate themselves from the barbarism of the ANC, racists like Leon will continue to pick and choose who among black individuals can be used as an experiment – to be dumped when things go wrong.
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